This is the shocking moment a monitor lizard was found inside a supermarket in Thailand.

An employee heard a noise from one of the shelves and discovered the reptile wandering into the shop in Chumphon province in the south of the country on November 7.

Footage shows the animal resting inside one of the racks. Moments later, a woman tried to shoo it away, but it remained still.

A woman is heard saying in the vide: ‘Where are you from? This is a store. Where are you from? My God! Do you want to eat something? Look! Something has entered the house.

'Don’t eat my cat. Pick the cat up or it will get startled. Go to the back of the house or you might get hit by a car.'

Two men then guided the monitor lizard out of the establishment.

No injuries were reported from the encounter, which was similar to an incident in April 2021 in which a 5ft lizard knocked food from shelves at a shop on the outskirts of Bangkok.

Asian water monitor lizards normally live in canals, swamps, sewers and ponds in cities in Thailand. They feed on fish, snakes, frogs and scraps of food left by humans.

The reptiles are aggressive when threatened and have a mildly venomous bite which sometimes carries harmful bacteria. The Godzilla-like reptiles are also a protected species in the country so their population thrives.