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Many people are just stupid and will pay £2.99 to get an £10 item delivered rather than buying it nearby for £12 with no delivery costs.
(The time they save doing that is often used up by chasing shitty couriers for said delivery too.)
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no delivery costs
Maybe if the shop is next door. Otherwise you're looking at getting a bus/car for most people, which have associated costs. Not to mention to time taken to get it even if you walk/cycle.
£3 can be a bargain to avoid all that.
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99p so I don’t have to leave the house? Perfect
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That's not even true for the same store. I had to get a Tesco home delivery recently because
something I wanted was never in stock in the store.
Same thing with trying to piece together the ingredients for a potting mixture, multiple visits to the store even with checking their stock online didn't work, had to bin my cuttings.
Stores were dying before the pandemic and with the problems they have now it's worse.
mmccarthy
Howard
sohi
And yet their turnover in the UK is over a billion with profits of £130m+.
People in the UK are just addicted to cheap things and fuck the social consequences or quality of product/service.
And they aint going anywhere either, they're owned by one of the largest and wealthiest private equity firms in the world.