What a nice gesture – hopefully other big corporations follow suit and do their part to support vulnerable groups.
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Oh yes brilliant let’s help the pensioners and boomers that voted the torys into power and created this whole mess, what about the rest of us?
Children should get this deal. Too many people with kids can’t afford to feed them properly
Asda a currently in the process of cutting the £1.50 driver premium, giving them a pay cut.
They are the lowest paying out of the big four supermarkets. They don’t care about the cost of living crisis for their staff.
Reading this literally made my eyes well up with tears. Our country is so fucked up right now, that ASDA has to step up, and help people.
I don’t deny it’s good PR for ASDA, but it will also genuinely help a lot of struggling older folks. It’s a stain on this government, and the Tory party, that we’re all in this situation.
It doesn’t have to be this way. We can, and should be, doing better, for everyone.
I’m so bitter at this point that any assistance for boomers while young people suffer makes me fucking furious.
It’s not me, I want everyone to be OK. I’m reaching the edge of my limits though.
Just wait for the report in the DailyMail of some over 60 rolling up in their Range Rover, parking up in the disabled spot and pulling out a large flask for the soup.
I genuinely hate hunger at any level, as somebody who grew up in that kind of environment its trapping to say the least! not getting into the whole subject but when we live in the same country that can put on a display like the Queens funeral surely we can do better when people need help to eat!
If they lowered their prices ( all supermarkets) they’d be helping everybody this winter.Instead of pulling p.a stunts like this, whilst still making a huge profit
Love it how the class war is dominating this thread. And not the total and utter failure of our government to reign in excessive corporate profit.
Not profit, excessive profit.
Please for the love of god can other people point this out.
Realistically old people have dreadful bladders so after the soup they won’t want unlimited teas and coffees. While they’re at Asda they’ll also stock up on overpriced Mr Kipling cakes, luxurious toilet paper for their withered nether regions and pearl barley. Genius marketing tbf.
People getting worked up about who voted for who to cause inflation, let the old dears have a quid cuppa tea ffs 😂
I’ve got to admit I wasn’t prepared for the backlash that this article would cause. It looks like the start of a civil war
Why just offer this to certain groups when people in all age groups are struggling though
This is quite sad. All politics aside we have old people essentially keeping warm in a heated shelter because they can’t afford heat or food.
They’ll survive the winter just to vote Tory again in the next GE. Fucking fantastic
Asda providing better elderly support THAN OUR OWN FUCKING GOVERNMENT. Let that shit sink in.
As much of a nice contribution this is, it’s really just an optics thing considering the fact that asda have increased their prices faster than other supermarkets. Especially for what used to be their smart price range.
The smart price replacement has a smaller variety of products and they charge more.
For example smart price frozen cooked and peeled prawns was 400g packets for £3.50. The replacement is 250g for £3. That’s an increase of £3.25 a kg.
The also got rid of the cartonned juice from concentrate and have reduced the range to just apple and smooth orange
They should offer them some Jamaican ginger cake since they have an extra one that they missed off my order the other day.
Ahh yeah, the statistically wealthiest people in the country. Nice.
I’m sorry but my parents are both over 60, still work, don’t have a mortgage, have a huge pension probably and plenty of savings. I need help far more than they do.
No fucking wonder the elderly vote Tory when this is what they get for it.
Aren’t over 60s the wealthiest age group by far, nowadays? We’re not in the 80s/90s anymore. The boomers have been feasting.
What the fuck is going on in this thread?! People are actually advocating to just let old people die?! What the hell man, everyone is struggling right now and needs help. You absolute heartless bastards. You cannot criticise old people for voting against your interests when you are literally advocating that they freeze and starve to death.
I’m 26 BTW. Yes I’m mad about the tories and brexit, but the reason I’m mad is because those decisions were bad for EVERYONE, they hurt EVERYBODY.
Divide and conquer at it’s finest, have a look who asda is owned by, I’ll give you a hint it’s 2 billionaire conservative party donors.
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What a nice gesture – hopefully other big corporations follow suit and do their part to support vulnerable groups.
