Wickes adding more than 2.5% "VAT"

MissUno

Myself personally I wouldn't go to too much trouble for 20p. However, when you look at it as being that extra 20p on x,y & z there are those who, on a very tight budget, would want to make every penny count. As pennies soon add up to pounds if you're not careful.

Daft old so-called civilization, what a mess we've got ourselves into.

*needs more coffee*

Flyboy152

fluffnutter wrote: »

VAT has gone up on every non-exempt item. The costs incurred in stocking an individual product might well have increased in addition to the actual increase of the product itself, i.e. because travel costs, manufacturing costs, distribution costs etc. have also increased. Just a thought. I know the landlord at my local always used this excuse every time he whacked another 10p on the price of a pint.

A local convenience store in the next village put up their bread from one pound fifty a loaf to to one pound sixty a loaf. When I asked him why he said it was because of the VAT increase. I pointed out to him that VAT is charged on bread, he then tried to justify that it cost hm more because he had to pay VAT on fuel etc. to go fetch it from the cash and carry, I pointed out to further that he can claim that back every quarter on his returns. He then started getting shirty, telling me that the rules had changed.

I can't understand why people like that can't just tell the truth, there was no need to lie. All he had to do, was say that he wanted to earn more profit, or that the cost from the wholesalers had gone up, or both.

Flyboy152

MissUno wrote: »

Myself personally I wouldn't go to too much trouble for 20p. However, when you look at it as being that extra 20p on x,y & z there are those who, on a very tight budget, would want to make every penny count. As pennies soon add up to pounds if you're not careful.

Daft old so-called civilization, what a mess we've got ourselves into.

*needs more coffee*

Don't go giving to trains like Taiko does. :D

MissUno

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Don't go giving to trains like Taiko does. :D

:laugh: Oh no, it's my fuel....all mine. Caffeine will have to substitute actual sleep for today - fun times.