Goods values in UK / Canada
#16
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#17
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Cadbury's Giant Buttons and pickled onions ( now that Bulk Barn no longer keeps them) are high margin products.
#19
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Fortunately not. I didn't buy them at the market this morning because there was a queue in the shop. I went instead to a Bulk Barn where the owner couldn't grasp the concept of the pickled onion. I then went to a Bulk Barn that used to have them where the woman told me, sniffily, that they don't carry them anymore. I then walked into an independent grocers.
"May I help you?"
:"I'd like to buy a jar of pickled onions"
"What kind?"
"Haywards if you have them"
"Well, yes, but the regular ones, the strong ones?"
In the end I bought Thornton's. Hayward's are marginally better, I think.
"May I help you?"
:"I'd like to buy a jar of pickled onions"
"What kind?"
"Haywards if you have them"
"Well, yes, but the regular ones, the strong ones?"
In the end I bought Thornton's. Hayward's are marginally better, I think.
#20
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Location: White Rock BC
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Re: Goods values in UK / Canada
I'm grateful for the links and the information provided by CanadaJimmy. Now I wonder what the (extra) shipping costs for a bed would be!
#22
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Location: White Rock BC
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Re: Goods values in UK / Canada
Ah yes, sorry, I misled you. I meant the cost of shipping a bed from the UK (in addition to all my other stuff which might fit in a 20' container but I have my doubts). So we have cost of buying in the UK + shipping v cost of buying in BC with free shipping from the store.
#23
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Location: White Rock BC
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Re: Goods values in UK / Canada
By comparison, my annual 'energy' bill is about £1000 per year split £550 for gas which provides room and water heating and £450 for electricity. That's for a 3 bed bungalow near the south coast.
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Re: Goods values in UK / Canada
I gave you a couple of other options for cheaper beds in my post.
You might find these links of use:
https://britishexpats.com/wiki/Shipping-Canada
https://britishexpats.com/wiki/Compa...f_Goods-Canada
https://britishexpats.com/wiki/Bed_Sizes-Canada
#25
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A 20' 'exclusive use' shipping container from the UK to Canada (incl packing) would run at £GBP5000 to maybe £6000. Add to that the cost of insurance (do NOT buy this direct from the people doing the packing or shipping for you, try Letton Percival). If you 'share' a container, the costs reduce.
#26
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I ordered curry to take away. Since I had time to kill I went into WalMart (an eye opening experience, who knew there were so many people in Orangeville who don't fit their clothes?) and looked at the Marmite. It's $4.79.
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Re: Goods values in UK / Canada
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/marmite.../6000188762674
https://www.loblaws.ca/Food/Pantry/B.../p/20091055_EA (Fortinos - same group, same price)
https://www.loblaws.ca/Food/Pantry/B.../p/20091055_EA (Fortinos - same group, same price)
Last edited by Siouxie; Dec 3rd 2019 at 2:44 pm.