Local bargains? Over-pricing?

[Domitianus]

Can't not post this. Went out earlier to the V7 newsagent near Green & Blue and bought a packet of vinyl ring reinforcers for 79p. Used them all up and (because I had got the last packet in V7) I dandered into Ralon to buy some more. Same type, same number (although different brand) and they wanted to charge me ?1-60!!!!! I walked out. Is he taking the piss?

Anyone else notice any other examples of great local bargains or excessive pricing?

[karter]

I have noticed that you can buy 3 low voltage bulbs in the pound shop in Peckham for yes guess, ?1 for 3 and locally in ED they cost triple or quadruple the price. Amazing

[KalamityKel]

Hence the name "pound shop" :p

[karter]

Its actually called poundbusters. durr

[KalamityKel]

I stand corrected!

[Domitianus]

Stand? Get on your knees!

[KalamityKel]

Not on this thread I wont! :p

[Administrator]

Please stay on topic

[franglaisia]

I suppose pricing is about what the market will happily pay?

There's a general grocery at the GG end of Lordship Lane that's open earliest and closes latest. It was the first to sell lots of useful stuff like various veggie items, very wide range of healthfoods, gluten free, seed butter, and has every variety of mozzarella known to man. But it's never gone in for the snob thing. Another shop which went big on organic food across the road, now sells all the same stuff, although they often get new things later, and they routinely charge 25% more for it. If you ask recent SE22ers, they've heard of the expensive one, never been in the other. Older shop just not trendy.

SE22 now corporate lawyer and banker country - they are working in a US culture and increasingly living it - hence lots of people here for whom money is completely divorced from reality or value.

Domitianus Wrote:

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> Can't not post this. Went out earlier to the V7

> newsagent near Green & Blue and bought a packet of

> vinyl ring reinforcers for 79p. Used them all up

> and (because I had got the last packet in V7) I

> dandered into Ralon to buy some more. Same type,

> same number (although different brand) and they

> wanted to charge me ?1-60!!!!! I walked out. Is

> he taking the piss?

>

> Anyone else notice any other examples of great

> local bargains or excessive pricing?

[spadetownboy]

Domitianus Wrote:

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> Can't not post this. Went out earlier to the V7

> newsagent near Green & Blue and bought a packet of

> vinyl ring reinforcers for 79p. Used them all up

> and (because I had got the last packet in V7) I

> dandered into Ralon to buy some more. Same type,

> same number (although different brand) and they

> wanted to charge me ?1-60!!!!! I walked out. Is

> he taking the piss?

>

> Anyone else notice any other examples of great

> local bargains or excessive pricing?

well there you go a different brand, obviously a more superior type of vinyl ring enforcer to justify the price hike.

by the way what are vinyl ring enforcers are they some sort of sex toy?

[Mark]

I'm with you on that franglaisia, the Dulwich supermarket you mention is one of the best shops in East Dulwich. 500g Cypress almonds in there ?1.99, 300g of the same almonds in Somerfield ?2.39. Extra virgin olive oil ?4.49, in a not too far off place that you also mention ?8.20.

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[Nero]

SE22 is now corporate lawyer and banker country - they are working in a US culture and increasingly living it - hence lots of people here for whom money is completely divorced from reality or value.

It is hardly that, franglaisia. There are a few around, but it SE22 doesn't have that feel. Try Fulham or Clapham for that, or the village. To keep it on thread, I agree about the grocer's shop opposite the Bishop. Cheap and cheerful. But EDD is very good when it has sales on. Panettone for a fiver? That's good, eh? Nero

[KalamityKel]

It all remind me of a conversation I had with a lovely old chap in the pub over the price of a normal bog standard loaf of sliced bread. "?1.72! what a rip off!" Not sure which shop he had purchased it from but I believe it to be a late nite "oncenvience" shop.

Yes a rip off but what can one do late in the evening on a Sunday?

[karter]

The grocers shop opposite the bishop/black cherry with fruit and veg outside is excellent ( not to be confused with the one on the corner please). Good service and handy to have. Great range of organic stuff, olive oil as Mark said at reasonable prices.

