£14k Tuck Shop kid

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Oakey

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27,564 posts

216 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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No thread on the promising young footballer 'entrepreneur' who has made £14k selling junk food and sweets to fellow pupils?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/11245356/Scho...

He's currently on the news and his parents, especially his father, are a pair of right fat s. You'd think they'd be more sympathetic towards the schools attempts at a healthy eating policy.


greygoose

8,258 posts

195 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Maybe he is selling his snacks to his mum and dad too?

Oakey

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27,564 posts

216 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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greygoose said:
Maybe he is selling his snacks to his mum and dad too?
That's how it starts, the first hit is always free biggrin

toohuge

3,434 posts

216 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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I wonder if he has declared the income from this little venture.....

toohuge

3,434 posts

216 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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I wonder if he has declared the income from this little venture.....

Squawk1066

2,941 posts

171 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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You would think he has been dealing drugs with the amount of bad press this has been getting.

Good luck to him I say. Oh, 14k? That's a LOT of goodies. spin

Butter Face

30,294 posts

160 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Smart lad, I did similar when I was in school. I'd pick up a couple of multipacks of smarties or polos (5 packs for £1) and selll them in school for a bit more each.

Put a few quid in my pocket every week!

Oakey

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27,564 posts

216 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Squawk1066 said:
You would think he has been dealing drugs with the amount of bad press this has been getting.

Good luck to him I say. Oh, 14k? That's a LOT of goodies. spin
Well considering we've just been told obesity is costing the taxpayer £47billion a year it's quite understandable.

He only makes money because the school chooses not to sell the same crap. I suppose we could go back to schools selling kids junk and let the country keep getting fatter?


MrHorsepower

2,438 posts

138 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Well done to him. I wouldn't mind a suspension if I got £14k out of it. Healthy eating's a load of bks that people should have a choice about.

Gandahar

9,600 posts

128 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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As my wife is a teacher he simply needs to supply the teachers with cheap chocolate biscuits to make it into their hearts so they ignore it.
See this is where he has gone wrong, no back handers to the "authorities" as would the mafia do.

He could have supplied them with cheap biscuits at morning and afternoon breaks and they would have turned a blind eye, but now they have broken omerta and so will have to start disappearing, presumably in barrels of acid purchased from the chemistry teacher.


Art0ir

9,401 posts

170 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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I'll slip in a "fair play" before the think of the children brigade arrive en masse.

RobinBanks

17,540 posts

179 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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I did the same at school.

I didn't get as much as him but multipack stuff can be sold at a good markup individually.

Especially in boarding when it's after lights out and people are starving from sitting in the cold and playing rugby and being given tiny dinners.

MiniMan64

16,917 posts

190 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Every school has someone running something like this. Most places turn a blind eye, the only reason I could see management putting a stop to it at our place is if they started selling "energy" drinks

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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MrHorsepower said:
Well done to him. I wouldn't mind a suspension if I got £14k out of it. Healthy eating's a load of bks that people should have a choice about.
Yeah, what's the point in healthy eating in schools! What a load of bks! These killjoy, do gooders are the same kind of idiots that got drink driving banned.


Jasandjules

69,883 posts

229 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Last time I checked companies like Mars and Cadburys do much like this but on a larger scale. Why are they not being vilified?

People don't have to buy his stuff. Well done to him for being enterprising.

Oakey

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27,564 posts

216 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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They have or have you failed to notice chocolate bars have gotten smaller?

Cheese Mechanic

3,157 posts

169 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Good for him. He shows initiative. No reports of him forcing people to buy what he sells.

Too many spitefull nasty envy driven little scrotes jealous of his initiative. Still, losers have always been as such.

petrolsniffer

2,461 posts

174 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Oakey said:
He only makes money because the school chooses not to sell the same crap. I suppose we could go back to schools selling kids junk and let the country keep getting fatter?
It would exist regardless we had a kid at our school who sold stuff alot cheaper than the vending machines he also sold cigs at 25p each

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Cheese Mechanic said:
Good for him. He shows initiative. No reports of him forcing people to buy what he sells.

Too many spitefull nasty envy driven little scrotes jealous of his initiative. Still, losers have always been as such.
They might not be happy with him making money by circumventing the agreed schools healthy eating policy.

I'm not convinced anyone is jealous that some high rolling school boy made £14,000 selling sweets in the playground but perhaps you're right. hehe

MrHorsepower

2,438 posts

138 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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el stovey said:
MrHorsepower said:
Well done to him. I wouldn't mind a suspension if I got £14k out of it. Healthy eating's a load of bks that people should have a choice about.
Yeah, what's the point in healthy eating in schools! What a load of bks! These killjoy, do gooders are the same kind of idiots that got drink driving banned.
Really? Are the two that similar? I didn't realise that unhealthy eating could kill or otherwise endanger other people.