Supermarkets take six months of our lives
New research has revealed the extent of the time and costs spent in supermarkets by the average Briton.
According to insurance company Clerical Medical, the typical UK resident will spend £148,000 in supermarkets over their lifetime.
Furthermore, the total time spent queuing and shopping will amount to approximately six months of our lives.
The findings detail the effect of the £63 spent on the average weekly shop, with the addition of occasional 'top-up' trips made by three in four Britons, who spend typically over half an hour inside the shop.
Over half of those polled in the research cited the cheap costs of supermarkets as their key asset, but Clerical Medical managing director John Hiew questioned whether the time could be better occupied grappling with the household budget.
'If we spent a fraction of that time sorting out our finances, then many more people would not be facing hardship when they retire,' he commented. | 
