Customer wanted a handrail up the stairs & had looked in Wickes.
They wanted £48 for a 3.6m x 41mm handrail & nearly £9 for the brass brackets. £84 in total.
At a local timber merchant the handrail was £12, Screwfix brackets £1.99 each. Total cost £30.
Granted the handrail in Wickes was hemlock & the timber merchants was pine, but at a quarter of the price?