TikToker reportedly rents out supermarket to avoid ‘germy people’, but insists she is not a ‘germaphobe’

A TikToker from America has revealed how she reportedly rents out an entire supermarket for an hour to avoid what she describes as “germy people”.

The account, named @ItsACreteLife and run by a woman named Emma, has more than 38,000 followers on the social media platform. Emma describes the profile as “my snarky place” for “adding sarcasm to our lives”.

Explaining her shopping routine, she said: “We do go shopping just like everybody else – we’re normal people. We’re actually pretty well off, and we use that to our advantage.

“We actually rent out a grocery store, for one hour, one day a week, before they open. We pay the grocery store to sanitise everything and let us be the only people in there shopping, so we don’t have to be in there with other germy people, y’know?

“We also do this so [our daughter] Crete can have unique experiences,” she said.

Sure enough, in a follow-up video, Emma shared a short video of what appeared to be a quiet and deserted supermarket.

In response to another question from a commenter, the content creator confirmed that her approach to germs also extends to restaurants and that they don’t visit them – adding that “if you knew what goes on behind the scenes in a restaurant, you wouldn’t either”.

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And if you’re wondering how much it costs to rent out a supermarket just for yourself, she said she wouldn’t do it “if we weren’t rich” and that it is “pretty pricey”.

She continued to say that it would be cheaper to do it in the evenings after they’ve closed for the day, but claimed that that “doesn’t fit our schedule”.

As for how they can afford it, Emma claimed that her husband Luke “got rich off a lottery ticket” he won at the age of 19.

While she did not disclose the exact sum won by her partner, she stressed it was “a lot” – if that is to be believed.

Yet despite all the time and (apparent) money spent securing a supermarket for themselves for an hour, the mother insists that they “are NOT germaphobic”.

“We just don’t like germs,” she clarified.

Sounds like a germaphobe to us, Emma.