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So I tell lies. Definitely my last call. Thought you were my friend Elizabeth. Not heard of the black coffee one- interesting as i do get them from time to time. thanks Liz.
J and B, that is some mark up, but what I was getting at in the posting.

And Jean, the shoes might last a long time but i won't.

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Berona, the typical mark-up now on goods is 100%, what with the cost of staff for the shops, shop rental and rates. A sale in most shops is a loss to them, but they need to get the goods passed on in order to buy new things. Though some places do put a lot more than 100%. There is a money borrowing advert on the tele, where the interest is over 1000%. Access is only 17!

I know of a shop which is mostly by catalogue or internet, and they produce excellent value shoes for around £60. which I know isnt cheap, but they last a long time.

Harry - I'm in Oz and we have the same thing here. Only this week, I saw an ad on TV for a suite of furniture - marked down from $1999 to $999 - that's half the price it was earlier and when you consider that it's not cheap to buy TV ad time and they can still sell the suite and make a profit - what kind of a profit mark-up did they have on it in the first place? It would have to have been over 100%.

Harry, Boots do their own cold sore cream and I have found it works as well as the branded one.

You can also use black coffee if you catch the sore as it begins to tingle, dip a clean cotton wool pad or ball into strong black coffee, no sugar!, and hold on the sore as hot as you can bear it.

Lizx

Dear Harry and All

Hello

Hope you are all okay.

You cheeky beggar!

I remember when a certain well-known shop sold a moisturiser for
£20-00, claiming it would give an instant youthful appeal.

The box it was in would have worked better!

Oh and shoes are ridiculously expensive and are not well made, either.

Take gentle care
Very best wishes
xx

My last call on this one. At our hospital they play musical chairs, someone sneaks into a place when somebody leaves - and of course without paying. Naughty, but understandable.

Sure there is a terrific mark up on thos products Jean.

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Parking at the hospital is so expensive, we drive to Monmouth and use bus passes to gothere. The bus Station is in walking distance. I am talking of £4 an hour and you know what hospitals are like!
What about the various types of pain relief with different names and prices, which if you read the ingredients are plain and simple aspirin.

Many thanks for the latest batch of replies. much appreciated. Re bus fares - always think they should be subsidised and free. Dentists are expensive, especially if you haven't got a NH one.
Washing products obviously concern you good souls, but not my country.

Re my original posting. cold sore cream (novavirox?) was £5.30 and a piece of foam to go over a corn was over £2.

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I had a thread up a couple of months ago re. the demise of the wash tablet, particularly those made by Surf. Did manage to find some made by Daz the other week, though. However, whichever supermarket you look around, particulalry in this area, and they are non existant.
Julia in Derbyshire

Annie, why not use the liquid in bottles, I wouldn't use capsules as I often found they didn't dissolve properly and I ended up with gunk stuck to sheets or whatever.
I still prefer powder and know how much I need to get the clothes clean, in our fairly new washing machine. When it's on offer I stock up.

In fact, that's what I do whenever I see a bargain, recently tesco had four tins of our favourite baked beans for £1 so bought several packs. Good old standby, beans!


Lizx

Dentists!- jle

I think I'll move to your neck of the woods Maggie.
It's £2 per single bus journey in London if paying cash. No discount for those who live a few stops up a steep hill and have shopping to take home either!
£2.70 for a days parking sounds a bargain.

Public transport fares!!
I live just over one and a half miles from the centre of town, slightly further than one of the 'Park & rides'
Car drivers pay £2.70 to park their cars for the day and get a free ride from one end of town to the other.
I pay £1.05 on public transport to get to the lower end of town, another 70p to get to the top of town (where I work), or, if I need to go to the hospital, (near the other 'Park & ride') another £1.25. And the same back again!
Yet some car drivers are parking near where I live to avoid paying £2.70 to park their car AND get a free bus ride that could cost me (without a car) £4.60!!
AND - because of where they park, if it's slightly icy, buses wont run because of the danger of running into these cars, leaving muggins to walk nearly two miles lugging shopping, and many elderly people virtually housebound.

Wouldn't know about that Elizabeth, but happy to take your word. Quite right about tradesman island in the snow.
There was one other reply which i was going to give a reply to, but it's gone. Vanishing cream perhaps.

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Dear Harry and All

Hello

Hope you are okay.

Moisturisers and beauty products!

Take gentle care
Very best wishes
xx

Tradesmen

That's true Harry, it's a case of one can't and the others wouldn't!

I think Eddie ought to have 'the good lady' take him shopping to stop him foraging in the freezers ;-))

Thanks for thr eplies. Jean - the expression is an old one. My hands stay in my pockets when the good lady takes me shopping.
Eddie - do you have some Yorkshire blood in you? It's a big list, though i agree with most of it.
Island, you never get any complaints from the customer if you will forgive me.

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