Yes, there was one large unit I looked at down Whitefriargate a while back, where the rent was £50k a year and the rates payable £60k a year. Bonkers.
I once saw a figure of around 70%, that might be based on a high earner who pays 40% income tax, but nevertheless is it a lot of anyone earnings.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48988052 This article from the BBC sheds some light on the subject
Bloody hell Bought two suits from there yesterday cos you can’t try them on. Best take the one that didn’t fit back sharpish!
30 inch waist? Slim fit? Tailored for the slender gentleman? And yet it's still a bit snug on you Den? Send it up north. I may have to wear a belt but I'll make use of it I suppose.
Yep Decided to keep the roomy 32” waist ones instead. Chazz is recommending a suitable pie selection so they’ll fit without falling down.
Mate theres nowt anybody can do really because too many people can only buy cheap supermarket food and amazon for other stuff including me i cant be buying from butchers and independants id have no money within 2 weeks . Clearly bezos is a bit of a knobber if hes not paying tax or whatever but cant fault his hard work deserves reward , the market is demanding his companies services , its the way it is the market demands and things take the natural course . But yea if hes not paying tax then hes a full weighter (c**t).
I do appreciate if budgets are tight then of course you need to do what’s best. All I was saying was that if it’s an option then I’d rather avoid Amazon. The example I used was weirdly not a very good one for being prepared to spend a bit more, but actually accidentally a good one for shopping local. I’d assumed I might pay a little more, but as he’d spent such a long time helping me I thought that was reasonable, and I knew the price was in the ballpark of what I’d expected. However when I checked after in fact I’d paid less than the cheapest online price! Been back since for other things too and everything has been the same or cheaper than online. Made me wonder whether the likes of Amazon have got us all convinced they’re cheaper, but actually inflated prices back to normal prices, or whether local shops have had to cut to compete. Either way in that example local was far better, and cheaper. As far as supermarkets go I know there is a bit of noise around Aldi and Lidl tax, but at least they seem to pay a reasonable amount based on their profits, which show lower in the accounts than Morrison’s etc, but I don’t personally have such an issue with them. Yes it’s good to use local butchers etc, but you’ve got to be sensible and check whether that’s possible in budget. Some might be though
Another nail in the coffin of the high street are retail parks. I needed more 501's, Prem has gone, so, Macarthur Glen it is. They have a system of one out one in which caused queuing, not too long when I arrived. On leaving, the queue must have been in the hundreds. My first reaction, as someone who despises clothes shopping, was, they are mad. On reflection over a coffee and ciggie watching the queue grow that thought became quite the opposite. Everything in there must be available on the net, but they chose to spend their money in a real live shop. Paying the wages of the staff.
Yes there is, you can be thrifty and still look beyond the cheapest supermarkets, Amazon and Primark. Use the sales and offers in other shops. I went in town a few weeks ago when the stores reopened and was surprised at the queues for Primark, very good prices but not the best quality. The wife then took me in Debenhams, we were the only ones in there but the women's dresses had 75% off, better quality, prices and labels than Primark but no **** buying because the poor perceive only Primark to be best value? Result Debenhams go bust and the high street contracts further.
All fair points you made there . Me myself i like the continuity and predictability aspect of supermarkets like tesco , i get the same things all time because its tried and tested and i know i like them . I like the idea of helping independants don't get me wrong and if they compete or beat large chain prices then i could plan to gradually move to getting same things from them . Also youve got to think about home delivery , how many independant versions of tesco and amazon on the high street deliver stuff to your front door , lazy thinking maybe but again customers drive the market .
I don't know that people shop on Amazon because they think it's the cheapest , I think it's more the fact you can sit at home and have everything delivered to you without the effort of actually going out. I try to avoid buying from Amazon but I do look at the prices just to get an idea and I've noticed they do change all the time which is kind of interesting and obviously part of their success in maximising profit People do complain about Amazon but it's up to you if you buy from them or not
I helped set up an online business a couple of years ago and had my first real taste of how clever web retailers’, and more specifically Amazon’s, prices actually are. If you’ve noticed that their prices go up and down all the time then keep looking at one product regularly and you’ll see its price go up. Then look on another device and it’ll probably be the same price you first saw rather than the increased price you’ve noticed on your main device. That’s because on your main device they know you’re interested and can therefore charge you a bit more - the price isn’t Amazon’s price, it’s YOUR Amazon price. if you carry on looking without buying then at some point they’ll reduce your price again to a bit lower than you first saw in the hope that this will jolt you into buying, thinking you’re benefitting from a real bargain price, when the only person it’s really a bargain to is you as you’ve been conditioned by the tailored prices you keep having presented to you. The entire process is really haggling with an incredibly clever, and frighteningly expensive, algorithm.
I think your last line sums it up. If people complain about them, then they should simply stop using them.
