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Opening of Arkwhites Best Before Store in George Street, Hastings Old Town, on December 13 2023.
Transcript
00:00 [Music]
00:03 Yeah, hello there. This is called Artquites and what we are, we are buying food that has got to
00:08 its best before date or just over it and just trying to help everyone out there with the cost
00:13 of living crisis that we've got going at the moment. One of the plans, we're open five days a week,
00:18 closed on Mondays and Tuesdays and it's just bringing stuff in for everyone to just, I say,
00:23 just make life easier for them. We're doing catering side things as well to help the restaurants
00:28 because they're finding it very tough at the moment. We haven't got any fridges or freezers
00:32 or so but it's just, we've got baby food, we've got toys, we've got virtually everything you
00:37 could think of and roughly around about 50-60% saving of the local supermarkets. Other than me
00:44 having a restaurant for the last 15 years in the old town, I never really had to worry about food
00:49 because I could either eat in the restaurant or buy from Booker's Catch and Curry. So as soon as
00:53 I went around to the supermarkets and saw what everyone was charging and speaking to people,
00:57 I just realised that it's just so bad out there. Some parents are going without eating so their
01:03 kids can eat and it's just wrong. Good food should be affordable for everyone and it shouldn't be a
01:09 luxury. I mean, we've got a very small outlay here. As I say, we haven't got any fridges or freezers,
01:13 we haven't got a credit card machine, we're cash only, which takes our,
01:17 keep our prices nice and low. So we're just trying, we've got to run a business,
01:24 we've got to make a small profit, but I say everything we get goes back into the business
01:29 and the more we sell, the more we can lower prices.
01:31 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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