Had to use them to buy 2 x 6" pendant sets t'other day. £3:79 each!!
Also had two jobs where customer has bought Homobase own label 'one coat' emulsion. If it hadn't said so on the tin, I'd have thought it was normal paint. Not a patch on Wilkinson's.
Circumstances. Once in the south of England I *had* to buy a roll of coax from B & Q for three times what it would have cost at my normal suppliers, because the customer (it was a chain store) suddenly decided to add another 15 TV points. B & Q was almost next door, and it was 5pm. Needless to say I marked the cable up from the B & Q price by 33%.
Likewise I was forced to buy a pack of AAA batteries at the most ridiculous price from Morrisons because when I visited one of my more helpless friends in Leeds the batteries in his remote were flat.
And I once paid a small fortune for one recordable CD. I was in Limerick and I needed to post some data.
You're trading your time & convenience (which has a cost) against the inflated price of something you need right *now*. Might be galling, but sometimes you have no choice. Even then it can be a winner if you work out the cost of the hassle / inconvenience of getting a better price.
I use a lot of CR2032 button batteries in various items. Usually get them in boxes of 10 by by mail order. If I forget to do so, and have to buy a battery locally, there's no need to stick a GPS tracking device on my Zimmer frame to trace my route to the local shops. You can tell my route by the clouds of angry-looking steam emanating from the top of my head...even so, the need outweighs the cost.
Aside: I wish you wouldn't call them that: it's very Old Skool, not clever, and not funny, and above all it's unworthy of TMH that [I thought] I know and love!
I agree with you about their "pricing structures": we've just had one open here, so have had leisure to wander round: classic "marketing and presentation" aimed at their (increasingly not in accurate) idea of the general public: livestock, to be herded into the buying pens.
And on one or two occasions, chatting with the shopkeeper, I've been told he does his weekly grocery shop at a supermarket because it's cheaper than his wholesaler.
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