Supermarket under the hammer: everything has to go at Real in Bayreuth - and why calves are happy about it

Created: 01/18/2022Updated: 01/18/2022 12:42 p.m

By: Thomas Eldersch

The inner workings of a Real supermarket were auctioned off in Bayreuth.

Over 400 items went under the hammer.

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A supermarket closure is never easy for the employees - for others, however, it awakens a gold rush mood.

This is what happened at a Real supermarket in Bayreuth.

Bayreuth - What remains when a supermarket closes its doors forever.

Lots of empty shelves, deserted aisles and resourceful bargain hunters.

Because after shopping is before shopping.

At least that's how it went at a former Real branch in Bayreuth*.

After the last price hits ran off the assembly line, the assembly line was sold at the same time.

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Bayreuth: Real market closes forever and sells its interior

421 items were on the auction list of the Nuremberg* company "Restlos", which took care of the clearance of the Real supermarket in Bayreuth. Among them were obvious goods such as rummage tables or forklifts. As an extravagant customer, you could even hit the neon letters of the company logo - whatever you need them for. Such products are often misused, as Anton Blättler, who organized the auction, knows. He revealed to

what crazy ideas many of his customers come up with when it comes to old supermarket interiors.

For example, the shelter for shopping carts would enjoy great popularity.

Farmers and gardeners in particular like to strike here.

Some turn it into a greenhouse for growing vegetables at home.

The others use the shelter for their calves so that they can stay dry when it rains.

"There are often uses for things that you wouldn't even think of," Blättler told

.

Bayreuth: Employees lose their "family" with the store closure

The former employees of the Real branch watch with tears in their eyes as their former job gradually ends up under the hammer. “We look at the empty shelves and know what it was like before. Now everything is gone," says Sabine Schiller, who sold meat loaf rolls at the "hot" counter, to the

. "I've been here for over 20 years," explains Sandra Murger. "You lose your family. It's a really stupid feeling."

For many employees, however, it continues in other jobs.

A fresh start for both the staff and the interior.

The company "Restlos" has to share the profit of the auction with the company Real.

If a product has not found a lover, it will be disposed of properly.