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e.g. In a well know clothes shop on Grafton St (its name is that of a tropical storm) yesterday Maude Flanders was llooking at an item that was priced in both pounds and euro.....£110 and €170. All might seem fine until you do a quick conversion of £110 using the current exchange rate.....€129.06.
BTW is outside the bounds of possibility to attempt to pay the £ price since the store left it on it? I had a bit of sterling in my pocket and was tempted to try it.....
Similarly the Irish Daily Star....I bought a copy at 60p in when I was in BallyCastle in Antrim a month ago, that equates to 70c. But low and behond, us mugs down here at paying €1.35 for it.....again HOW is that justifiable?
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Really not happy with this drivel out of the government. They need to make shopping attractive in ROI BY REDUCING RIDICULOUS PRICES .
Fair enough. Would you support a move on their part to cut wages here by 15% or so, in return?
ps please don't shout.
No, I would not take a pay cut. I think it's easier to take our high wages down here and spend them over the border
Fair enough. Would you support a move on their part to cut wages here by 15% or so, in return?
ps please don't shout.
Grand, once you're happy not to whinge about it. From what I see, too many others want to have their cake and eat it.
I was in a shop yesterday on Grafton Street where a British customer (judging by accent) was told by a shop assistant that she could pay the sterling price on an item using sterling, this doesn't seem fair to me, surely then we could argue to pay the sterling price by credit card if it was the case that we could choose which price to pay?
I never quiet got this phrase.
If you had a cake, why wouldn't you want to eat it
Well the forum is called Letting off Steam
I never quiet got this phrase.
If you had a cake, why wouldn't you want to eat it
Why are you confused? LOS is a discussion forum, which invariably means that opinions expressed here are discussed, analysed and sometimes criticised.
To take a different example, if I make a racist comment here, I cannot then claim that its okay to do so as the forum is called Letting off Steam.
What is annoying is that its not right for the minister to insinuate that its entirely the consumer's fault that they are going to the North when retailers are garnering huge profits and the government seems blissfully unaware (or else dont care).
I am perfectly aware of email etiquette etc. regarding shouting so I apologise if you took offense.
You still didn't answer my question
"Would you support a move on their part to cut wages here by 15% or so, in return?"
Don't worry, you didn't offend me, its just that users are requested in the posting guidelines to refrain from shouting, as it is "considered at best hard to read and at worst rude "
LOL, actually the guideline title is
"Please don't post a subject or message in ALL UPPER CASE CHARACTERS"
so its a matter of opinion if I am in breach of any guideline
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?Regarding the 15% question....no. If I take a 15% cut then the shop would need to reduce the cost of the item by 15%+ to make any difference and I just don't we would see that and prices wouldnt drop at the same rate.
No, but most are, in some shape or form.not all costs are driven by wages.
but for large chains like Monsoon (there I said it!!) etc. there is an unacceptable level of profiteering
Govt ‘will have to stem flow of shoppers across border’
Deputy Gormley is evidently learning from spending time in Government with Fianna Fáil. That is a classic FF approach 'someone really should do something about that'.
There is a serious issue here. Hundreds or thousands of individual purchasing decisions are benefitting the UK economy, at the cost of the welfare of Irish people. Irish people are very adept at disconnecting between cause and effect when it suits their purpose. There would be no drug gangs without a demand for drugs, yet there are people in this country who think that a weekend toot up the nose in Dublin is unconnected to murders in Limerick.
That is not to attempt to establish an equivalence between the drugs trade, and cross-border shopping, rather to illustrate a the point made above.
Spending thousands, or tens of thousands, on goods in the North impacts upon VAT revenues in our country. Without, or facing a reduction in, VAT revenues means cutting public services. There has to be some level of causality between cross-border shopping and public service cutbacks.
As documented in the active thread on boards.ie on shopping in Northern Ireland, the amount of spirits that people are claiming to buy in the North is creating a liver damage timebomb for this country in the future !
Comparing UK prices to EUR, at the current market rate, is a specious argument.
Comparing the price of an item in Grafton Street, with something that could be bought in Newry (and an implict assumption that the underlying costs of business in each location are the same) is also a specious argument.
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