News that there has been a rise in the number of people bringing a packed lunch to work made me shudder. “It’s crunch time for lunchtime,” chirped the Grocer magazine, and it wasn’t talking about a surge in consumption of crisp sandwiches.
The cost of living crisis is apparently responsible for an extra 108m lunchboxes being brought to work in the past year, a rise of 7%. What is striking about the data is that higher earners are driving the trend. Or, as the Grocer dubbed it, “the rise of the white-collar packed lunch”, as if forgoing a Pret Posh Cheddar & Pickle baguette is some kind of social leveller.
