Unbelievable…Everyone suffers, even if you have it once a week. Total overkill
I love how choice is slowly being taken from us, like with sugar. I’m an adult, I can decide if one day i want a salad and the next a whole grab bag of quavers and an egg & bacon sarnie.
What an absolute joke.
Adult are not even allowed to make their own decisions anymore. What is this country coming to.
Edit: This is what happens when you only read the title and not the article.
“Junk food will also have to be removed from shop entrances and the end of aisles if regulations from the Welsh government are approved by the Senedd next month.”
This is completely different than banning it completely. I’ll leave my original comment to highlight that I impulsively replied without reading.
Have you seen the physical state of several members of the Senedd ?
They need to stop interfering in the lives of ordinary people.
They are trying to introduce the homelessness diet, you can’t overeat if you go bankrupt.
Look, if you are struggling for lunch just have one of your staff order it in
~ The Senedd
Unpopular opinion, but these meal deals are a scam anyway.
Effectively, they overcharge for a drink/sandwich so you sort of feel compelled to buy the snack as well to lower the price. It absolutely encourages you to take on that extra 200 calories of junk.
Thanks all for yesterday’s downvotes but perhaps this highlights the fact that we have a dictatorial government in Cardiff with no effective opposition.
I’m very confused cos the headline talks about meal deals but what’s actually described has nothing to do with meal deals. It’s saying they can’t display junk at tills and they can’t do BOGOF deals.
Ok, so its takung crap food away from the worst poimts that parents face when they take kids shopping, but the crap is still available if you want to buy it you just have to walk a little further, and it only affects big shops and supermarkets. I am having difficulty seeing a problem with this?
(I like crap food just as much as the next person by the way).
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Holy shit you people are so overdramatic. You’ll have to walk a little further up the shop to get your diabetes, grow the fuck up.
Education on healthy eating is what’s required not micromanaging a whole sector .The senedd members and workers won’t have this issue because the Senedd canteen is highly subsidised and by the way not all choices are healthy .
One rule for one ……..
Do you ever think the BBC sometimes deliberately and obviously, write headlines that don’t match the content just to cause division in the comments section between the people who derive everything they think just from the title, and people who read the whole article?
I’m serious asking this, it’s kinda dark in a sense, there’s 21 replies on here as I type this and a good half of them are arguments between these 2 groups. People fall out over shit like this all the time, what is the point? Are we being deliberately divided or is this just really shit click-bait tactics from the BBC?
It’s probably the former, but they’ll defend themselves with the latter.
Imagine a country’s health minister standing in front of a burning hospital (NHS) and telling the nation they are moving unhealthy foods away from shop doorways…Actually top trolling from the idiot.
I’m so glad the government is here to tell me how to live my life. Don’t let me learn how to make choices, just take them away from me.
Authoritarian bollocks, and they should be ashamed.
(Yes I did read the article)
Better get all this unnecessary legislation in before Reform take the senedd next election. (I’m not a reform fan but I expect the entrenched Labour elite to get a real shock in Wales.)
Why can’t you just let the people decide to pick what they want. No wonder reform is gaining ground in wales what is wrong with labour & plaid
The article says that it’s the display of the meal deals in prominent places that’s facing a ban, not the meal deals themselves.
Still, judging by the comments here, people are all too willing to believe the first thing they see and that’s why we’re in the mess we’re in.
Nice to see the Welsh government back on form tackling real world issues…
But not unhealthy NHS waiting times,thanks Welsh government.
I thought junk at tills was banned years ago? Tends to just be mints and stuff now.
So many people banging on about choice. Its moving the stuff from proven psychologically pressured display points. Its a few more steps down the aisle. Its not charging for refillable drinks so people think ‘fuck it, its free, I’ll have more’ when its **not free,** the cost was all factored in to what they charged you
Making unhealthy food the first thing you see makes it stay in your mind all round the shop. All these tactics exist because they successfully manipulate the mind.
Bogof offers make you buy twice the amount. Want 2? Great, buy two. Meanwhile, there are other ways to put items on offer. Price reductions. Extra % in the packet. Vouchers. Nobody is banning your favourites. Just banning a psychological sales tactic.
Bogof drives loyalty because customers have 2 lots to work through before they buy more. Half price means people think ‘this cost less last week’ Plus they know damn well getting 2 at the same time means its eaten faster
Nothing done by millionaire CEO companies is done with the little man in mind. Its all to drive profit and drive consumption.
