Lion Bar = €1.05

FunkZ · 20-02-2008 04:58PM

"Apache charged me 22e for a 16" pizza one time, and they wouldn't let me use a voucher. They also charged me 5e for delivery..."

:rolleyes:

RonMexico · 20-02-2008 05:01PM

grahamo wrote: »

The reason for the price increases is GREED! Greedy wholesalers Greedy shopkeepers etc. As long as mug punters pay the rip off prices, the greedy shopkeepers will keep putting prices UP.
Even with wheat prices, cocoa prices and whatever else going up there's no justification in charging 1.05 euro for a bar of chocolate. Even with shopkeepers whingeing about having to pay minimum wage to staff, they are still making BIG profits.
Lets face it. If it wasn't worth there while they wouldn't be doing it!

Big profits my hole, excuse me do you own a shop or something? Independent small shops around the country are barely surviving and closing by the day. FACT.

NeMiSiS · 20-02-2008 05:05PM

emo!! wrote: »

ha feck where used you buy your cornetto , 70 euro:eek:

They were 50p when I was a child. Inflation must have them up about that price no ? :rolleyes:

humanji · 20-02-2008 05:08PM

unclebill98 wrote: »

sorry, left out that it was a meat plus 4....

Ah, now you're justified

ScumLord · 20-02-2008 05:09PM

Just ran down to me local mace and got me a Lion bar, 90c. You are indeed being raped like a cat.

blackbelt · 20-02-2008 05:10PM

Cathooo wrote: »

what's the world coming to? what happened to them being 15p?

I remember back in the good old days when Tayto crisps used to 12p.
With the introduction of the euro and the rise in minimum wage,the prices have spiralled 4 or 5 fold.

When unions and the government realise not to raise minimum wages,inflation will decrease or stabilise and our economy will get back on track again.However,the euro has created a small climate of feeling ripped off even if its beneficial.Cost of drink, food and smokes etc are probably the more obvious cases.

cjt156 · 20-02-2008 05:18PM

6p Taytos of my misspent youth! Does anyone remember candy-coated popcorn for 4p in a yellow bag? And Yorkies were 25p - I remember being given £1 & treating 3 of my mates.
And being being disgusted at the extortionate price of a child fare home from town on the 45 bus - 18p.

RxQueen · 20-02-2008 05:21PM

this thread is making me hungry!

missingtime · 20-02-2008 05:21PM

I got charged over a euro for a twirl before but i said forget it. Another centra as well. I'm thinking about boycotting them.

It's stupid if you pay for it and then complain, they are only going to keep charging them.

If it was a little corner shop, with the tv in the next room, you could understand but ffs its centra.

rubadub · 20-02-2008 05:39PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Just ran down to me local mace and got me a Lion bar, 90c. You are indeed being raped like a cat.

How much would the difference be if you had got it in the supermarket. Base your extra time on the minimum wage, and include petrol costs etc.

missingtime wrote: »

If it was a little corner shop, with the tv in the next room, you could understand but ffs its centra.

I expect to pay more in a centra. They are just franchises, so the owner has that cost ontop of all the other costs. Centra just go to a cash & carry like others.

I expect to pay more due to the franchise and advertising costs, just like ipods and advertised beer costs more for essentially the same thing.

Kintarō Hattori · 20-02-2008 05:41PM

OOhh the price of things in the likes of Centra and Spar is highly annoying which is why I try not to spend money in them. Spar on Parnell Street charged 99c originally when the 350ml bottles of Coke came out. They then upped them to €1.05, then €1.10 and now €1.15. Their 500ml is about €1.55 now and loads of their bars are well above the €1 mark.

You pay a price for convenience.

AlmightyCushion · 20-02-2008 05:44PM

the dee wrote: »

It's cheaper to buy most things in the supermarket. My local shop sells all chocolate bars for 90c. A small soft drink is €1.45 in Centra. A 2litre bottle of the same drink is €1.58 in tesco.

Supermarkets ftw!

True. Tesco sell lucozade orange for around 80 cent, every where else it's 1.50 maybe even more, nearly double the price. Screw that. It was even better when I worked there, 10% staff discount ftw.

ScumLord · 20-02-2008 05:51PM

rubadub wrote: »

How much would the difference be if you had got it in the supermarket. Base your extra time on the minimum wage, and include petrol costs etc.

That's a good point, I'll have to buy another Lion bar now. Not to worry I like em and haven't had a reason to go on a Lion bar binge since last August.

Blisterman · 20-02-2008 05:57PM

Well, on a posisitve note, Sainsburys are selling easter eggs, the type with a medium sized egg, and 2 bars of chocolate, for £1 each.
I remember them being £4 each circa 1995.

So, some things are getting cheaper nowadays. Well, as long as you live in the UK.

matrixroyal · 20-02-2008 06:00PM

I think we all need to get some guts and speak up for ourselves.

We have turned into an obedient lot, getting ripped off, by people serving us with hostility and just paying up, making silent promises to ourselves about not going back to that place / complaining to the manager - which we never follow through on.

Repeat after me :

In future I will make a fuss at the counter and not buy anything that is excessively priced. ( if only to let them know that somebody is price-concious )

I will not be afraid to ask for a receipt ( shock horror ) without the potential shame of somebody else looking at me because I am so mean / poor that I have to check my change.

I will check my change ( you would be surprised how often it is wrong but we are too shy to even look at it, we just put it away quick )

If the server is downright rude, I will shame them into at least looking at me and then I might even say loudly "thank you" to force them into saying the same.

the dee · 20-02-2008 06:07PM

matrixroyal wrote: »

Repeat after me :

In future I will make a fuss at the counter and not buy anything that is excessively priced. ( if only to let them know that somebody is price-concious )

I will not be afraid to ask for a receipt ( shock horror ) without the potential shame of somebody else looking at me because I am so mean / poor that I have to check my change.

