Supermarket dating, where single person can check each other
out via the contents of their baskets, flirt(调情) while weighing vegetable and
even walk down the lanes of the market together, is coming to Paris. Lafayette
Gourmet, the food hall at the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris, is
about to unleash(释放) the (47) on the worldwide capital of
romance. Single shoppers will be (48) on Thursday evening by
special purple shopping baskets (49) with a cartoon of a
kissing couple, and (50) a glass of champagne and a free
photograph if they succeed in picking up a (51) mate. "We
noticed that we have an evening client group buying single portion of
(52) food, so we decided the demand is there," Lafayette Gourmet
Director Sylvain Gaudu told reporters. Paris, home to around 900,000 singles,
many of whom are (53) working hours as long as in London and
New York, has already been introduced to speed dating and online dating. The
"dating market" shopping evenings, an idea (54) from the
Netherlands, will be jointly run with Yahoo, which already has an online dating
service in France. Once shoppers have made eyes at each other through the cereal
packets or brushed past each other at the cheese counter, they will be able to
chat each other up in the (55) for a special checkout
counter (56) for them. A) queue
F) offered
K)
reserved B) increasingly
G) concept
L) potential C) familiar
H) identified
M) unique D) rarely
I) opposed
N) unfortunately E) imported
J) decorated
O) fresh