Two friends were accidentally locked inside an Aldi after staff closed the store for the night.
Sarah Sinclair, 27, and her boyfriend's brother Luke Miller, 25, had popped into the Redcar supermarket for some bread and milk.
While the pair walked round the aisles, just before the shop shut, employees had seemingly finished up for the day and headed home.
When Sarah and Luke reached the checkout, they realised the store was empty and they were trapped inside, Teesside Live reports.
They were stuck for roughly 30 minutes and had to phone 101 for help before eventually escaping out a fire exit.
Sarah said that when they first got to the shop on Larkswood Road, there were still customers inside and workers manning the checkouts.
She said: We were just wandering around shopping and didn't pay attention until we went to pay and I started to think 'where's the staff'?
"Then we noticed a beeping but at the time, I just wanted my bread and milk so I hadn't thought anything of it - I had barely even noticed the sound.
"We started looking around - I turned to Luke and he said 'oh no'.
"We couldn't believe it and I was laughing so hard I thought I'd pee until I started thinking 'but what do we actually do?'."
"When all the doors were locked I started thinking I'd have to open a drink off the shelf.
"But I also thought about how there would probably be a bed among the stuff in the middle aisle so we'd be ok!"
Sarah said Luke called 101, during the incident on December 27 last year, and the police told them to try the fire doors.
She said they ended up having to go into the stock room at the back to find one that opened and they finally got out.
Sarah said the manager later called Luke into the store and gave him a bunch of flowers and a crate of lager as an apology.
She added: "At the time we had no idea what would happen but looking back we just find it funny.
"I have no idea how it happened and how nobody saw us in there because we weren't hiding - but we got out in the end!"
Aldi declined to comment.
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