cheesypeas Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 You will be able to get 2 cheese & onion pastries for a £1.00 Not on the IOM sadly!!! 99% of anything from "across" certainely has a higher price on it, as opposed to the outlets in the UK (for example) so 2 Cheese and Onion Pasties/Pastries will probably not be £1.00 (speculation) and more like £1.20/£1.30?? This is why there is a lot more "online" purchases (resulting in local businesses not profiting from local sales, apart from maybe the lazy and guillable customers, who wouldn't know cheese from chalk and still pay over the odds prices in IOM shops!) for goods, petrol/diesel is usually put into tanks (fully) when going over to the UK and ther prices on clothes, electricals, food, etc is always (and will probbaly be) more than the UK ever?!?!?! TK-Max prices are still over what you can buy from a UK outlet (from what I have seen). I always buy my clothes/electricals/books/DVD's, etc, etc online as they are certainely cheaper and better quality (most of the time). Out of curiosity, are you Manx? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 But there are valid reasons for SOME differential in price here. We are a remote Island of 80,000 people and the UK is a country of 56 million. Economy of scale does come into it to a degree as does the cost of (expensive) transport and very high retail rents. On many online purchases, the seller is making a loss sending stuff here and you are simply getting away with it because they are taking a big carriage charge on the chin and are too large to realise or care. Some of the more savvy retailers will not accept offshore orders or else they will whack on an excess carriage charge. The Island retailer doesn't have that large bank of UK customers to fund your subsidy. As a matter of interest, what level of uplift to UK prices do you think is reasonable or are you willing to pay to shop locally? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manx Barge Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Will Paddy Mcguinness be signing photos there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB55 Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 have seen greggs bake your own in frozen food isle in shoprite yum yum : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YodaYessir Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Greggs have a deal with Iceland, so you might be able to pick up their stuff where Shoprite are stocking it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Peters Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 I was in England last weekend and chanced a Gregg's Meat and Potato Pastie. It was all wrong - sealed on all four edges. Tasted authentic though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_kit_4sale Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 I was in England last weekend and chanced a Gregg's Meat and Potato Pastie. It was all wrong - sealed on all four edges. Tasted authentic though! you should have told them who you are Stu! They keep the good ones under the counter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YodaYessir Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 They have to seal all the edges nowadays to stop the ingredients from escaping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_kit_4sale Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 They have to seal all the edges nowadays to stop the ingredients from escaping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollag Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 have seen greggs bake your own in frozen food isle in shoprite yum yum : Tried the Greggs frozen cornish pastie, from Shoplift, today---very nice indeed--i liked em! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donald Trumps Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 They are even better heated up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottydogg Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I went into a Greggs one morning when they had first opened , asked for a sausage roll , they said that they only had cold ones , i asked if she could pop it in the microwave for 30 seconds , she said they wern't allowed due to 'health and safety' The worlds gone mad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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