Overall I saved 15% on average.
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Incidentally, a point to note, roads up North as far as Belfast are shockingly poor. You take your life in your hands driving in them in the dark or poor weather conditions. So many roadworks, badly lined out roads, no lights and just poor standard of road.
One thing I also noticed, Northern Drivers far better or more careful in their own country.
... I spent over €900.... Overall I saved 15% on average.
Did you make an allowance for the cost of motoring? Did you pay for a meal or a snack? Did you cost your time?
Did you really want or need everything you bought, or were you tempted by a few things that you would not have considered if you had shopped closer to home?
Interestingly, I bought a jar of Green and Black's Organic Chocolate drink in Tesco in Yeovil last week for £2.56 and see the same jar in the Republic retailing for €6.99. .
What I just cannot understand is that shoppers going to Newry are supporting the exact same shops that are using ridiculous sterling / eur exchange rates.
Argos, Next, M&S, Debenhams, River Island etc etc
OP in relation to the baby items, would you not have been better off waiting for the January sales?
Excuse me but I cut and pasted your post but I do so agree, spending to save money - madness, it's to replace the chatter about house prices going up. There is no discussion at all about what people are really saving. As in saving by not spending, now where are those people?But, in general I'm bored with this non stop clatter about how much cheaper shopping is elsewhere. its this obsession Irish people have with what I call 'saving by spending money'
If someone fills up a press with food that was cheap and they never use it and it goes off, then your point is valid.
There is no discussion at all about what people are really saving. As in saving by not spending, now where are those people?
Indeed, the consensus among economists and commentators in the likes of the Financial Times is that the recent bout of UK interest rate cuts will lead to significant price inflation in the UK in 2009 and beyond.I have been informed by a reliable source that one large curtain/pole retailer have adjusted their prices accordingly ie eg pole that was retailing for £80/€120 has now been adjusted on both sides to £90/€110. It seems the value wont last forever.
Indeed, the consensus among economists and commentators in the likes of the Financial Times is that the recent bout of UK interest rate cuts will lead to significant price inflation in the UK in 2009 and beyond.
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