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Supermarkets carried a variety of goods, described by Ianto Jones as belonging to 21st century "consuming society".
Supermarkets such as Asda or Tesco had their own brands of various products, (PROSE: Future Legend, Annabel Regina, COMIC: The Widow's Curse) and even their own best seller book lists. (PROSE: The Unhappy Medium)
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During a trip to a supermarket in the 9th century, the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones encountered a rampaging warrior called Thaur. (COMIC: Wrath of the Warrior)
Sometime prior to March 2005, the Ninth Doctor begrudgingly bought spam and corned beef for Rose Tyler from a supermarket. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
In the 2000s,[nb 1] Ianto suggested Diane Holmes, John Ellis and Emma-Louise Cowell use 25 pounds for food, and then 20 pounds for luxury goods like cigarettes and magazines. Supermarkets also sold DVDs and personal care products like mascara. Upon first walking through the automatic doors, Diane marvelled about the "bananas!" (TV: Out of Time)
Rhys Williams recalled that he had his first kiss with Gwen Cooper in a supermarket; they were in a queue when Rhys told her that he did not want to make spaghetti bolognese as he could not kiss her with "garlic breath", upon which Gwen laughed, called him "Rhys the Rant" and kissed him right there in the queue. (TV: Adam)
The Tenth Doctor visited a supermarket in London in 2010 to buy Brainy Crisps. (PROSE: Code of the Krillitanes)
In 2012, Flip Jackson worked at the supermarket Fresh Goods. (AUDIO: The Curse of Davros)
Tibo admitted that he went to a supermarket just so he could talk to the cashier, to get back to human contact, only to find self-service checkouts. (TV: Can You Hear Me?)
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Frobisher, a shapeshifter, told the Sixth Doctor he spent fourteen years in the form of a supermarket till. (COMIC: Voyager)
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The Seventh Doctor staged a rebellion with a gang of robots at an alien supermarket. (PROSE: The Shopping Trolleys of Doom)
Myriam, a hairdresser, helped the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller to rid a supermarket of tomatoes which contained an alien biological weapon. (AUDIO: Late Night Shopping)
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- ↑ Episodes 1-10 of the first series of Torchwood are set anywhere from 2006-2009 as a result of conflicting evidence shown in the episodes Ghost Machine, Greeks Bearing Gifts, Random Shoes, To the Last Man, Reset, Adrift, Fragments, Exit Wounds, and The New World. As episode 10, Out of Time, is set at the end of December, this means that episodes 11-13 are almost certainly set the year after episodes 1-10.