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Post by Andyberg on Mar 22, 2017 4:38:28 GMT
Just as 'The Stayers' predicted, Brexit has its first major casualty....
MyWaitrose members can no longer get free tea or coffee unless poor lovies have purchased something first!! According to social media, its all Brexit's fault!!...
I priced a Thetford cassette loo for a job I was doing before Xmas, priced up at £289....went to purchase it early January and every supplier had put their prices up to £329! When I questioned it with a couple of supplies was told 'Its Brexit isn't it Govner? How that warranted a 14% overnight increase baffles me, especially a British Company selling in the UK??
So, is a free Waitrose coffee cut the start of the downturn or is it just another money-grabbing business taking the piss & using it as an excuse?
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/waitrose-free-coffee-tea-and-everyone-is-downright-furious_uk_58d134dde4b0ec9d29df549c?utm_hp_ref=uk-news
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Post by Clinton Cool on Mar 22, 2017 6:52:41 GMT
Brexit was, and is, bound to bring lots of changes. As would have 'remain', over time.
Change is the only constant.
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Post by thebfg on Mar 22, 2017 8:03:27 GMT
How much of it is an excuse?
The Waitrose free drink was being removed in October because it attracted the "wrong type" of customer
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Post by bodger on Mar 22, 2017 8:53:32 GMT
Does nobody remember when prices went up immediately after decimalisation?
Any excuse to try it on, and why wouldn't they?
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Post by ianali on Mar 22, 2017 12:22:21 GMT
I had the same reason given by a bike parts supplier when ordering some parts for my old Kawasaki. Had to be sourced from America so guess it's down to the weaker exchange rate.
Ian.
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Post by tonyqj on Mar 22, 2017 12:29:20 GMT
I do some video work for a national supplier who sources 90% of their stuff abroad - much of it from China. They had to delay publishing their 2017 catalogue until they could nail down prices guaranteed in Sterling for the next x months. The devaluation of the GBP put many of their prices up, but not by nearly as much as much of the scare-mongering had suggested. Some items by 1%, some up to 5% more, some not at all.
Anyone who's using the exchange rate as an excuse for 10% and 20% rises is simply gouging.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 22, 2017 15:29:07 GMT
£1 = 1.15 Euros today. It was £1 = 1.40 when we bought our British cash last May. The fact is, that the Pound has dropped - why I can't say - so you all should get your fingers out and do some work instead of just moaning!
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 22, 2017 15:36:25 GMT
£1 = 1.15 Euros today. It was £1 = 1.40 when we bought our British cash last May. The fact is, that the Pound has dropped - why I can't say - so you all should get your fingers out and do some work instead of just moaning! That's nothing, I got $4 per £1 in 1981, now it's just $1.25 per £1. Decades of slowly going down the drain, the truth obfuscated, every big slip blamed on world economics in general.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 22, 2017 15:40:12 GMT
It's as if everyone in Britain has had a pay cut of around 25% and no-one is complaining very much.
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 22, 2017 15:41:54 GMT
It's as if everyone in Britain has had a pay cut of around 25% and no-one is complaining very much. Only if you only shop abroad for everything.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 22, 2017 15:47:29 GMT
Everything in Britain is cheaper for us, so thank you, Brexiteers!
But, honestly, this Brexit business is a farce. First give that old boot Theresa May a shove into the (turd-infested) Thames, then turn Britain into a powerhouse of industry, ingenuity, cleverness, tidy, clean, well-dressed citizens. If the rest of the world won't buy your professionally made good quality products, then just keep them and use them for yourselves. You CAN survive without French snails and Edam cheese (which is plastic, anyway).
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Post by peterboat on Mar 22, 2017 16:26:21 GMT
I am in Malta and can assure you stuff has gone up here since last year, so it's just the rip off world we all live in
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Post by Andyberg on Mar 22, 2017 16:28:49 GMT
I am in Malta and can assure you stuff has gone up here since last year, so it's just the rip off world we all live in Yup I noticed that a couple of weeks ago!
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Post by jam on Mar 22, 2017 21:44:10 GMT
£1 = 1.15 Euros today. It was £1 = 1.40 when we bought our British cash last May. The fact is, that the Pound has dropped - why I can't say - so you all should get your fingers out and do some work instead of just moaning! In 2008/2009 £1 = around 0.95 Euros so low rates of exchange are nothing new.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 21:52:01 GMT
I am in Brazil and can assure you stuff has gone up here since last year, so it's just the rip off world we all live in
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