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Just imagining myself waking up as a small grocer this morning the 1st of October.
Looking at my shelves of 4-litre bottles of milk at £1.50 a bottle and thinking that three things could justify me charging you double for your milk from today.
The minimum wage bill is increased from today. Let's put 50p on that bottle of milk! More cattle slaughtered over the weekend. Let's put another 50p on that bottle of milk! Ah!! Petrol Prices causing transport prices to go up. Lets put another 50p on that bottle of milk!
£3 Sir please. But it's ok as it is an "environmentally friendly" price increase. "Mental" being the appropriate part of "environmental"!!

Of course, if you sold organic milk you could get away with those prices anyway!

I noticed this today, too!

Midnight and Britain became an even more ridiculously expensive place to live. It pisses me off.

No wonder American tourists walk round London in a state of shock when they realise a cup of coffee is gonna cost them $6.00

I was in London last week and my friend and I wandered around Covent Garden and popped into a pub there for a quick afternoon pint. Two pints cost £8.60 ($17.20)!!!!!!

I nearly cried.

Which pub was it?

It's not uncommon to see shifty looking people crack open a can under the table and discreetly decanter it into their pint glass.

That or go to Wetherspoons.

rts wrote:Which pub was it?

It's not uncommon to see shifty looking people crack open a can under the table and discreetly decanter it into their pint glass.

That or go to Wetherspoons.

I think it was the punch and judy near Leicester square.

Whatever it was, it was a bit of a shit hole with grumpy bar staff.

Jamez wrote:

rts wrote:Which pub was it?

It's not uncommon to see shifty looking people crack open a can under the table and discreetly decanter it into their pint glass.

That or go to Wetherspoons.

I think it was the punch and judy near Leicester square.

Whatever it was, it was a bit of a shit hole with grumpy bar staff.

Not the best place to go after a hard day's work, it was awful.

If it's the one on the corner with the upstairs balcony bit, I paid £3 for an orange juice recently. Henry's is good for value for money, near Pizza Hut.

Jamez wrote:Two pints cost £8.60 ($17.20)!!!!!!

I nearly cried.

Have you not been to London before?

That's what I was thinking. Covent Garden rates won't be cheap.

If you want expensive beer, go to Norway.

Sput wrote:

Jamez wrote:Two pints cost £8.60 ($17.20)!!!!!!

I nearly cried.

Have you not been to London before?

Yeah, but never been charged £4.30 a pint before.

In Cardiff I've been charged £8.10 for 2 bottles of some WKD/Smirnoff/Alcopop shite before, but I expected that as it was the Hilton hotel. But not some shitty dive in a covent garden back street.