The lights were on, but nobody was home.

Shoppers at a Loblaws in Forest Hill discovered this, quite literally, upon arriving at their neighbourhood grocery store on Easter Sunday only to find it unstaffed and unlocked despite an abundance of food on the shelves.

David Marchione, a resident of Forest Hill, was on his routine morning walk when he noticed people leaving the store with groceries in hand.

“There was one man with about four bags in each hand that were completely full with stuff. So I said to myself, ‘wow it’s actually open but everyone thinks it’s closed’,” Marchione wrote on Facebook. “I decided to walk inside, went up the escalator and noticed only 4-5 people in the store shopping also, lights were all on and music was playing smooth jazz.”

When Marchione tried to pay for his groceries, he noticed there were no cashiers and the self-checkout was closed.

“Turns out those people I saw with groceries literally shopped and left without paying like an episode of Supermarket Sweep,” he said. “They straight jacked Loblaws.”

In an email to the Toronto Star, Loblaws confirmed that the store was supposed to be closed for business on Sunday however “closing protocols were not completed in their entirety.”

This “resulted in a number of customers gaining access to our store,” the company said in a statement.

Marchione says he decided to return his groceries after noticing the closed checkouts, “as it was starting to feel like I was in Zombieland.” He then met a couple who said they called police to close the store.

A video posted to Reddit on Monday captured the empty aisles and checkouts, along with a photo of police on scene.

The company did not specify how much inventory it lost.