People who shouldn't buy from the reduced section.

[Squiggs]

I suppose people should be labelled then?

 

Like the kids who used to sit on the free school meals table and be identified as such? People should be visible by scavenging in a section just for them?

[cgksheff]

For anyone in dire hunger through a shortage of cash ... there will usually be far cheaper, more nutritious, goods in the supermarket compared to those on the reduced counter.

 

Anyone short of cash should be be down at Castle Market towards the end of the day buying a sackload of veg and a couple of marrow bones.

[Penistone999]

 

To avoid food being wasted, it could be distributed via foodbanks to the poor.

 

But he bought them to eat ,so they obviously wernt wasted.

[chem1st]

I suppose people should be labelled then?

 

Like the kids who used to sit on the free school meals table and be identified as such? People should be visible by scavenging in a section just for them?

 

Poor people are already labelled and verbally attacked. They are also physically attacked and killed. Poor young men are much more likely to be killed for example, and over the past 30 years, the chance of them being murdered has risen massively whilst falling for all other ages and sexes bar females under 1.

 

We lack progressive taxation and a citizen income in this country, so the poorest already suffer. People shouldn't add to their suffering by exploiting the things they rely on, in order to save a few pence. Especially those whom benefit from the persecution and taxation of them (in this case the police).

[Longcol]

 

That 1% of shelf space has a very quick turnover. Shelves full of goods that do not shift can't really be compared to shelves that do in terms of shelve space.

 

Never noticed anything like the activity at Tesco's on Infirmary Road, which has some "poor" areas on the doorstep. It's the two for the price of one offers and similar that fly off the shelves.

[cgksheff]

.......... Poor young men are much more likely to be killed for example, and over the past 30 years, the chance of them being murdered has risen massively whilst falling for all other ages and sexes bar females under 1.

 

........

 

You love to tease. Don't you.

 

The apparent statistics that you float do not have any such causality.

 

People do not get murdered "because" they are poor (unless they get between me and that smoked salmon with 10% off!)

[Sid Umpley]

its not down to income its down to disposable income.

 

those coppers could have had 5 kids and a hefty rent. who are you to decide on appearances how much spare cash they have?

 

 

Do you always judge by appearance?

[chem1st]

You love to tease. Don't you.

 

The apparent statistics that you float do not have any such causality.

 

People do not get murdered "because" they are poor (unless they get between me and that smoked salmon with 10% off!)

 

https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=861659

 

In fact, the rise in murders in Britain has been concentrated almost exclusively amongst men of working age living in the poorest parts of the country. Living in the areas most affected by the recession and high unemployment of the early 1980s, many of these men left school at 15 or 16 and were unable to find work. In each case, there is no simple causal relationship at play. Murders typically result from a complex interplay of factors – including social exclusion, esteem and status – as well as a considerable degree of bad luck. For every murder victim, dozens of others have been ‘almost murdered’. There is a common myth that gun crime is behind high murder rates in poor areas. In fact, a higher proportion of rich people are killed by guns than poor people. The most common way of being murdered in poor areas was through being cut with a knife or broken glass. Most murders are shockingly banal – such as a fight after a night out drinking in which a threat was made and someone died.

 

http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/publications/commentary/red_pepper_inequality_kills.pdf

 

INEQUALITY KILLS!

 

In the five years 1981-85, people living in the poorest ten per cent of wards in Britain were four and a half times more likely to be murdered than those living in the least poor 10 per cent. Furthermore, the SMR for murder rises monotonically (always in the same direction) with poverty: for every increase in poverty there is a rise in the murder rate, such that people living in the poorest tenth of Britain were 143 per cent more likely than average to be murdered. This rose in the successive five year periods to 161 per cent, 171 per cent and then 182 per cent above the average SMR of 100. Most surprisingly, despite the overall national doubling of the murder rate over this time, people living in the least poor 20 per cent of Britain saw their already very low rates of murder fall further. The increase in murder was concentrated almost exclusively in the poorer parts of Britain and most strongly in its poorest tenth of wards. By the 1990s the excess deaths due to murder in the poorest half of Britain amounted to around 200 per year, that is murders that would not occur if these places experienced average rates. Just over half of that number related to excess murders amongst the poorest tenth of the population.

 

The rise in murder in Britain has been concentrated almost exclusively in men of working age living in the poorest parts of the country.

 

http://www.dannydorling.org/wp-content/files/dannydorling_publication_id1048.pdf

[Longcol]

Poor people are already labelled and verbally attacked. They are also physically attacked and killed. Poor young men are much more likely to be killed for example, and over the past 30 years, the chance of them being murdered has risen massively whilst falling for all other ages and sexes bar females under 1.

 

 

Which has precisely nothing to do with who buys what from the reduced shelves in a supermarket.

[andygardener]

The most common way of being murdered in poor areas was through being cut with a knife or broken glass. Most murders are shockingly banal – such as a fight after a night out drinking in which a threat was made and someone died.

 

Would suggest rather than "inequality kills" in big letters being the case, drunk threatening cretins kill, mainly with a blade or bottle.