Prime minister, just a shopper!

It was around eight o'clock in the evening at supermarket Food Town Mount Eden in Auckland on July 19. I was on the queue towards a checkout to pay for my groceries I had in a trolley. When the lady just in front of me reached the checkout after staying on the queue for at least 10 minutes, the checkout operator surprisingly looked at her face for a few seconds and then said to her, “You look like Helen Clark”. Guessing his implied question that if she was Helen Clark, she simply replied to him, “That's right”. Yes, I then noticed that she was New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.
She was in casual jogging dress. There were no security personnel, no aides or assistants, no party men, no journalists, no camera crew she was completely alone and just a general shopper. Other shoppers were also not found interested in her. Only the checkout operator, a Bangladeshi national who is personally known to me, got excited seeing her on his checkout probably because he was a new migrant in New Zealand and from a different socio-political system like Bangladesh.
The New Zealand Prime Minister bought some personal and family items that included a cooked half chicken which was on sale for a discounted price. After making payment, she walked out of the market holding her shopping bag in her hands.
Later, the checkout operator quoting his workmates told me that the NZ Prime Minister often comes to this supermarket for shopping as she lives in the same area. I also noticed that nothing was published or broadcast in New Zealand newspapers or electronic media about the incident because it was not newsworthy as it was quite a normal part of daily public life!