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Isto é o que se chama história de sucesso do governo reaça de Davide Camarão: Supermercados a abrir para famílias na miséria num dos paíse mais ricos do mundo!
Há aí um problema grave nesse país. Muito dos outros países ainda são piores. Todavia, essa probreza nesse país é inadmissível, porque teve e tem potencial para não ter aí nem sequer uma só família sem pão para pôe em cima da mesa. Vejam lá isso e ponham a big Dociety do PM Davide Camerão em andamento. Ou isso foi mesmo uma ideia peregrina?
Há aí um problema grave nesse país. Muito dos outros países ainda são piores. Todavia, essa probreza nesse país é inadmissível, porque teve e tem potencial para não ter aí nem sequer uma só família sem pão para pôe em cima da mesa. Vejam lá isso e ponham a big Dociety do PM Davide Camerão em andamento. Ou isso foi mesmo uma ideia peregrina?
No entanto, a média dos salários da BBC, produtora deste artigo, é de 100 mil libras anuais. Houve recentememnte um diretor desta empresa nacional que recebeu perto de i milhão de libras embora só lá tenho parado uns 40 dias.
E tem distribuído mais centenas de milhares a outros quando são convidados e fazem-se canadidatos ao despedimento.
Auinda mais, o Reino Unido está cheio de diretores a ganhar centenas de milhares de bónus anuais, sem contar os salários já por elevadamente escandalosos que eles usufruiem.
Depois falta o dinheiro para um rainy day e para investir na ferramenta de trabalho, porque as chefias coam os lucros todos. Isso está lindo aí para vocês no Reino Unido, o qual parece mais desunidi do que unido com essas diferenças de salários.
Leiam agora o artigo em Inglês.
Supermarket sells discounted products to low-income families
A shop in Barnsley has started selling heavily-discounted items donated by some of the big supermarkets
The UK's first 'social supermarket' has opened for business, selling cheap products to people on welfare support.
The Community Shop will sell items ranging from food to toothpaste up to 70% cheaper from a store at Goldthorpe, a former mining village near Barnsley.
It is backed by big retailers, and customers must be receiving benefits and live in a certain postcode area.
The shop sells retailers' surplus stock, and items with damaged packaging or incorrect labelling.
The idea for the supermarket is modelled on similar welfare outlets on mainland Europe.
Customers will be checked to ensure they are eligible to use the supermarket, and membership cards will be issued.
Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Asda, and Tetley are among the many organisations supplying products for the supermarket.
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There are many charitable and co-operative food projects in the UK, such as the food banks run by the Trussell Trust, which provides a minimum of three days emergency food and support to people experiencing crisis in the UK.
But the Community Shop is the first of its kind, said Sarah Dunwell, director of social affairs at Company Shop, the organisation that is running the supermarket.
"All the products are wholesome or fit-for-purpose, but for some reason were not going to make it onto the shelves of a supermarket," she said.
"We think that people who are really struggling to stretch their household budget should be able to access this food," Ms Dunwell said.
The Company Shop is the UK's largest commercial re-distributor of surplus food and products.
Profits from sales at the Community Shop will be re-invested in the supermarket itself, and in "support services" on the premises. These include advice on writing job applications, cookery classes, and debt advisory services.
There are ambitions to create 20 supermarket branches, but it was decided to open the first at Goldthorpe as it is one of the most deprived areas of the UK.
"It's potentially a winner for lots of people," said Chris Goulden, head of poverty at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. "It's good for the community, who can buy cheap food. It's providing jobs. And it's good for companies, who otherwise would have to dispose of the food that's been left."
What do you think of this supermarket? Will you be able to use it? Should it be available to everyone? Send us your comments.
