Smokeless coal, buy NOW

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I have just had a pallet of the stuff delivered (1 ton). It turns out that HomeBargain still has last spring's prices, i.e. £4 per 10 kg bag (found out by accident and bought it immediately)
Next cheapest was a local coal merchant at £4.40 per 10 Kg.
Range is selling the same as HB, but now at £6.50!!! (it used to be 4 until a few weeks ago). B&M still doesn't have it, but I bet the price will have gone up. Any other seller was already much more expensive, so, shop NOW.
Next cheapest was a local coal merchant at £4.40 per 10 Kg.
Range is selling the same as HB, but now at £6.50!!! (it used to be 4 until a few weeks ago). B&M still doesn't have it, but I bet the price will have gone up. Any other seller was already much more expensive, so, shop NOW.
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Unbelievable; it HAS gone up. I suspect it was a mistake on their part to get the price the same as last April.
Still, shop NOW. The local coal merchant (selling now at £11 per 25 kg bag) said that his prices would go up again in the next few weeks to about £15-16 per bag. At the time I thought he was applying some kind of hard sale tactic, but when I saw Range selling the Brazier at £6.50 (10 kg)...
Shame that the coal shed was demolished a long time ago.
My impression is that the manufacturers have been watching the price of gas and electricity and have been pricing sold fuel against it. Even allowing for increasing costs, I very much doubt such a price rise can be due to anything but the manufacturers (not the retailers, like Housefuel) taking advantage of the situation.