I've seen in Radio Times there is a new Jane Horrocks comedy on Sky next week called Trollied which is set in a supermarket. Someone correct me if I am wrong but are Tripper's/Slinger's Day the only other comedies to be set in a supermarket?
Supermarket based comedies
I can't remember which was which but I thought Bruce Forsyth did one and didn't Chris Barrie do one too?
Bruce Forsyth did one and it was garbage.
Leonard Rossiter starred in Tripper's Day. The show was remade into a vehicle for Bruce Forsyth after Rossiter's death and entitled Slinger's Day.
There was a recent one called Shelfstackers, a sort of teenager sitcom. https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/shelfstackers/
The supermarket is a relatively new concept; even describing Supafare (Tripper's Day / Slinger's Day) as one is a bit of a stretch. Shelfstackers is the closest in setting and size to Trollied.
As far as the precursor, the department store, goes, let's we turn to series like Pinwright's Progress and Are You Being Served?.
To extract it slightly, 2009's Monday Monday was a comedy-drama set in a supermarket's head office.
Perhaps a bit of a stretch but there was the Radio 4 sitcom Edge Falls, set on a big retail park.
Quote: Aaron @ July 27 2011, 7:05 PM BSTThe supermarket is a relatively new concept;
Not sure I'd agree with this. The supermarket has surely been around for 40 or 50 odd years? It certainly seems to have been a dominant presence in this country for the last 20 or 30 years. Sure, they've got bigger in recent years, but they always seem to have been there.
I'm surprised the setting hasn't been exploited more. The supermarket/frozen-food mart moments in Coronation Street in the 90s were verging on being a sitcom within a soap - as they were largely used for comic value. And they were before their time because they had no recorded audience laughter with it. Almost fly on the wall suff. Reg Holdsworth's (if I've got the name right) character would have made a fantastic supermarket sitcom manager.
Gordon Brittas as supermarket manager surely has potential. Could have just as easily been set in a supermarket as a leisure centre. Well, maybe not - but the the idea still makes me chuckle. 
I saw a bit of Shelfstackers. I thought it wasn't too bad.
Quote: Steve Charlie @ July 28 2011, 11:45 AM BSTGordon Brittas as supermarket manager surely has potential. Could have just as easily been set in a supermarket as a leisure centre. Well, maybe not - but the the idea still makes me chuckle.
He has done exactly that on training videos for the Co-op.
Quote: chipolata @ July 28 2011, 11:25 AM BSTThe supermarket has surely been around for 40 or 50 odd years? It certainly seems to have been a dominant presence in this country for the last 20 or 30 years. Sure, they've got bigger in recent years, but they always seem to have been there.
As you say, a question of scale, but quite dramatic one. I grew up in Cheshunt, Tesco's hometown, where they had their flagship store at the Old Pond. It was I think at that time the largest in the country. The Old Pond branch is still there, but it is comparable in size to a local Co-op. The modern out-of-town superstore did not come into being until the 80s. In Tesco's Cheshunt Brookfield branch you could park a Zeppelin.