RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31543, 4 December 1967, Page 20

RANDOM REMINDER

LOST AND FOUND

The growth of the supermarket has been one of the more spectacular developments of the retail trade in the last few years. A few may pine for the sawdust on the butcher’s floor, the aroma of cheese at the grocer's, but most prefer the clinical efficiency of the modern large supermarket. Not only is it possible to buy everything from a shoelace to garden furniture; at the supermarket there is superefficient service. A newspaper reporter, assigned to cover the opening of a new supermarket a few weeks ago, took an office car for the job. When his task was done he returned the vehicle to

its parking place. A couple of days later another reporter, taking out the same car, discovered that beside the back seat was a huge carton containing a grocery order of distinctive size. It contained bacon and eggs, bread, tinned foods, biscuits, just about everything a young bachelor reporter needed. But he dutifully took the carton in to his chief reporter, and there it stayed, there being no equipment available for cooking up a savoury midnight supper. But while some searched the lost and found advertisements, others, with a sound training in domestic science, carefully repacked the

stuff so the soap would not taint the jam roll. It was all sorted out, in time. At the opening of the supermarket, a young assistant had cheerfully taken a women’s order and put it in the wrong car. The woman had come back and complained, and had been issued with a duplicate set of goods. The supermarket management was advised and came back to pick up its goods from the newspaper office. So everyone won out in the etid, even the bachelor reporter, who saw the docket in the carton, and was so- appalled by the total at the bottom that he has been confirmed in his beliefs about matrimony.