Everybody makes use of a coupon from time to time to save
the pennies. Actually, that’s not true, a lot of people can’t be bothered with
them because they can be really irritating, and is it really worth it to save
thirty pence? Sure, some people make a bit of a saving, but no-one’s ever saved
anything really noteworthy by couponing.
Sometimes on TV shows there’ll be a gag about major savings
couponing; for example in 2 Broke Girls, Caroline gets carried away with
couponing and actually manages to sort her coupons to the extent the store owes
her money for her shopping. Which is fabulous, but completely impossible. Or
maybe not, as Jordan Cox, a student, recently proved.
Armed with 470 coupons he’d scoured from the internet and
magazines, he hit up his local Tesco. Armed with three trolleys, he filled them
all, before rolling up to what would be the longest checkout experience known
to man. I actually feel really bad for the person who had to deal with all
those coupons; it took over an hour to go through them all at the checkout. But
clearly worth it, as the total of his shopping should have been £572.16, but
after coupon upon coupon it totalled only FOUR PENCE. That’s a saving of
£572.12. This whole experience probably took about three hours, so one way you
could look at this, is that it’s kind of like he made £191/hour, which is
awesome.
Not finished with being awesome yet however, Jordan then
donated all of his purchases to families in need through the charity, Doorstep.
Knowing that a 1000th of the UK population can’t afford to eat this
Christmas, he wanted to help. And also a little bit prove just how cheaply you
can shop. It’s genius, and it’s genuinely going to help people. Although I do
have to question the abundance of squirty cream in the picture. There’s like
half a trolley of the stuff. It’s great, it’s noble and all that, but the
squirty cream part does seem a little… ridiculous. Still, an incredibly
impressive feat. Hats off to you Jordan Cox.
Ari Carrington
