![]() ![]() I think our turkeys are in between $30 and $50. ![]() How often do people ask about what is the most lucrative thing to pull off the shelves? My mother is convinced that it's the turkeys. But I think it meant a little bit more this time around, when you saw someone make smart decisions, know their supermarket products, and thus win a big jackpot. Anyone winning $100,000 in any environment, it doesn't matter if there's a pandemic or not, would be excited. Our top prize on this show, it was $5,000 back in the '90s, but the top prize now is $100,000. I don't want to win money." So we give people that chance to fulfill a wish, to end the day with a heck of a lot more money than they started the day with. You can't really find somebody that would say, "No. Then the second wish is obviously everybody wants to win money. "Forget for 20 minutes about the fact that all of that is happening outside of our walls. I think no matter whether you win on Supermarket Sweep or you just participate, that wish is fulfilled, the reckless abandon, the notion of piling as much as you want into your cart. You can pull anything off any shelf, and stack it into your cart, and it will be yours. Or a grocery store where it doesn't matter how much money you have in your account to spend on groceries. There's an enormous familiarity with the environment of the grocery store.īut what we're not familiar with is the idea of a grocery store with no rules, a grocery store that your mom will let you, with reckless abandon, fly through and push that cart on wheels as fast as you can. One is that a supermarket is a place that we've all been to. ROSSITER: I think there are two wishes that are being fulfilled in the moment. I'm curious about the wish fulfillment aspect of the show - What is it about the idea of just being let loose inside a supermarket that fascinates you? Now, of course, it's significantly bigger. When the original Supermarket Sweep launched, it was in 1965 and the unemployment rate was around four percent. I will say we had long conversations about whether it would be okay to show the cameramen in masks, because like Wes said, we didn't want to make anyone sad, but obviously health is the most important thing, and so we had as few people as possible without a mask on. So the participants are looking like old-school television participants, and the crew behind the scenes reminds you that it was shot during a certain time in our history. So those camera people are running in the moment after their contestants. But that was only if you were a loser: the winner didn’t get to keep their shirt, for reasons that were unspecified.ALYCIA ROSSITER: When you watch it Sunday, you'll see that cameramen often make it into a shot in Supermarket Sweep, both back in the day and now, because it's live action, and no one knows whether that contestant's going to turn into the turkey aisle, or turn into the frying pan housewares aisle. ![]() If you didn’t win, you got to keep those super cool sweatshirts. In one instance Ruprecht recalls the spoiled hotdogs would ferment in their cases, swelling up the packaging.ģ. That means you probably didn’t want to dip into that peanut butter. Then the show was taped for five to six months each year, and the same food was used over and over again. Ruprecht recalls that staff for the show would go shopping once before the beginning of the season. Which makes sense when you consider that the other food…Ģ. Contestants easily tossing huge hams into their carts didn’t have superhuman strength, instead the ham, turkey and other meat wasn’t real. Great Big Story published a fun video of former Supermarket Sweep host, David Ruprecht, reliving the glorious days of the ’90s game show and giving pointers those who may still hold out hope that the show will one day return to afternoon TV.ġ. Little did I know that not everything I’d seen on the show was as it appeared. When I was a youngster, shopping with my family, I’d practice the route I’d take when I eventually got my chance at the Sweep, imagining my cart first overflowing with hams and turkeys. 11.20.15 9:36 AM EDT By Ashlee Kieler The Secrets supermarket sweep game show 90's Here's How You Win winning blast from the pastĬonfession: I was once a little bit obsessed with Supermarket Sweep, the game show that involved little more than running around a store picking up the priciest groceries. ![]()
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