On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 13:23:02 +0100, S Viemeister
> wrote:

>On 8/7/2019 10:00 AM, Bruce wrote:
>> On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 09:22:17 +0100, Janet > wrote:
>>
>>> Last time we had a major power outage (whole island) supermarket
>>> tills stopped working, so couldn't be used to pay with either cash or
>>> cards. Also all the windows are at one end of the store and most of it
>>> was pretty much in darkness.
>>>
>>> The manager issued torches to the staff and made all essential
>>> goods available to locals "on tick". Customers waited outside, handed in
>>> a written shopping list with their contact details on it, staff fetched
>>> the goods by torchlight and handed them over, no payment required. After
>>> the shop re-opened (on generators, the next day) we settled up our
>>> shopping lists.
>>
>> Did you all sing authentic English folk songs as you walked back to
>> the supermarket?
>>
>Unlikely. Scottish folksongs, perhaps...

Ok.