Christmas coming up, so as per, I’m on the look out for for bits and bobs as it approaches.
This year will be a bit more more basic in all things, as prices, sizes and quality of everything deteriorates, to the point where it has become not worth it.
Lots of staples of the Christmas season are a joke in today’s corporate world.
I was in a designated cheap shop today, having a nosy around…
I’d heard a couple of years ago, that Christmas cracker manufacturers were bragging about dropping their novelty prizes, well it seems they have, but for simply cutting costs rather than their “green credentials” as their marketing pap likes to push out to the public.
This lower standard of product has combined with a notable price increase also.
Pay £10 and get crappy paper crackers, without novelties, but instead, a thrilling paper-chain, via each cracker that you can put together when they’ve all been used, to give you a mound of waste paper to chuck away, instead of a small novelty toy or puzzle!
Complete crap it is.
Or instead you can pay an inflated £6 price for the cheaper crackers, which come with a delightful shite puzzle to follow, then screw up with the cracker and chuck on the fire.
£6 quid! I ask you.
Next on the, “How to piss the customer off while extracting more money from” banner, are those Christmas traditional tubes of sweets.
You know the ones, jelly tots, smarties and buttons, etc.
Not only have the tubes shrunk, but they’ve also increased 25% in price.
Stuff that, I’ll find a different stocking filler to send to Father Christmas in it’s place.
Another must have on the Christmas time list, is of course the beer.
In our gaff, it’s mostly for the better half, but I’ve occasionally grabbed a snowball or martini on the festive season.
So I normally get in a few bottles of sherry, port and a couple of the baileys and a decent whisky.
I check the supermarket websites, as Christmas closes in, picking out the best prices and make a dart for them when the price drops.
Some of the prices are a complete piss take and those that are only up slightly on previous years have “was” prices that are out of a fantasy world!
Baileys, was £22 now £13… WHAT?
It’s never been £22, what kind of crap is that?
£13 is £3 over what it has been previously, a 30% increase.
Same with boxes of cans, all the same corporate supermarkets have put their prices up at the same time, what a coincidence!
These corporates think we don’t see what they are doing, subsidising reduced products with higher prices, waste of space they are.