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I have a friend who lives on less than 20 pounds a week in London (while paying 1500 pounds a month on rent). How does he do it? * By using perishable sale
by sireat 7y ago
I have a friend who lives on less than 20 pounds a week in London (while paying 1500 pounds a month on rent).
How does he do it?
* By using perishable sales at Tesco and other places.
* By bartering for food
I saw him pick up a bag of ripe but fine peaches for 10 pence and a 3-4pounds of chicken wings for 99 pence. Loaves of bread were 10-20 pence.
This is not easy to do by any means because the competition is fierce. The scenes are reminiscent of Black Friday insanity in US.
Shows the economic realities of living in London.
Personally, I would rather try to pay less on rent and more for food but that is not always an option.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoWe're out of the woods now it seems [no longer destitute] but the 8pm scrum at Tesco was always a bit fraught. It seems like the supermarkets don't have as many deals as much now, I suspect they donate more to food banks (they can probably write it off at a higher value than they could sell it?). Tesco in particular no longer have a "cheap" section, it remains on the shelves. I'd guess that's so that people will mistakenly buy expiring goods (netting them a higher sale price, and earlier repeat sale). All elements of the squeeze on the poor and the widening poverty gap.