While Korean temples became a hot topic for young men and women to meet, large supermarkets are gaining popularity among singles in Spain.
According to the British daily Telegraph on the 3rd (local time), a growing number of young men and women in Spain are looking for dates at large supermarkets.
Inspired by online dating games, young men and women flock to Mercadona, a mart chain, at 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. to engage in “exploration.”
The method is simple.
Pick up the pineapple upside down from the fruit corner and move to the wine corner, and likewise, if you like someone who holds the pineapple upside down, you hit that person’s cart and “steam.”
This is an offline version of Tinder, a dating app application, that turns a picture of someone you like to the right.
The way they express their opinions is also interesting.
If you put snacks or chocolate in the cart, you want a short-term relationship, and if you put vegetables, you want a more serious and long-term relationship.
Celebrity broadcaster Vivi Lin posted a video of her attempt to meet in person at the mart on TikTok, and a love reality program cast member confessed that she was going to the mart to find love.
Since then, the store dating craze has spread to the Spanish department store Elcorte Ingles.
Here, the perfume section is said to be the meeting place between 2-3 p.m.
“It’s proof that many young people today don’t know how to start a relationship,” psychologist and head of marriage brokerage Laszos told France’s Anpo. “Loneliness is becoming the pandemic of the 21st century.”
SOPHIA KIM
US ASIA JOURNAL
