The fall guy, taken for a ride, the captive
audience, the idiot consumers.
One recent morning I headed for the train
station – fortunately early, which although it isn’t my want, worked due to a
train at the most reasonable hour of 10 a.m.
First glitch: bus dumping us out two stops early due to “heavy traffic
jams in the area”.
OK so it was a glorgeous day (combination
of glorious and gorgeous) and again having sufficient time I decided to walk
the rest of the way: through the park, over the main bridge, re-connecting with
my city.
Duly arrived in the train station I went to
the kiosk to buy some of my normal reading material – and couldn’t believe my
eyes when the cashier told me CHF 6.80 for a magazine that had a CHF 3.40
sticker on the cover – and which I bought for that price last week!
You’ve got to be kidding
Doubled from one edition to the other!
I had her run another one – labelled the
same – and got the same results. Her supervisor wasn’t there so I said never
mind. Went to another kiosk only to find the same price.
Who are we kidding here? Do they really
think that we pay so little attention to prices? Even I will no longer purchase
these magazines at those prices and I will make sure that all my local
English-speaking friends are aware as well so they might as well pack them back
up and send them to the publishers – the market is dry for the duration.
By-the-way I checked: it wasn’t a double
edition nor a Christmas edition, just someone deciding that gouging the
customer was fair.
Funnily enough the third glitch wasn’t one:
they were saying that my train was 18 minutes late – good thing I didn’t take
them at their word as we left only two minutes late. Oof lunch in Valence was
safe.
 |
| A recent edition of Woman's Own that I bought for CHF 3.40 |
No comments:
Post a Comment