In order to offer single people a platform to get to know each other in Corona times, an Edeka store manager in Lower Franconia has come up with a single shopping day.
Volkach
- home office and curfew, contact restrictions and closed cultural and catering establishments.
The
corona pandemic *
condemns people to stay in their own four walls.
Especially difficult for people living alone because not to get the camp fever.
In order to use the last bastion of interpersonal interaction possibilities so as not to go to waste at home alone, an
Edeka store manager
in
Volkach
in Lower Franconia
has now
considered
a
single shopping day
.
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“I still know that from the disco,” says
store manager Christoph Kolb
when he
explains
the concept of his
single shopping day
to a
BR
reporter
.
At the entrance area every Friday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. people looking for a partner can grab a heart with a number and stick it to their jacket.
“If
you notice
an attractive
single
with a number
while shopping
, then you have to remember the number.
At the till, you can
leave
a
message
for the chosen one
with your own number
, ”says Deputy Store Manager Steven Schellhorn, explaining the
rules of
the
game
.
Whether the principle can be also transferred to a supermarket from the disco between "cucumber and corn flakes," the reporter asked the
store manager
.
Sure, there are a lot of older people who are
single
, Kolb replies.
And what about the younger generation, the next question follows.
“The youngsters have their tinder and everything,” countered the
Armor from Edeka,
quick-witted.
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In fact, during the interview there are two
single men
who want to try out the single exchange 2.0.
Customer Alfons pulls with the number 50 on his heart
Come on.
“I'm already looking everywhere,” he says euphorically.
And while the untied man is pacing through the market, the reporter asks the butcher shop assistant how the
concept
has been received so far.
“Nothing has happened yet.
That would have to happen too.
And now at
Corona time *
anyway.
Somehow you have to find a partner. ”
The journalist replies
that there is hardly any
romance
between schnitzel and ground beef
.
“Not with the meat, but maybe with other things,” countered the saleswoman in her relaxed Franconian way.
Alfons is on the freezer for chips and croquettes.
He has already
spotted
a
nice lady
.
“She's already laughing.
She's already seen my number.
It's a bit like dancing in the past, ”says the customer with number 50 happily. The reporter leaves open whether something has developed between the two of them.
He
meets
the second
single man
again later.
The reason it didn't work out for him is simple.
“I don't have my glasses with me.” Difficult when you
want to leave
a message for
your
loved one
.
But he promises to come back - but with glasses.
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