Cost of fags in WHS.. Victoria Station

[beansprout]

Yes, should have given up by now but haven’t.

Was waiting for my train yesterday and went into WHS on platform to buy a pack of fags. Almost feel to the floor when guy quoted me £28.00 for a packet of Silk Cut purple. Was a long day for me and thought I had totally misheard him! Asked again, only to be told that that was the price whuch is well over the odds..when I queried it as have bought, admittedly end of last year was told “ this is what management charges”. Surely this can’t be right…fags stayed in WHS paws while I bought some in Herne Hill at normal price.

Still reeling over shock….. 

 

 

[Spartacus]

Sire you weren't around the back of the station where asking for a fag has a whole different connotation

[Sue]

4 hours ago, beansprout said:

Yes, should have given up by now but haven’t.

Was waiting for my train yesterday and went into WHS on platform to buy a pack of fags. Almost feel to the floor when guy quoted me £28.00 for a packet of Silk Cut purple. Was a long day for me and thought I had totally misheard him! Asked again, only to be told that that was the price whuch is well over the odds..when I queried it as have bought, admittedly end of last year was told “ this is what management charges”. Surely this can’t be right…fags stayed in WHS paws while I bought some in Herne Hill at normal price.

Still reeling over shock….. 

 

 

Go to Luton Airport and buy them wholesale. 

Do it on an interest free credit card.

Sorted (financially, if not medically).

[malumbu]

Always astonishes me that governments who do so much to discourage smoking then allow cut price fags in duty free.  Since Brexit we can do as we wish.   Ideal place to take action. I'd happy get rid of duty free full stop.

[Sue]

9 minutes ago, malumbu said:

Always astonishes me that governments who do so much to discourage smoking then allow cut price fags in duty free.  Since Brexit we can do as we wish.   Ideal place to take action. I'd happy get rid of duty free full stop.

It was a joke!

I wasn't seriously expecting someone to leave the country in order to get cheap cigarettes!

[holloway]

Prices at WHS are ridiculous. I thought £4.80 was for the price of a meal deal when I went to buy a small bottle of orange juice. I was wrong.

[beansprout]

What I find strange, was when I was up here in Sept, fags were a pound or two more - fair enough.

What I can’t get me head around is  how-in 4  months it can go up that much…

I use either Waterloo or Paddington Stations and what has become very clear over the c last six months is how all retailers have added a pound or two along the way  on everything.. M and S, Starbucks, and all the chain or independents in stations. 

In future, thing I will be bringing my own sarnies for the journey - £2.80 for a cup of coffee on the train sounds very good compared to the prices  of chain cafes.