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Post by Clinton Cool on Jun 24, 2021 6:43:32 GMT
Cost of bringing goods over from China are crazy still, this time of the year a 40ft box would cost you £1000, today it’s anywhere up to £20k. If I was a foxy kind of guy, I would be pointing the Covid finger firmly at China…. Ooh .. another conspiracy theory from Dave... from £1,000 to £20,000.... how's your tin foil hat, Dave? If commodities are going up and up in price, surely the value of houses are plummeting - time to stock up on food whilst you can still afford it. As the New World Order elite have been saying, you will own nothing and be happy. Wearing the mask and taking the jab is the sign of your subservience. It is so very hard to admit you have been fooled. No. All the false money being printed off to feed Tracey and her large brood of kids doesn't stay with Tracey. She spends it as fast as she can get it. If they doubled the activity of the printing presses and sent it all to Tracey, she'd still spend it. This money works its way through the system until it sticks somewhere. And so, we have a number of people with wads and wads of cash. These people aren't stupid, they know the money isn't real. If they keep hold of it the fact that it's not real will manifest itself by the money becoming worthless. So, rather than lose the money in this way they buy houses, which are real, and have a value. You can't print a house. All the people with buckets of cash compete to buy houses before the cash becomes worthless. And so, house prices go up. Simple really.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jun 24, 2021 7:48:25 GMT
Indeed, an open packet is an empty packet .... Best to finish them as soon as possible, no-one wants to eat a soggy biscuit.
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Post by thebfg on Jun 25, 2021 6:25:24 GMT
Not so. RPM (Retail Price Maintenance) is illegal. "What are the implications for Recommended Retail Prices? The prohibition on RPM does not mean that suppliers cannot suggest Recommended Retail Prices (RRPs). Any RRP must only be just that, a recommendation, and the retailer must remain free to determine independently the price at which it resells the products to its customers". I was about to simular. I've worked for a retailer for 21 years and it still confuses me somewhat. The law says European Union (EU) competition law prohibits resale price maintenance (RPM), which it defines as "agreements or concerted practices having as their direct or indirect object the establishment of a fixed or minimum resale price or price level." However that would make minimum price for alcohol illegal, but is a requirement in law and is stipulated in the premises licence. It also makes price marked items illegal, which of course aren't. I am aware that a shop can sell a product for less than the PMP says. But its borderline price fixing as well.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jun 25, 2021 7:51:52 GMT
How about those multipacks that state 'not to be sold separately'. Illegal?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jun 25, 2021 8:06:17 GMT
How about those multipacks that state 'not to be sold separately'. Illegal? Depends. It's not illegal per se but it is a breach of contract between the shopkeeper and the manufacturer. Where it technically becomes illegal is that food is required to be labelled with certain information and with a multipack this information is often only provided in full on the outer wrapper.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2021 8:07:32 GMT
Always makes me laugh when they put on the bottles of spring water about not being allowed to fill it with anything else.
It's so silly. I know why it is but it's still ridiculous.
Implication being that you don't own the bottle. I wonder if they would like to come and collect it then.
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Post by Jim on Jun 25, 2021 11:59:52 GMT
Always makes me laugh when they put on the bottles of spring water about not being allowed to fill it with anything else. It's so silly. I know why it is but it's still ridiculous. Implication being that you don't own the bottle. I wonder if they would like to come and collect it then. It's to stop people filling them with recycled pond water.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2021 12:04:43 GMT
I thought it was to stop people pissing in them, throwing them on central reservation during high traffic density situations followed by other people being put off buying Evian as it looks a bit too yellow.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2021 13:41:44 GMT
Always makes me laugh when they put on the bottles of spring water about not being allowed to fill it with anything else. It's so silly. I know why it is but it's still ridiculous. Implication being that you don't own the bottle. I wonder if they would like to come and collect it then. You can re-fill them with anything you please but the reason for not doing so is (allegedly) that the substance used to make the bottle (or is it lining it) has a limited time before it breaks down, and since it is toxic peeps are advised not to ingest it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2021 13:42:57 GMT
That's well clever packaging drinking water in a toxic container.
Nice planning!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2021 17:35:21 GMT
That's well clever packaging drinking water in a toxic container. Nice planning! Best stick to river water.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jun 25, 2021 17:42:36 GMT
Always makes me laugh when they put on the bottles of spring water about not being allowed to fill it with anything else. It's so silly. I know why it is but it's still ridiculous. Implication being that you don't own the bottle. I wonder if they would like to come and collect it then. You can re-fill them with anything you please but the reason for not doing so is (allegedly) that the substance used to make the bottle (or is it lining it) has a limited time before it breaks down, and since it is toxic peeps are advised not to ingest it. I've always wondered why water, that may have been on and around the planet for millions of years, recycled many times, was safe to drink when it falls from the sky, but only had a relatively short lifespan when packaged for sale. Now I know. Thanks for that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2021 18:50:50 GMT
That's well clever packaging drinking water in a toxic container. Nice planning! Best stick to river water. I intend to.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jun 25, 2021 19:06:48 GMT
I thought it was to stop people pissing in them, throwing them on central reservation during high traffic density situations followed by other people being put off buying Evian as it looks a bit too yellow. "Truckers' Tizer".
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Post by thebfg on Jun 27, 2021 18:27:19 GMT
How about those multipacks that state 'not to be sold separately'. Illegal? Depends. It's not illegal per se but it is a breach of contract between the shopkeeper and the manufacturer. Where it technically becomes illegal is that food is required to be labelled with certain information and with a multipack this information is often only provided in full on the outer wrapper. I was reading that trading standards aren't really that interested in the packaging either. As long as the product is something everyone knows like cola, if there's no allergy issue then they would unlikely follow it up.
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