Although thE supermarket was open, it might as well have been closed. They only had emergency power and that was prioritised to keeping the chillers and freezers running. It was chaos at the checkouts with no power. The staff shone a torch to enable them to read the barcode since they couldn't swipe them across the sensor. This had been ongoing for an hour because the member of staff who knew how to restore power was on a skive and they were having to wait for someone from another branch to get there. The staff were having to write down each barcode number on a piece of paper. They then had to agree an approximate price with the customer and write down their details to enable them to settle up later. When each bill was agreed, it was put on a spike. Most of the customers simply left the store and went elsewhere. At last the person from the other store swaggered in, dressed in a long raincoat with suede shoes, looking very pleased with himself. He quickly got the power restored, but then the poor staff had to go about entering all the bar codes in and generating all the proper till receipts and attempting to contact the customers to settle any differences.
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