Easter Sunday and all the big supermarkets are
closed and it was exactly the same ritual performance as last year, it’s what I
call the Easter Sunday parade, with hundreds of cars full of desperate retail
junkies driving round looking for a supermarket that’s open for business.
They just can’t believe that they dare have
the audacity to close their temple of consumerism just when they want to go
shopping as they usually do every single Sunday.
They don’t just look at the car park,
see it’s empty and realise the store is closed, and drive away, nope they have
to drive right up to the store entrance and stare at the locked doors with wide
open mouths.
They actually form an orderly queue to do
this and then they all drive off to the next supermarket down the road to
repeat the mournful ritual. It seems that they just don’t know what to do with
their sad selves without their Sunday shopping fix; wonder what they did before
the stores started Sunday trading!
Sunday shopping seems to have replaced
church services and even the great British pub liquid lunch to become
some people’s sole source of a social life. Whole family's
seeking the great nirvana of retail therapy clog the aisles as they engage in epic
gossip sessions with others who they only ever see in the hallowed retail cathedrals. Pity the poor layperson who actually just wants to dash in and out
and grab a quick bite for lunch. None of the gossip congregation will give an
inch to let anyone else past them and will use their empty shopping trolleys as
a weapon to stop the philistines from invading the hallowed ground.
We taxi drivers could make lots more
money if our phone operators just didn't tell customers that the
stores were shut. We could then just take them on a nice leisurely trip
round all the closed supermarkets and then back home again, but that’s bad
public relations so we don’t do that.
It’s still a great pity though eh!
