‘Buy one, get one free’ deals for unhealthy food banned in supermarkets
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89d54gv44qo
Posted by Admiral_Fish21
‘Buy one, get one free’ deals for unhealthy food banned in supermarkets
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89d54gv44qo
Posted by Admiral_Fish21
27 Comments
In the midst of a cost of living crisis, will this not simply push the poorest further into destitution?
You don’t see half as many BOGOF deals these days anyway, it’s all “member price discounts” so they can better farm your data and target their adds.
Holy fuck. Can the government just fuck off and punish bad people instead of making everyone’s lives miserable?? Why are we all being put into unnecessary inconvenience because of few brain dead people who shouldn’t be let out in the world??
Few people speed in their cars? Everyone needs to fuck up their car with speed bumps!
Few people watch hardcore porn and rape others? No one can watch porn without exposing themselves!
Few people eat themselves to death and let their children get fat? No one can eat unhealthy foods!
Few people stab each other in gang disputes? No one can buy a knife or fork without showing an ID!
Few people send dick picks on dating apps? Ban them!!
How about enforcing the law properly instead of making everyone’s lives shit???
Things like this and the attempts to expand the ban beyond just England are a very damning indicator of how out of touch politicians are with the average person.
As with the sugar tax, people aren’t buying unhealthy products *because* they’re unhealthy. They’re buying them because they’re what they can afford.
Deliberately pricing them out of their range *will* lead to less consumption of unhealthy food. But it will also lead to more people being pushed harder towards the poverty line as their shopping bill increases because they’re not actually making the healthy food cheaper. So the unhealthy food will become more expensive than the healthy food, but the healthy food will remain above current unhealthy pricing.
What is it with this country’s obsession with nanny statism?
Government should have bigger priorities than this.
What a waste of time.
I haven’t seen a BOGOF for ages in a supermarket
I’m a 40 year old 6ft man who weighs 12 stone 8 and can run 5k in just under 20 minutes, I’m already angry about the sugar tax that means I have to pay more for real coke, if I want to eat 2 family sized bars of dairy milk in one sitting I’m going to
I can’t remember the last time I saw a BOGOF offer
I genuinely don’t think I’ve seen a buy one get one free deal in at least 10 years.
This government is really pissing me off, it’s amazing that I can even say that after 13 years of Tories
Nice underhanded way to continue the messaging that poor = bad choices. Comment sections shows its working well.
Always being punished because of the lowest common denominators can’t be trusted to look after themselves or their children
This is like when they imposed sugar tax. All it does is make poor people poorer, because people need b better education around healthy eating and how to make healthy meals.
Mind you, fresh produce is so expensive now, even if there was more education around healthy eating, there’s a strong chance people wouldn’t be able to afford the ingredients. It’s quicker and cheaper to buy a ready meal.
Instead of raising prices or stopping deals on unhealthy foods, they should make healthy options more affordable.
So, to get people to buy your stupid unhealthy shit, double the price and mark it as “buy one get one free” to force them to buy too.
Good ban, but it just depends on what they define as “unhealthy food”
lol there haven’t been BOGOF deals for years, it’s all 5p less then RRP if you have a loyalty card and £6 more if you don’t.
The british government and banning random shit, name a more iconic duo
So now they will just offer 100% more in a pack for a limited time only. That 4 pack of snickers is now an 8 pack, for the same price.. they’ll be chasing their tails on this one.
Has anyone ever seen Starmer and Farage in same place at the same time? Because I’m waiting for the Scooby Doo moment when they pull off the mask and find Starmer is really Farage.
Banning shit for law abiding citizens? so cheap and easy!
Actually making positive change in our society? Nah, sounds long and boring.
Someone in the comments trying to blame the NHS for bans on BOGOFs. Some people live in a warped reality 🤣
I wonder if it’s possible to ban our way to a healthy, rich, happy utopia? Every day a new ban. Exciting times.
Sometimes this sub shows just how far from the electorate it is in terms of opinion.
Yes, weight management and treatment is a huge burden on the NHS, but the vast majority of people aren’t in that category, nor will they be for a very long time. The majority of people affected will just feel the pinch in their pocket. They won’t pick a healthy option, nor will they be thankful for the health benefits that come. This will just be the next in a long line of things that have negatively impacted them – whether it’s awful produce quality, rising costs, rising energy costs, rising taxes, rising costs of meat, etc. It’ll be yet another overreach from a Labour government, who in six months have stopped you looking at porn, want you to get a national id, and now want to stop you eating Jaffa Cakes.
This has been said for YEARS now, but the only way you’ll get people to eat healthily is to subsidise healthy food, and promote meals that will save money and provide all the nutrients you need.
I’ve said this for years – don’t incentivise unhealthy food. But I reckon the “unhealthy” part is going to be difficult to pin-down.
I also wish they’d ban deals on alcohol that encourage you to buy more. Waitrose often shove up the prices of wine and then a few days later launch “Buy 6 get 25% off” so you have to buy six bottles to get them at the normal price. Make them cheaper, fine. But don’t give me any incentive to buy more than I intended to… because if I buy it I drink it.
And I also think half bottles of wine should have to be half the price of a full bottle, 70cl gin 70% of the cost of 1 litre etc.
I’m of the opinion that if the government put the onus on food manufacturers rather than the consumer, making it so that food manufacturers were forced to cut the sodium, sugar and saturated fat content of their food products, and increase the fibre content; we’d see a steady improvement in public health.
Currently, we just add taxes on to unhealthy foods like sugary soft drinks, and as seen with alcohol, sin taxes are effective at raising revenue, yet do little to combat consumption by the consumer. tax revenue isn’t ringfenced for certain things anymore, so the money raised isn’t going to the NHS to combat alcohol/sugar related health issues anyway, just to the governments centralised coffers.
I haven’t seen BOGOF in a while. It’s usually some variant of ‘N for the price of N-1’ or ‘N for £x’ – occasionally without price per 100g/item not showing.
Concentrate on the price gouging, the Clubcard/Nectar discounts, and price differences between the big and small versions of the same shops.
They just do 50% off now instead which is the same thing. But BOGOF worked more in favour of supermarkets since they guarentee two sales instead of just one.