I often buy my lunch at Sainsbury’s in Nottingham. It’s a five minute drive from the office and the nearest place where you get a choice.
bad for you food - and we'll pay you to eat it?
This week I picked up my pack of sandwiches and some Tropicana – and got to the till – to be told that this was a mistake. It was cheaper if I added a bag of Walkers crisps. 40p cheaper. It was very good of the nice lady cashier to point this out – but perplexing.
Being the health conscious freak that I am I took the crisps and saved 40p. I was going to throw the crisps away and save myself the 181 calories in the bag. But I do quite like salt and vinegar flavour crisps – and it can’t be right to throw away perfectly good food?
What about the homeless folks who are trying to scrape together enough to buy some basics?
Has the world really gone this mad. It’s known as a ‘meal deal’ – but where is the logic? I’m being encouraged to eat something I don’t necessarily want or need – in exchange for saving money. I have tried to think through the logic from Sainsbury’s perspective – and, hard as I try, I can’t follow it.
There are millions of people starving to death in the world and I’m certainly not. But I’m being paid to eat food…
Can anyone explain this? Have I missed something here?
PS I promise I’ll drop the food theme tomorrow – back to property!