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Unbelievable…Everyone suffers, even if you have it once a week. Total overkill
I love how choice is slowly being taken from us, like with sugar. I’m an adult, I can decide if one day i want a salad and the next a whole grab bag of quavers and an egg & bacon sarnie.
What an absolute joke.
Adult are not even allowed to make their own decisions anymore. What is this country coming to.
Edit: This is what happens when you only read the title and not the article.
“Junk food will also have to be removed from shop entrances and the end of aisles if regulations from the Welsh government are approved by the Senedd next month.”
This is completely different than banning it completely. I’ll leave my original comment to highlight that I impulsively replied without reading.
Have you seen the physical state of several members of the Senedd ?
They need to stop interfering in the lives of ordinary people.
They are trying to introduce the homelessness diet, you can’t overeat if you go bankrupt.
Look, if you are struggling for lunch just have one of your staff order it in
~ The Senedd
Unpopular opinion, but these meal deals are a scam anyway.
Effectively, they overcharge for a drink/sandwich so you sort of feel compelled to buy the snack as well to lower the price. It absolutely encourages you to take on that extra 200 calories of junk.
Thanks all for yesterday’s downvotes but perhaps this highlights the fact that we have a dictatorial government in Cardiff with no effective opposition.
I’m very confused cos the headline talks about meal deals but what’s actually described has nothing to do with meal deals. It’s saying they can’t display junk at tills and they can’t do BOGOF deals.
Ok, so its takung crap food away from the worst poimts that parents face when they take kids shopping, but the crap is still available if you want to buy it you just have to walk a little further, and it only affects big shops and supermarkets. I am having difficulty seeing a problem with this?
(I like crap food just as much as the next person by the way).
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Holy shit you people are so overdramatic. You’ll have to walk a little further up the shop to get your diabetes, grow the fuck up.
Education on healthy eating is what’s required not micromanaging a whole sector .The senedd members and workers won’t have this issue because the Senedd canteen is highly subsidised and by the way not all choices are healthy .
One rule for one ……..
Do you ever think the BBC sometimes deliberately and obviously, write headlines that don’t match the content just to cause division in the comments section between the people who derive everything they think just from the title, and people who read the whole article?
I’m serious asking this, it’s kinda dark in a sense, there’s 21 replies on here as I type this and a good half of them are arguments between these 2 groups. People fall out over shit like this all the time, what is the point? Are we being deliberately divided or is this just really shit click-bait tactics from the BBC?
It’s probably the former, but they’ll defend themselves with the latter.
Imagine a country’s health minister standing in front of a burning hospital (NHS) and telling the nation they are moving unhealthy foods away from shop doorways…Actually top trolling from the idiot.
I’m so glad the government is here to tell me how to live my life. Don’t let me learn how to make choices, just take them away from me.
Authoritarian bollocks, and they should be ashamed.
(Yes I did read the article)
Better get all this unnecessary legislation in before Reform take the senedd next election. (I’m not a reform fan but I expect the entrenched Labour elite to get a real shock in Wales.)
Why can’t you just let the people decide to pick what they want. No wonder reform is gaining ground in wales what is wrong with labour & plaid
The article says that it’s the display of the meal deals in prominent places that’s facing a ban, not the meal deals themselves.
Still, judging by the comments here, people are all too willing to believe the first thing they see and that’s why we’re in the mess we’re in.
Nice to see the Welsh government back on form tackling real world issues…
But not unhealthy NHS waiting times,thanks Welsh government.
I thought junk at tills was banned years ago? Tends to just be mints and stuff now.
So many people banging on about choice. Its moving the stuff from proven psychologically pressured display points. Its a few more steps down the aisle. Its not charging for refillable drinks so people think ‘fuck it, its free, I’ll have more’ when its **not free,** the cost was all factored in to what they charged you
Making unhealthy food the first thing you see makes it stay in your mind all round the shop. All these tactics exist because they successfully manipulate the mind.
Bogof offers make you buy twice the amount. Want 2? Great, buy two. Meanwhile, there are other ways to put items on offer. Price reductions. Extra % in the packet. Vouchers. Nobody is banning your favourites. Just banning a psychological sales tactic.
Bogof drives loyalty because customers have 2 lots to work through before they buy more. Half price means people think ‘this cost less last week’ Plus they know damn well getting 2 at the same time means its eaten faster
Nothing done by millionaire CEO companies is done with the little man in mind. Its all to drive profit and drive consumption.
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