Decision making and the recession

The recession seems to have finally hit pretty close to home. While coming back from Sunday's training I swung by the store to pick up some food and for the first time during my time in Lauttasaari I was met with a slightly sad situation. In front of me in the queue was a woman who was purchasing a couple of ciders and a salad. It turned out that her bank balance wasn't too good as her debit card got rejected twice. After the first rejection she removed one cider from her purchases. After the second rejection she returned the cider back and just removed the salad. Apparently getting alcohol is more important than eating.