Everything that is said on social networks about how to flirt on Mercadona deserves a sociological study. The meeting is at 7:00 p.m. -there is no scientific or romantic explanation- you have to put on the best clothes (or at least try), take the shopping cart, stop at the fruit section, catch a pineappleput it face down in the cart, check an aisle, whether it’s frozen or wine, bump into someone and… boom! let the magic happen. The networks have been flooded with ingenious videos from Internet users who have shaped this story built in recent days in TikTok, Instagram and Twitter.
It took 10 days for the video in which they star Vivy Lyn, actress and comedian, and her colleague and friend carlagive a different twist to the seduction rituals. Although Vivy confesses to us that she would not go to the wine aisle to flirt, but rather to the ice cream ones because it is more about love for life than fleeting flirtations. It is more likely that you will find your other half looking for the pizza or the frozen fish that you are going to take for dinner than to find your ideal partner in the wine aisle, because with a glass you will quickly forget: collapse it and the fish is still fresh, these are loves that last forever, you can have a fish until 2034 and it is good”, explains the actress from Malaga.
Sometimes time can be the friend or the enemy of the human being, Vivy knows it well: “There are things you wait 25 years for and others that happen in a week. I have been an actress for 25 years and you work, you search, you try to find the flaw and it is difficult for an entire country to see your work,” she tells us in a telephone conversation. Today, her video, which, adding up the visits on all platforms, could have reached 50 million views, has not spread like wildfire only here: it has also reached the United States, the United Kingdom, Colombia and Argentina. Not yet in Asia, but upon her arrival the actress promised to eat sushi to celebrate, even if she does not like it. Vivy, before doing this interview with us, went nonchalantly to the supermarket to do her shopping; People already recognize her and stop to greet her, this time a Mercadona employee:
-It was you!
-I don’t really know how to apologize.
-What’s up! If we’re having a good time, people come and make their videos, they don’t even bother us. It’s fun for us too.
Now that the uproar that has been created on the networks has calmed down, in recent days the idea has been growing that this is a marketing strategybut Vivy denies all these claims and even reveals that an establishment contacted her, but she has not received any news from Mercadona. “The one we confused, another supermarket called me, but not to hire me just to congratulate me. If I had been asked and if I had the ability to do what I did, I would be rich. That’s where it comes in. [en Mercadona] How could he fit in a cafeteria? We happened to be there,” says the comedian.
It all came about because she and Carla had gone shopping after work and, at one point, Carla told Vivy that there were people going to supermarkets to connect. They searched on Google because they needed to make sure and, bingo, they found that it was 7:00 p.m., and at that moment, five minutes after the indicated time, they saw the sign to make an anecdotal video. “We make a lot of videos like this, we work on television in the program ‘La Tarde, ici et maintenant’ by Juan y Medio on Canal Sur, we like to laugh, We help alleviate loneliness, we experience it every day and we did it as a joke because even in a dry puddle we laugh,” explains Carla, who works in the production of the Andalusian magazine, in a telephone conversation with ABC.
No one wants to be left behind in the world we live in. If a trend is created, a multitude of replicas will quickly emerge so as not to go out of style and ride the wave; The same thing happened with the video of Vivy and Carla, because to find the origin of this art of seduction We have to go back seven years in the “First Dates” program. A client confessed that her mother scolded her because she was looking for love “very quickly and “anywhere.”
Carla says that to find love it is not necessary to look at the car, or at least she would not, because the important thing is to know who drives it. On the other hand, Vivy would take into account the purchase, it would have to be varied and not only with wine and pineapple for which there are even shortages in some establishments because of this joke: “I would look for a cart with more movement, his good meat, his good seasonings and a good quality oil for these times,” laughs the comedian from Malaga. “With laughter we are half paid. If it translates into laughter, spectators, public and affection, then it is the best payment,” says Vivy Lyn because, as Carla, his adventure partner, corroborates, “we need humor because the problems” come alone.
