Sweeping up

A faux tweet got snarky about so-called strategy on Supermarket Sweep. I shouldn't have been so sarcastic. After all, the Sweep was one of the very few shopping game shows I've ever been interested in.

Truth to tell, the pricing rounds bored me, as real-life shopping does. It's a male thing with me, I guess. But the stunt at the end of the show always got my attention. Who wouldn't want to careen wildly through a store and scoop up all the goodies in sight?

Supermarket Sweep proved to be a remarkably durable format, enjoying an extensive revival in the 1990s and 2000s after the original version from the 1960s had long since vanished. Maybe other people enjoyed the same fantasy of grabbing as much merchandise as possible from the shelves.

GSN is rumored to be looking at revivals of lots of old game shows, depending on how their new Pyramid fares with the Nielsen Company. Maybe they might think about sweeping through a new supermarket.