There's now a permanent Stalker-themed supermarket in Kyiv where you can buy Stalker brownies and more
Everyone knows the best part of Stalker is the groceries. Sure, I vaguely recall something about fending off armies of mutated horrors with clanky old Warsaw Pact rifles, but I think most of my time in those games was spent frantically scarfing down doktorskaya sausage while bullets whistled overhead and hungry beasts tracked my scent.
It's for this reason, I have to assume, that the latest step in GSC Game World's marketing campaign for Stalker 2 is a Stalker-themed supermarket in eastern Kyiv(opens in new tab). Filled with produce themed after the games (alongside completely standard fruit, veg, and meat, which is possibly even weirder than the Stalker brownies) and decorated throughout in post-apocalyptic rust-chic, the new store promises to let you do your weekly shop while reminiscing about all the times you hunkered down in a drainage pipe and cured bullet wounds with bread. You can see a few photos of the store below.
The supermarket is the product of a partnership between GSC and Silpo, a chain of Ukrainian stores that specialises in themed experiences like this one. In the past, Silpo has built cyberpunk supermarkets, anime supermarkets, in one instance (which I'm not convinced isn't a fevered invention of my own dying brain) even a store themed around GTA: San Andreas(opens in new tab). It's permanent, too; GSC's Zakhar Bocharov tells PCG that the supermarket is no fleeting pop-up: «It will be around for, like, forever. As long as the shop is there, it will be a Stalker-style shop».
Like so much else, the store's opening was disrupted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February this year. In fact, although the supermarket already looks plenty Stalker-ish to me, there are still elements of it that haven't been
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