[franglaisia]

Forgot the extra virgin olive oil. Have endless collection which looks beautiful, loath to take one off shelf and ruin it. And Swedish almond biscuits and Swedish glace. Excuse me must go shopping.

Mark Wrote:

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> I'm with you on that franglaisia, the Dulwich

> supermarket you mention is one of the best shops

> in East Dulwich. 500g Cypress almonds in there

> ?1.99, 300g of the same almonds in Somerfield

> ?2.39. Extra virgin olive oil ?4.49, in a not too

> far off place that you also mention ?8.20.

>

>

[karter]

Piers says " And full selection of Green and Blacks. Excuse me must go shopping."

Lots of places do not sell Green and Blacks anymore as they sold up and now are owned by cadburys or nestle, cant remember which (unethical)

[franglaisia]

Seems they are now part of Cadbury Schweppes. Please tell me something very bad about Cadbury's so I can now stop eating the stuff. If it was Nestle's, obviously could leave it on the shelf for ever more. Have Cadbury's been equally nasty? Reckon could slim down quite a bit as G&B's is the only chocolate I eat, linking it to moral revoltingness would do trick.

karter Wrote:

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> Piers says " And full selection of Green and

> Blacks. Excuse me must go shopping."

>

> Lots of places do not sell Green and Blacks

> anymore as they sold up and now are owned by

> cadburys or nestle, cant remember which

> (unethical)

[Wino]

Shouldn't we be celebrating the fact that we still have a choice of where we shop locally? Surely it is far better that we have two or three bods charging prices "fairly(in our mind)", what they can get away with, or realistically based on their overheads, than we are stuck with only one shop charging what it likes.

If you shop around for petrol you will find a wide variance in price depending on where you are, but it depends on how much you want to search and travel.

The majority of consumer items are far cheaper on-line than most retail outlets, but I still enjoy going to Chener books and having a proper browse and paying more than I would if I used the likes of Amazon etc. Once these places go, they are gone for good (I know for many this may not be a bad thing when it comes to Ralon and its infamous owner!)

[DulwichNanny]

The most shocking for me was a bottle of perfume sold in one Dulwich shop for ?60, well, I went to Makro with the family and found the same bottle of perfume for....?15!! I understand Makro sells things cheap for retailers, but that is a huge jump ?15 to ?60!!

[KalamityKel]

Was that before of after VAT?

[SeanMacGabhann]

isn't the flip side of all of this price arguing that if an employer can find someone who does the same job as you but a lot cheaper, they should just go with them ?

[MrBen]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> isn't the flip side of all of this price arguing

> that if an employer can find someone who does the

> same job as you but a lot cheaper, they should

> just go with them ?

Unless the person doing the job can clearly justify why they are more expensive. Which I guess vinly ring enforcers cant! Your man in Ralon might say they are super ring enforcers and twice the strength. But when its a like for like comparoison it is quite staggering.

My local example - if you ever need a picture framed, take it to northcross road, then take the same picture to Thames Galleries on ED Road. My quote was 50% cheaper for the pretty much the same at the latter.

[DaveR]

Everybody has a choice, and if everybody chooses to shop at the cheaper place, the more expensive one goes out of business. And if an even cheaper alternative is available.....etc.

Ah, the wonders of market economics!

[jocelyn]

I always think the Turkish supermarket on Forest Hill Road has loads of lovely food at bargain prices.

[rob]

"...SE22 is now corporate lawyer and banker country - they are working in a US culture and increasingly living it - hence lots of people here for whom money is completely divorced from reality or value..."

Oh please spare me. If you want to slog over to SE15 to buy your Clarks (does mummy know you're posting?) and save ?2.87 then good luck to you. But some of us have got stuff to do and don't mind paying a bit more to get what we want, when we want, where we want. That's not being "divorved from reality" it's just what happens when you have more pressig concersn than whiling away the time before tea because you've been asked to move on from the library.