On 10th August 1966, Mr and Mrs Buzidragis and their son Joe, winners of America’s Supermarket Sweep, repeated their prize-winning feat at a branch of Tesco in Brixton, London. The Buzidragis family from Hartshorne, Oklahoma, were ‘the world’s fastest shoppers’, having won the title a week previously in a nation-wide shopping spree contest. In 30 minutes they grabbed groceries worth more than $4500 from the shelves and deep freeze of an American supermarket. In London they received the cash equivalent of their haul and the sponsors, Pepsi-Cola, donated the same amount of money to the Variety Club of Grant Britain.
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