Doug Marr: There’s nothing super about supermarket shopping

Somewhere in our subconscious lurks the primal fear of not having enough to eat. It’s probably a throwback to our hunter/gatherer ancestors. For them, failure to waylay an unsuspecting hairy mammoth could have dire consequences for the entire tribe. Feeding the Palaeolithic family was a matter of personal responsibility. Otherwise, they would starve.

The, Doctor