{"id":45308,"date":"2026-01-23T18:06:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/1975-could-you-do-your-food-shop-just-once-a-year\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:06:05","slug":"1975-could-you-do-your-food-shop-just-once-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/1975-could-you-do-your-food-shop-just-once-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"1975: Could you do your food shop just once a year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s a chore we all have to do regularly but in 1975 Nationwide went grocery shopping with a couple who bought all their supplies yearly rather than weekly. By borrowing a van and enlisting the help of supermarket staff to push their multiple bulging trollies outside to the carpark, the pair reckoned their \u00a3122 annual shop would make savings if any of the products were to go up with inflation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, <a href=\"https:\/\/genome.ch.bbc.co.uk\/323f6670999e4041907edcad8c0540d5\" class=\"ssrcss-1m547yt-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">5 February 1975<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Explore more and follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/topics\/c01yxyz46myt\" class=\"ssrcss-1m547yt-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">BBC Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/videos\/cn9zel8v9eeo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a chore we all have to do regularly but in 1975 Nationwide went grocery shopping with a couple who bought all their supplies yearly rather than weekly. By borrowing a van and enlisting the help of supermarket staff to push their multiple bulging trollies outside to the carpark, the pair reckoned their \u00a3122 annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[516,638,653],"class_list":["post-45308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-food","tag-shop","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45310,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45308\/revisions\/45310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}