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In 2014 Tesco overstated profits by £263,000,000 This is what £263 million looks like in terms of everyday products
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You could buy 75,358,166 movies on Blinkbox at an average price of £3.49 per movie.

With a budget of £263,000,000 on Blinkbox to be used up in 6 months, you need to have watched:
5
Full-length* feature films in the time you've been on this website.

*At an average movie length of 130 minutes, that's 163,276,026 hours of footage!

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Bread.

You could buy 263,000,000 loaves of Hovis Great White bread at Tesco.

With this bread, you could make 2,630,000,000 sandwiches.

  • Enough bread to make sandwiches for the next 3,010,531 years for an average family of 4.

With a £263,000,000 budget over 6 months, you could have bought...

55 loaves of bread

...in the time you've been on this site!

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Red wine.

You could buy 26,326,326 bottles of La Mascota wine with £263,000,000.

Enough to fill 7.8 Olympic sized swimming pools!

5

The number of large glasses of wine you could have filled since being on the site with a budget of £263 million over 6 months.

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Milk.

£263,000,000 worth of milk will buy you 131,500,000 4 pint cartons, or 526,000,000 pints.

Yes. Five hundred and twenty six million pints of milk.

To make this much milk, I would have to produce 64 pints a day, 7 days a week, for 24,517 years!

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Baked Beans.

£236,000,000 equals...

X 386,764,706

You'd have to have bought 8 tins in the time you've been on this site in order to spend £263 million in 6 months.

Stacked on top of eachother, this many tins of baked beans would stand taller than 215,985 Shard buildings in London.

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Televisions.

You'd be able to buy

527,054

50" flatscreen Samsung TVs.

That's...

55 TVs since you've been on this website.

This many screens is equivalent to the surface area of

20,085

of the largest IMAX cinema screens.

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Panadol Advance.

You could buy 164,375,000 packets of Panadol with £263 million.

Or...


  • 10 packets bought in the time you've been on this website.

  • Enough tablets to help relieve 1,315,000,000 hangovers.

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Tea.

114,847,162

The number of 80-pack units of PG Tips you could buy with £263 million.

9,187,772,960

The number of tea bags you could buy.

322,717

The number of years you could keep an office of 30 tea drinkers happy for.

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Trollies.

65,700,000

The number of pairs of Tesco boxers you could purchase with £263,000,000.

2,265

The number of men that could have a new pair of trollies everyday for their entire lives with £263,000,000.

Sources & Explanations

We had to make quite a few assumptions in this analysis. Prices are valid as of 24/10/2014 and include offer prices where applicable. If you think we could be more accurate, or if you spot an error, please get in touch.

Tesco prices

All prices taken from www.tesco.com on 24/10/2014.

Wine

Bread

Milk

Tea

TV

  • Product: Samsung 50" plasma
  • £263 million can buy: 527,054 units

Paracetamol

Beans

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