Vendor spender
Richard Joyce contacted us in relation to the price of crisps in a vending machine in Pearse Street Dart Station. While waiting for his train he’s often partial to a bag of Hunky Dory crisps. At least he used to be.
“I’ve stopped buying them recently as there has been an exorbitant price increase. They previously cost 70 cent, but last month the price was increased to 90 cent - a 29 per cent increase,” he writes. “To demonstrate the haphazard way that they put the price up, they didn’t even have new price labels for the machine, but instead wrote the new price on a piece of masking tape and stuck it on over the original vending machine label.”
He points out that, as the main cost in Ireland these days seems to be labour, how can a 29 per cent price increase on vending machine-distributed foods be justified?
Richard is now hunky dorey and a lot wiser .He should have bought his crisps in a local super market, instead of supporting racketeering of the price fixing.Sticking a a piece of masking tape on a vending machine is both very technical and labour intensive.People who operate vending machines should not be supported until they fix a reasonable price for the items that they are vending
Comment by jim kelly | March 20, 2008 at 12:44 am