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Oh yes brilliant let’s help the pensioners and boomers that voted the torys into power and created this whole mess, what about the rest of us?
Children should get this deal. Too many people with kids can’t afford to feed them properly
Asda a currently in the process of cutting the £1.50 driver premium, giving them a pay cut.
They are the lowest paying out of the big four supermarkets. They don’t care about the cost of living crisis for their staff.
Reading this literally made my eyes well up with tears. Our country is so fucked up right now, that ASDA has to step up, and help people.
I don’t deny it’s good PR for ASDA, but it will also genuinely help a lot of struggling older folks. It’s a stain on this government, and the Tory party, that we’re all in this situation.
It doesn’t have to be this way. We can, and should be, doing better, for everyone.
I’m so bitter at this point that any assistance for boomers while young people suffer makes me fucking furious.
It’s not me, I want everyone to be OK. I’m reaching the edge of my limits though.
Just wait for the report in the DailyMail of some over 60 rolling up in their Range Rover, parking up in the disabled spot and pulling out a large flask for the soup.
I genuinely hate hunger at any level, as somebody who grew up in that kind of environment its trapping to say the least! not getting into the whole subject but when we live in the same country that can put on a display like the Queens funeral surely we can do better when people need help to eat!
If they lowered their prices ( all supermarkets) they’d be helping everybody this winter.Instead of pulling p.a stunts like this, whilst still making a huge profit
Love it how the class war is dominating this thread. And not the total and utter failure of our government to reign in excessive corporate profit.
Not profit, excessive profit.
Please for the love of god can other people point this out.
Realistically old people have dreadful bladders so after the soup they won’t want unlimited teas and coffees. While they’re at Asda they’ll also stock up on overpriced Mr Kipling cakes, luxurious toilet paper for their withered nether regions and pearl barley. Genius marketing tbf.
People getting worked up about who voted for who to cause inflation, let the old dears have a quid cuppa tea ffs 😂
I’ve got to admit I wasn’t prepared for the backlash that this article would cause. It looks like the start of a civil war
Why just offer this to certain groups when people in all age groups are struggling though
This is quite sad. All politics aside we have old people essentially keeping warm in a heated shelter because they can’t afford heat or food.
They’ll survive the winter just to vote Tory again in the next GE. Fucking fantastic
Asda providing better elderly support THAN OUR OWN FUCKING GOVERNMENT. Let that shit sink in.
As much of a nice contribution this is, it’s really just an optics thing considering the fact that asda have increased their prices faster than other supermarkets. Especially for what used to be their smart price range.
The smart price replacement has a smaller variety of products and they charge more.
For example smart price frozen cooked and peeled prawns was 400g packets for £3.50. The replacement is 250g for £3. That’s an increase of £3.25 a kg.
The also got rid of the cartonned juice from concentrate and have reduced the range to just apple and smooth orange
They should offer them some Jamaican ginger cake since they have an extra one that they missed off my order the other day.
Ahh yeah, the statistically wealthiest people in the country. Nice.
I’m sorry but my parents are both over 60, still work, don’t have a mortgage, have a huge pension probably and plenty of savings. I need help far more than they do.
No fucking wonder the elderly vote Tory when this is what they get for it.
Aren’t over 60s the wealthiest age group by far, nowadays? We’re not in the 80s/90s anymore. The boomers have been feasting.
What the fuck is going on in this thread?! People are actually advocating to just let old people die?! What the hell man, everyone is struggling right now and needs help. You absolute heartless bastards. You cannot criticise old people for voting against your interests when you are literally advocating that they freeze and starve to death.
I’m 26 BTW. Yes I’m mad about the tories and brexit, but the reason I’m mad is because those decisions were bad for EVERYONE, they hurt EVERYBODY.
Divide and conquer at it’s finest, have a look who asda is owned by, I’ll give you a hint it’s 2 billionaire conservative party donors.
Mohsin and Zuber Issa
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conservative_Party_(UK)_donors
Unironically the over 60s are the richest demographic.
Yet more assistance for boomers while the young struggle. I imagine this is funded by stolen wages from their workers.