And the estimated 1.2 million uk residents that live in 'food desserts' and can't take a little scamper to their nearest Tescos or Asda a to pick up tins of smart price beans. What about them?
I live somewhere that sounds similar to those. The only shop in my town is a tiiiiiiiny Co op and it's prohibitively expensive. We have a fairly large population of elderly and financially vulnerable people. The nearest big Tesco is 50 minutes away in the car (there's a smaller one closer, but that's still a good thirty minutes away and isn't ideal for a varied shop on a budget.) I'm lucky because a) I have a car and b) my workplace is near the big Tesco so I don't even have to make a separate journey, but when the buses stopped over lockdown, a lot of people were very reliant on others in the community, or found their grocery bills went up if they chose instead to shop at the Co op. I was shopping for four people, not including myself, over lockdown. Feel guilty for not doing more but I began to feel like I was living at Tesco
For that matter, the bus service is notoriously unreliable (rural area, out in the sticks) and people are now petitioning the council to provide an alternative.
I still think people here have it easier than in other places (that don't have a Co op fairly central to the town), but seeing how people have struggled through lockdown, and presumably before lockdown too (Covid has been a real eye opener) it really puts Jack's whinging about a 20 minute walk to ASDA into perspective.
ETA: I, like many other Fraus this evening, have absolutely had it with her today. It makes me sad that people like this actually exist. It's hard to see the best in human kind when you're constantly presented with evidence that, as a species, we're pretty
tit.