Outside on the pavement, they had plentiful supplies of broccoli, potatoes and other vegetables and a supermarket trolley piled high with rucksacks, a couple of guitars and a dog named Zeus.
When you hear the words "pasta salad", it's hard not to think of those little tubs at the supermarket, bound in a mayonnaise-like substance, the pasta overcooked and chilled to a tasteless mush.
Who knows, in years to come goat may be as ubiquitous on supermarket shelves as New Zealand lamb.
Wetherspoon is stepping up its efforts in the breakfast market to counteract slowing sales growth and what it says is the malign effect of cheap supermarket alcohol on the pub trade.
Activists, trade unionists and supermarket workers have launched a campaign to highlight low pay and "in-work poverty" at Sainsbury's, one of the Paralympic sponsors.
The chickens were apparently a reference to a 2010 stunt carried out by Voina, a radical art collective to which some Pussy Riot members previously belonged, in which a participant stole a whole raw chicken from a supermarket and inserted it into her vagina.
Deborah was talking about the kind of charity that shakes a tin outside a supermarket, or does a bungee jump, or sets up a direct debit.
Of course, that doesn't mean you never get good bargains in the supermarket; simply that you need to take care in choosing.
Second, my hard-bitten journalistic instincts were immediately replaced by full-scale embarrassment about walking around a supermarket filming things like some sort of obnoxious oaf.
She said: "Consumers will be appalled to learn that ministers have repeatedly failed to take any action to tackle the alarming levels of campylobacter in supermarket chicken.
The supermarket is currently offering £55 off your first five grocery shops at waitrose.com – £15 off your first and £10 off your second, third, fourth and fifth shops.
