I still hate the Chancellor

[supertinks]

so this whole VAT cut issue. Not only is it still causing me mountains of hassle at work, but I really am starting to get annoyed with it from a consumer point of view. How is it supposed to encourage me to shop?

I bought fidget a new collar yesterday, as he lost his purple one (the new one is an incredibly cutesy pale baby blue - icky, but it was that or baby pink!). It was £2.99 on the shelf. "Fair enough" says I, and buys it. At the till, I get my VAT discount. A whole 7p. Oooooh.

And today, I bought a skirt from Next (I have a thing about skirts right now, I need more of them! probably because they always fit better than trousers). Label says £30. Goes through the till, it actually costs me £29.36. A saving of a whole 64p. Makes no difference to my brain when it comes to rationalising the cost, because if the label had said £29.36, my brain would have just gone "ok, its £30" and carried on from there.

So what is the point????

Comments

[putrescine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sorry, that was a bit Daily Mail of me. It just annoys me because people like that make life harder for the people who do actually need the benefits system, such as carers and the disabled.

[supertinks.livejournal.com]

you are absolutely right.

this whole country is a shambles

[black-faery.livejournal.com]

Maybe we could just go set up our own country, say, on the Isle of Wight. Turf off all the OAPs that live there, and only allow people who want to work, people with intelligence and law-abiding citzens. Let the UK fall to pieces and we'll live our own happy little lives :-)

I think it has its merits...