The Great British Rip off

mexico1970 said:
If I see a price I don't like I don't pay it, doesn't matter where I am just wont cough up. The OP has a good point, we are being ripped off and we have to vote with our wallets.
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Ditto .. at Leicester the scurlious ones were trying to extract £6.60 for a pint of lager and for me thats just a bridge too far.

Hospitality are in for the biggest roller coast ride of their lives and I wonder how long our own club can keep up the pretence with a cat A game retailing at £68.
 
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bluetonium said:
Unfortunately this is how it works. Costs go up, prices go up, people can't or won't pay, business fail. When you're already charging nearly fifteen quid for a njuja honey and fig pizza, and you have to looked pushing it up to nearer twenty, in an environment of cost consciousness and where essentials are also going up, the essential and non essential become even clearer.

Have a feeling quite a lot of these smaller micro artisan businesses could suffer most during the upcoming recession. If it were me at that festival then for £12 a pint I'd have stayed sober - it gives you a decision to make and whilst were all comfortable indulging now and again and set aside something for that, we also all have limits.

But I think the interesting dynamic we have here which we have not had before, is that we have a culture or generation who are very reliant on instant service, be in local shops open all hours, Netflix on demand or food on demand and delivered to your door. Their priorities may be different to what we'd expect. Will they view those as more important than other factors such as energy saving, going out etc?
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WTF is a 'njuja honey and fig pizza'. How trendy is that!
Whatever happened to the common or garden 'Ham & Pineapple' pizza commonly known as an 'Hawaiian'?
 
El_george said:
I've always wanted to try curling, you know that ice game that they play at the winter Olympics, not easy to do in England & I loved it on my Nintendo Wii. Last week found a place about an hour away that does it (Lancahsire) - part of a complex with bowling, arcades all that sort of thing. Met up with my lads and took them for a surprise.

I got the surprise: it was £25 each. Luckily they said, its Ok Dad - we don't fancy it. We did crazy golf instead and that was a rip-off too: £12 x3. The place had a real Centre Parcs vibe and for the first time in ages I felt really fed up to be 'working class' and I'm dreading the bloody winter. Thank god for Man City...

I actually think some people have come out of this pandemic quite well-off (and I don't just mean Matt Hancock's mates). But not me :(
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We did the same, took the Family as it's about half hour from me, Flower Bowl? We never did the curling and went round crazy golf twice to get my money's worth, expensive place.
 
Blue Maverick said:
It’s getting up there now mate, obviously some places are still cheap Wetherspoons and a few other bars but go to the places with the women in and it will cost you.
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I moved from Cambridge to Sheffield 18 months ago to be near 2 lads and City.
My youngest lives next to Piccadilly and has stopped going out reguarly as a pint of premium lager now near £7 in Northern Quarter.

Meanwhile I'm still paying £3.20 a pint of quality real ale in Kelham Island, the Sheffield equivalent. Eating out probably a third cheaper too.
 
The UK has been going that way for decades now, apart from the odd enclave, the North ( especially the cities) is now as expensive generally as the South. I went Watford recently and paid nearly £20 for a takeaway pizza - not a hint of honey on it either
 
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