Is the Grocery Store the New Meat Market for Singles?

Singles are picking up more than just groceries at their local market. A place where even the frozen food section can sizzle. Remember Steve Martin in “My Blue Heaven?”

”You know it’s dangerous for you to be in the frozen food section. Because you could melt all this stuff!”

While that’s Hollywood, it is happening at Whole Foods Market in the Pearl District, especially among shoppers in their twenties and thirties.

"I see them definitely looking their best sometimes and spending a lot of time looking at each other instead of the food they're buying," said Suzanne Strick with Whole Foods Market.

Weekends are better than weekdays and if you’re looking to check someone out, hit the fruit and vegetable section.

"Produce seems to be the place where people will scope each other out," said Strick.

That’s where Andy Frend made his move.

"She was looking for celery and I sort of said 'Who cares! You got nothing to lose!,’” said Frend.

In fact, Frend is now gaining a wife. His walk down the produce aisle turned into a walk down the wedding aisle.

“We’re getting married in October,” he said.

"The stigma and the pressure is kind of removed when you're looking for produce or cereal. I think it's easier to approach people to see if there's a connection," said Strick.

There’s no guarantee that meeting someone in a grocery store will lead to marriage, like it has for Frend. But he says why not give it a whirl?

"The worst thing is you're going to flatter someone by asking if you can call them and the best thing is my situation," he said.