WHO IS TESCO FOOLING

I went over to Tesco about 3o/c to sniff out bargains for a late lunch. Listed at £2.55 my ClubCard could get me two 180g packs of grated Cheddar for £4.50. That's £2.25 a pack ... if I buy two.  They want me to spend an extra £1.95 for an extra 180g I neither want nor need. 

Close by is a grated Leicester same price same reduction but the bag is 250g ... 70 grams more cheese for £2.55.  I took the Leicester. 

£1.95 in hand I mooched over to the cheapie shelf for babyleaf salad down to 44p from 94, hummus down to 85p from £1.40 and 'morocco inspired' couscous £2.73 down from £3.70 .. back to boat where I made up a fifth of the couscous, a bunch of cheese, a tablespoon of the hummus and had my late lunch for £1.20 ... It was divine ...  washed down with a teeny glass of Mavrodaphne say 80p? ...  grated cheese, hummus and couscous forked together and a Greek port on the side ...

 I consistently live at far less cost than most ... because I know what to buy, how much to pay for it and I know how to deal with it. 


Don't go yet

Marked increase in shoplifting ... 

Rd. Crampton Beta Male The Times 

"I stand behind old ladies in LIDL spending £20 on what looks like a weekly shop [and] paying in small change and vouchers or maybe crumpled fivers ... carefully rubbing each one to make sure two aren't stuck together ... and a hundred yards away in the cafes and delis of South Hackney youngsters 40 years off pensionable age are paying £20, but for smashed avocado on toast with a flat white." 

Two hundred yards away the same wans are paying £40 for a line of coke to help them cope with their miserable existence and these are not down and outs these are the ones who dance all night at the best raves in East London.

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