Plan to send out 1,000 mobile grocery vans

[Big Boy]

I'm not sure how this one will work.........

The Cabinet has approved the plan to send out 1,000 mobile grocery vans to sell products at discounts of 20-40%. The vans will be sent out to communities and villages nationwide. This project aims to help the public with daily expenses and to stimulate household consumption across the country, as well as decreasing unnecessary travel to lower the chance of getting an infection. The prices of the products in these mobile grocery vans will be 20-40% cheaper than the market price.

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1,000 vans to reach 66M people across 513,120 km². My career anchor was logistics (sorry DM) - replenishment of 1,000 vans will probably need at least 2,000 more.

[buksida]

Lemme guess ... CP owns the fleet.

[PeteC]

Lemme guess that Best By and Use By dates will take a leading role in this discount price production.

[handdrummer]

Lemme guess that Best By and Use By dates will take a leading role in this discount price production.

Will it be for Thais only?

[KhunLA]

Will it be for Thais only?

Do foreigners with 40k or 65k a month income need assistance ?

[caller]

It makes no sense at all. It must be being done in conjunction with big business. Save the cost of the fleet of vans and give the people the money weekly or monthly instead.

[Big Boy]

Will it be for Thais only?

Do foreigners with 40k or 65k a month income need assistance ?

It's not so much a need for assistance, it will become a dual pricing issue again. If a loaf of bread costs a foreigner 100฿ and a Thai can buy it for 60฿, be sure the dual pricing brigade will cry foul.

[buksida]

Maybe pink ID card holders can get discounted bread ...

[handdrummer]

Will it be for Thais only?

Do foreigners with 40k or 65k a month income need assistance ?

Some may, If they have 2 or 3 children that is not a lot of money.

The prism of our own lives is a very small window through which to view the world.

[KhunLA]

I guess some folks don't understand the concept of 'family planning'. If only 40k a month, may want stick with 1 kid, maybe 2, if not using private schools. Not much of a planned retirement if living month to month. Oh well

[handdrummer]

I guess some folks don't understand the concept of 'family planning'. If only 40k a month, may want stick with 1 kid, maybe 2, if not using private schools. Not much of a planned retirement if living month to month. Oh well

There you go again, projecting your own values and life upon others.

Ok, let's say that 15 yrs. ago 40,000 was enough to support 2 or 3 children and your crystal ball had been stolen by a "golden child" (see Thai mythology) so you couldn't know the future cost of living would severely curtail your ability to support your family comfortably and and now here you are struggling to maintain a decent standard of living and being able to buy food and sundries at a lower than market price would help. Oh, the children don't go to private schools and you have a motorbike instead of a car. But that's ok, you can be right and smug.

[buksida]

The prism of our own lives is a very small window through which to view the world.

I like that thought, but I think we're straying from the topic here. It would make a good subject for a new thread though, there are clearly some strong opinions here.

[handdrummer]

The prism of our own lives is a very small window through which to view the world.

I like that thought, but I think we're straying from the topic here. It would make a good subject for a new thread though, there are clearly some strong opinions here.

I can agree with that. Excalibur!

[hhinner]

^^ Excelsior?

[KhunLA]

But that's ok, you can be right and smug.

I don't know about smug, but what is so hard with living on 40k baht a month. Nobody with that income should need assistance, unless an oops along the way dealt them a bad hand.

My monthly expenses are less than 40k, and I'm a bit frivolous (camera gear, drones w/ out & abouts) with our spending. On a marriage visa, though have monthly income for a ret. visa, but pension is not able to dd in Thai bank. Even having 800k a month, we (wife & I), live on about 30k a month. The kid, just graduated Uni, was going through about 30+k a month, in Krung Thep @ Thammasat Uni. We'll probably still support her for another year, as she took my advice, and passed on being an 'employee', and started her own business.

We rent 6k a month, but building now, and have new MG ZS, both from saving. If renting & scooter with sidecar, then that would be fine also. Dine mostly in, by choice, and have more than enough left over every month.

Who doesn't plan for inflation, as when I got here, I lived on 15k a month. Moving to a 3rd world country, under military junta, then yea, a bit of risk involved, but any research prior to, would help in an educated guess if for you to do. Retirement & family planning, isn't really rocket science. Just ignored by some.

If you can't live here on 40k a month, even with 2 kids, you got some major vices you're supporting. Your income isn't the problem, your spending is. Many Thais do it on much less.