Worst convenience store price mark-up

Becles

It was "that time of the month" and I'd forgotten to buy something

I went to the village shop but it was closed. Due to having wine with my tea, I couldn't drive to the supermarket and it was too late to get the bus there. Then I remembered the garage on the main road sells a small selection of grocery items. Walked along there and luckily found a packet of pads. However they cost £2.49 against a price of £1.37 in Tesco :eek:

You expect to pay a little more in village shops, but I thought that was totally excessive. However it was an emergency, so I had to buy them!

It got me wondering - what's the most expensive convenience buy you've had to make?

nearlyrich

Bottle of water in a hotel (50ml) £2.50 GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! Better than a hangover though.

YorkshireBoy

50ml is more or less a rain-drop (OK then a perfume bottle). Surely you mean 500ml

nearlyrich

YorkshireBoy wrote:

50ml is more or less a rain-drop (OK then a perfume bottle). Surely you mean 500ml

Yeah I do, it was in Yorkshire too! Sorry glass of red has kicked in LOL

SnowyOwl_2

Yonks ago I went into a little shop in Alperton - there was a range of magazines on sale, and included in the display were the freebees from the Sunday papers without the wrapping. Think he was charging £1.20 or so for the free magazines. What a terrible man!

Also, yonks ago when I was a smoker and when ciggies took their annual tax hike it was guaranteed that the local small traders immediately upped their prices to cover the tax. Of course they were selling cigs that they had bought before the tax rise, and were therefore lining their pockets with the difference. At least the supermarkets had the decency to sell existing stock at the old price. I started buying from them rather than get blatently ripped off by certain local traders. I've given up the evil weed now though.

Biggest mark up I think in general has to be on sandwiches...£1.99 for two slices of bread, a scraping of margerine and a bit of tuna & mayonnaise. That is daylight robbery yet many people buy a sandwich every single day? Freshly made sarnies are just as bad...20p for extra lettuce? Hmmm...

jockettuk

Becles wrote:

It was "that time of the month" and I'd forgotten to buy something

I went to the village shop but it was closed. Due to having wine with my tea, I couldn't drive to the supermarket and it was too late to get the bus there. Then I remembered the garage on the main road sells a small selection of grocery items. Walked along there and luckily found a packet of pads. However they cost £2.49 against a price of £1.37 in Tesco :eek:

You expect to pay a little more in village shops, but I thought that was totally excessive. However it was an emergency, so I had to buy them!

It got me wondering - what's the most expensive convenience buy you've had to make?

lol should have just bought cheap toilet paper and used loads till the next mornng lol

IvanOpinion

One of the items with the biggest markup is fountain drinks from a hotel bar. They will charge you anyhting up to £2 for a half-pint glass which only costs them a couple of pence (for the syrup).

Ivan

RoseG

At our work they charge 80p for a print of milk in the staff canteen!

Our local Somerfield (also known as 'that hell hole') has decided that Cheddars are worth 99p - unlike the rest of supermarkets who charge the usual 69p or so...

Stonk

£1 for a local paper, which drops free through the letterbox (usually unwanted, until the one time you really do want it).

Stonk

92.9p for a litre of petrol.

Stonk

£1.20-plus for a cup of tea in a paper takeaway cup from any one of the coffee chains.