Lidl have a rather nice folding and locking knife which takes standard Stanley blades for 4 quid. Doesn't look much in the pics - but is beautifully made out of polished steel etc. Most of the retractable blade types you can buy are crap in one way or another.
There is nothing to prevent Lidl purchasing goods from China now - which I'm sure it does do anyway. The price of these goods will go up sharply after Brexit, as the pound will plunge against the dollar.
It's a good point. Most of the Lidl tools are marked as being of German origin - including this knife. Even on the knife itself.
And their power tools - or rather those I've checked on.
Now given they seem to be as good as any at the budget end and no more expensive, either they're not made in Germany, or it is possible to compete with the Chinese with such things.
Interesting. They can then source and sell UK made products etc in the UK at a good price - but the general view is 'we' can't compete with the low labour rates and lack of regulations and so on the far east benefits from.
So much for 'the uncertainty of brexit' That seems very certain, in your eyes... one is reminded of 'the science is settled, but we need a another trillion dollars for scientific research' from the 'Climb-it' community.
Of course the answer is that actually no one knows. New Zealand lamb will probably come down, and, as the Euro tanks, a lot of European produce too.
African food will be cheaper too. Once we are free to trade outside the close EU markets with their tariff barriers to protect the French and East European agricultural sectors.
With luck brexit will break up the EU and everything will get cheaper as European countries have to either lower their currency valuations, or get more efficient to compete in a free world market, rather than being protected by EU tariffs and subsidies
And /if/ "the pound will plunge against the dollar" UK made goods will become more attractive abroad. That's good for UK manufacturing! :-)
It seems the EU will not need out help to break up. France & Italy could be the next European economies to crash. As they are denied the option of devaluation, both countries have relied on debt-funded public spending to maintain economic activity and living standards. They both share problems of slow growth, unemployment, poor public finances and structural problems. They have found it difficult to reform and face an increasingly tough political environment. But the /real/ problem is the lack of competitiveness, and underlying many of these problems is the single currency.
The items they sell cheap tend to be stuff that isn't built by hand. We can in general compete with china on stuff that is built by robots (as long as the unions aren't demanding one robot + one man which they have been known to do).
Thinking of Lidl offers, this weekend I asked where to find their "?5 off ?40" vouchers which used to be in lots of newspapers and was told to try the Mail/Metro and also perhaps Lidl's web site.
Has anyone found this voucher on their site? I haven't.
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