WH Smith chewing gum prices

surreyman_2

FACT: a WH Smith retail store at London Victoria Station was charging 75p for a stick of Wrigley's Extra (that contains 10 pieces of chewing gum).
FACT: at least one branch of Asda was selling the same item yesterday for 33p.
Has anyone else noticed any goods being sold for, erm, unexpectedly high prices at WH Smith?

mymatebob

FACT - shop sells goods for a price
FACT - another shop sells same goods for a different price.

My goodness how will we all cope, what is the world coming too.

moonrakerz

surreyman wrote: »

FACT: a WH Smith retail store at London Victoria Station was charging 75p for a stick of Wrigley's Extra (that contains 10 pieces of chewing gum).
FACT: at least one branch of Asda was selling the same item yesterday for 33p.
Has anyone else noticed any goods being sold for, erm, unexpectedly high prices at WH Smith?

Good on WH Smith !

The damn' stuff should be £7.50 !!

Freddie_Snowbits

You have a choice and feet. if you do not like the choice use your feet. The branch at the station is there for convenience, you have to go off route to the diary farmers outfit.

reehsetin

sounds about right, the normal shops have a slightly higher price than everywhere else usually and the travel shops are about double that! they have a captive audience, to be fair i dont think any other station/airport shops are much cheaper

RobertoMoir

FACT: It's a free market for unregulated things like that. They can charge what they like and we can say "you must be bloody joking" and go elsewhere.

bap98189

I wish people would stop posting high prices in the rip-off board. This is not a rip-off. Nobody is forcing anyone to buy the expensive chewing gum, WH Smith are merely offering it for sale at that price.

A retailler charging 10 times that would not be a rip-off so long as they clearly state the price. A rip-off is when someone sells something which doesn't do what they say it should, or when they conceal the true price in some way.

surreyman_2

Well, please pardon my ignorance. I didn't realise that the "Warnings & Rip-offs" thread was intended to promote complacency. I was foolishly under the misguided impression that the name "Warnings & Rip-offs" meant that people could post warnings as well as highlighting rip-offs (which are not necessarily the same thing and which means this thread isn't exclusively about rip-offs, if you think about it).

Freddie_Snowbits

I wish we could actually ban the stuff, like they have done in Singapore

chuckley

surreyman wrote: »

FACT: a WH Smith retail store at London Victoria Station was charging 75p for a stick of Wrigley's Extra (that contains 10 pieces of chewing gum).
FACT: at least one branch of Asda was selling the same item yesterday for 33p.
Has anyone else noticed any goods being sold for, erm, unexpectedly high prices at WH Smith?

i think there is your answer to the most useless qtn to grace this board...

omen666

Why don't you go the whole hog and say how much Burger King costs more at Victoria Statioon rather than Burger King in Surrey?