Originally Posted by handyman

50p a bag is that not about the average? Yes you can get them in multipacks for a lot less but I'm certain I bought a branded pack of crisps for 55p a pack the other day. On a motorway services it would have been £1 but that never makes the news does it?

I object to the article on grounds that it states that the boy earns £15 per day. Assuming 50% gross profit he would have to sell 60 packets of crisps to earn £15, crisps normally come packed in 48's so he would have to rock up to school each day with a full box plus 12 packs to make that money. Perhaps the bbc are confusing earn money with gross takings which is pretty much straight forward for the press as it makes for better headlines.

My boy is 13 and sells the odd sweet and chewing gum at school and I actively encourage this sort of entrepreneurialism as it will do him more good than learning about 1st world war tanks..