I will check my change ( you would be surprised how often it is wrong but we are too shy to even look at it, we just put it away quick )

If the server is downright rude, I will shame them into at least looking at me and then I might even say loudly "thank you" to force them into saying the same.

I agree with all but your first point. I worked in a newsagents part time for 2 years. I had absolutely no control on the prices. The manager had no control over the prices. You pay for them at the cash and carry, there is then a rrp list that tells you how much you should sell things for. The profits on each item are a lot smaller than you think.

If a customer complained to me about the price of something I'd tell them 'that's just how much it costs' and secretly think they're a whingey ****.

Bodhidharma · 20-02-2008 06:23PM

I was charged 1.40 for a splash of lime for my Jack Daniel's in Dublin last week. The insanity of it just made me confused. I couldn't get my head around it. And still cant.

35 cent for Chicketees and Wheelies seems a bit harsh to me also. I remember them being 10p.

ScumLord · 20-02-2008 06:33PM

Blisterman wrote: »

So, some things are getting cheaper nowadays. Well, as long as you live in the UK.

I think you'll find we don't!

Stupid rip off Republic, should have stayed put. :mad:

Jigsaw · 20-02-2008 06:41PM

I remember Polos at 11p - they are now 45p.

I remember 10 Regal King Size at £1.25 - they are now £2.60

Dun laoire · 20-02-2008 06:54PM

fuk that for a game of soldiers.

A honeybee bar and 2 penny jellys to round off the 10 pence. 80's was wonderful.

Sam Vimes · 20-02-2008 06:56PM

Xavi6 wrote: »

Chips, sausage and a can - £1.50 lunch time special from Macari's. Those were the day.

i used to get that most days for my lunch back in good old ccc. Its the standard i use to measure how much we're being ripped off because its the first thing i noticed being more expensive when the euro came in

artanevilla · 20-02-2008 06:56PM

No so long ago it was 20cent for one of them mint crisp bars, 55c the other day. Absolute joke.

mspsycho · 20-02-2008 07:00PM

Tell me about it, the prices nowadays are crazy.

Donuts costing 1.60-1.80 in the new spar that has just opened, cans costing 1.20 and dont get me started on there crispes 1.15 for a packet of tayto AND it was a pack from a ruddy multi pack (Girlfriend bought all of this and when I seen the recipt I almost had a heart attack.)

Nowadays I stick to what I can get in the weekly shoping and if needs be im sure the other half has a few bars stashed in her handbag

Zonda999 · 20-02-2008 07:09PM

1.15 for a pack of tayto's from a multipack.You are joking surely???In a spar where i often go to get some lunch, i pay 57c for a normal(not multipack)pack of taytos(which i often buy).If the prices in this store near you really are that high, people really will stop going there.Irish people are used to a little over average pricing in some places but not f**kin double prices.Daylight robbery...

Btw i didnt think it was legal to sell bags from a multi-pack singularly???

mspsycho · 20-02-2008 07:13PM

I know I went in and complained and all they said was they were within there right to sell at any price they wish and ive been thinking about that, Im not sure if it's illegal but I have a feeling tayto wouldnt be too happy with it so I don't know if I should press on it or leave it (mainly due to lazyness)

Zonda999 · 20-02-2008 07:24PM

So clearly, same franchise dont mean same prices.Ye know i dont think that Spar ireland would be too happy about it either IMO......Stores like that are giving their franchise a bad name.

Raskolnikov · 20-02-2008 07:30PM

Multipack Tayto bags are always smaller than individually sold ones, so by paying €1.15 you were doubly shafted.

My pet peeve is still the price of still water. Deep River Rock (perhaps the biggest misnomer of a name on the bottled water scene) is a scandalous €1.50 for a 500ml bottle. At least with Ballygowan or Volvic, you know it's somewhat natural. River Rock on the otherhand desn't come from a well, spring or river at all! It's simply tap water with a bit of filtering!

unclebill98 · 20-02-2008 07:41PM

humanji wrote: »

Ah, now you're justified

Thank you, at least someone noticed my rant

zAbbo · 20-02-2008 07:45PM

RonMexico wrote: »

You people amaze me. Ever think that the reason they have gone up is because the have gone up at the wholesale distributor? Why? Because the price of milk and wheat have gone up. Small shops cannot buy in bulk like Tesco and Dunnes and therefore they do not get the same deals as those that buy in bulk.

The days of the small corner shop are over. Get used to it.

Small shops like Centra, with over 400 stores in Ireland, part of the Musgrave group who have over 900 shops in Ireland, and are also one of the largest wholesale cash & carrys...

They're just being greedy fcukers, but the public are to blame for buying over inflated crap.

Aldi do lovely twix replicas for about 30c

rubadub · 20-02-2008 07:49PM

the dee wrote: »

. I worked in a newsagents part time for 2 years. I had absolutely no control on the prices. The manager had no control over the prices. You pay for them at the cash and carry, there is then a rrp list that tells you how much you should sell things for.

RRP is "recommended", and you said "should" sell yourself. I do agree though cash & carries are a ripoff too, many things cost more in a cash & carry than in supermarkets. Some shops do charge a lot, I see no real problem, nobody is forcing me, and there is no real cartel/monopoly.

On the upside 15 years ago the cheapest can of beer I could get was £1 (€1.27) bottles costed even more. Now there is a massive selection of bottles and cans at €1, or as low as 60C sometimes.

Hash has gone down similarly, and other recreational drugs have plummeted in price. But then you end up in spar blowing it all due to a wicked dose of the munchies

Lion Bar = €1.05

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