Comedian visited 1,000 supermarkets - here's his favourite
Comedian visited 1,000 supermarkets - here's his favourite
Craig Buchan - South EastSat, May 30, 2026 at 10:18 AM UTC
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Dan Kelly is performing a show in Brighton about his experience visiting over 1,000 supermarkets
A comedian has turned his experience of visiting "over a thousand" supermarkets around the world into a show.
Dan Kelly, from London, will perform How I Went to Every Supermarket in the World at Brighton Fringe on Saturday and Sunday.
Despite visiting shops as far afield as Pacific islands, he said his favourite remained "the shop at the end of my road".
"They saved my life on every occasion where you're trying to cook something," he told BBC Radio Sussex.
The comedian's international supermarket tour was part of a job collecting data, which he has done for the last decade.
"Any company sending people abroad for work would want to know how much to pay them," he explained.
"My job was to travel to major cities around the world and find the prices of day-to-day goods and services."
Kelly says he had to find the price of the same 164 items at every location he was sent to.
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"I go to sleep reciting them, I wake up reciting them," he said, which could be "quite tedious".
But he told the BBC the job "did have its perks" and he "wouldn't have done it for so long if it wasn't fun".
Kelly said the performance is "a bit of a life show as well as based around supermarkets"
Kelly said any supermarket "that has good, clear price labelling is a friend of mine".
On the other hand, some island supermarkets reliant on big shipments could be "packed with stuff" one week and "completely empty" the next.
"I've turned up at some and their shelves were totally empty," he said, "but the flip side of that is obviously I get an afternoon off on the beach."
Kelly said his life experiences over the last decade were also reflected in the show.
"It's tracking someone who didn't know what they wanted to do, has found something full of purpose, and now has come out the other side and is moving on to different things," he told the BBC.
"It's a bit of a life show as well as based around supermarkets."
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