Taking the vi negre
When I got home from shopping this morning and opened my email, I found a new message from Majestic Wines, telling me about a special offer, a 2009 Reserva Rioja for only £6.99, a reduction on the list price of £10.49, but only if I bought two.
That got my attention; not least because I’d just bought the same product in Spain for the regular ALDI list price of €3.99, or £2.90 at the current rate of exchange.
Okay, duty on wine is a lot higher in the UK than in Spain, but I flat out do not believe that the £4.09 difference in price between the Spanish bottle and the Majestic version . . . or the £7.59 difference if you only buy one . . . is accountable entirely to taxation.
We are being seriously ripped off in Britain by the supermarkets and the wine warehouses. It’s time we made a large fuss about it.
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You’re paying for everybody’s mortgages when you buy anything in the UK.
Or funding dividend payments to the institutional shareholders who own Majestic, Tesco, etc.
You’re paying for everybody’s mortgage/rent when you buy anything in the UK.