Time is a commodity, and becomes even more tight as an individual living from paycheck to paycheck. Grocery shopping every day or two likely isn’t tenable. Not if you want time to sleep between 16h work days.
It’s why some poor folks rely on fast food. There’s no time for anything else.
Is this a Varric reference? “How about a giant sign that just says ‘Don’t’, [you could hit people with it.”]