Comparing price points
A hard played game, lots of good hits, and I don’t hurt a bit. Football on TV; rough stuff for the rest of us.
Today, the Rouge et Or capped another perfect season, locally. The Dunsmore Cup will stay in town for another twelve, and the other “up and comers” can watch game tapes to figure out how to top excellence. Unlike earlier matches, this game stayed on the fence until the final, final, in your face interception after the clock had run down. I wasn’t stressed, unlike my partner, who was starting to take things personally. Rookie!
There are two more big weekends between here and the grand prize. I will be on watch.
On CBC, the question: “Cross border shopping: Are you taking advantage of the high dollar?” Why, no I’m not. No passport, no time, no pressing need that would be covered by travelling two hours to a box store much like the ones in my own neighbourhood. I do appreciate a strong loonie, though.
Some recent pricing of a gadget made me wonder how prices are set? The same package: in Toronto, $120 CDN. In New York, $85 CDN. In London, $65 CDN. For something manufactured in Taiwan and shipped onward… It gets worse. Shipping charge from Toronto, $15. From New York, $45. From London, $16.
Shopping locally is laudable, but we have to figure that the original wholesale price didn’t vary (much) from dealer to dealer. All the rest is a combination of taxes and greed. Greedy taxes. Greedy merchants. And the wise consumer can shop.
