Found poetry:the shopping trolley aka shopping cart, you may find a gem of a post-modern poem
Our daily narrative is compiled in many ways. Smartphone voice notes, emails, text messages, doodles.
A satisfying post modern past time (often forgotten) is to write or find a handwritten shopping list. An insight into daily lives and requirements to function and enjoy the luxury of choice.
Have you thought about how you write a shopping list?
The waxed Volvo shopping list
Do you think about layouts of shops before writing a shopping list? This where the list becomes your map and you can navigate around the aisles picking off the lists items o.n a linear shopping journey.
It matters to these types of list writer that the list is fully functional and fully ordered and doesn’t deviate.
It doesn’t help if the supermarket rearrange their shelves and the ‘planned GPS written shopping list falls apart and anxiety sets in. Its like flying a hang-glider with no previous experience.
Here’s a shopping list I found on top of spinach bags in the supermarket
I like the question mark after fruit. I also like how the shopping list starts healthy the progresses to alcohol (prosecco, British champagne). It seems fairly organised in to 2 columns . I’m wondering which 2 veg was chosen.
You might write randomly. Ungrouped ‘prodjuice’ and consumer products. Randomers divert, backtrack, panic, revisit the same aisles and get stuck in the matrix of the supermarket in search of a precise item. It doesn’t matter that the list is written asynchronously. The end result is the same.
A shopping list: typographic poster poem
Prepared preformatted shopping list pad
Found this list and interestingly uses 2 different colour ink pens alternating between black and blue.The unused boxes could be used for a numeric data for the number of items required or to tick when the item is put in the basket. (or a X if th item is not available). Maybe the owner lost this list and that’s why the boxes were never ticked.
Wondering what ‘Salad - All’ refers to and why frozen peas, raspberries and fish cakes begin with lower case letters when the rest of the list items begin with upper case. Its a conundrum working out the reasons why.
