to think you shouldn't complain about the price?

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'That's expensive! Bloody hell! I could get XXXX for that. In 1972 you could get that for £2.51... rarrr rarrrr waffle wafflee moan moan moan'.

I don't work on a market stall. I don't make up the prices.

I don't stand at the supermarket checkout/ petrol station whatever and bitch on to the till operator about how much things cost.

If I need to ask the price and something costs more than I want to pay I'd say 'thank you' and leave.

AIBU to think these people have no social skills?

YANBU

Depends on the situation. There are some places where I would never pay full ticket price because they expect people to barter - I don't complain though, just ask what their best price is and then either buy the item or not depending on whether I think it's a fair price or not. Recently I was in a store where there was a price match offer displayed - a similar local store had what I was after but $30 cheaper; when the price match wasn't honoured I didn't complain, just went to the other store.

Yanbu. I used to work in an independent local supermarket. The amount of people who used to say something like "80p? 80p? I can get that for 50p at the big tescos 5 miles away" ! Used to mutter under my breath "well there's your answer then"

We are of the opinion that if you've got to ask what it costs then you can't afford it. So we dont ask .

What are you selling and why dont you have price tags on though?

Depends. If you're buying a new kitchen, barter your arse off. If it's a packet of B&H, suck it up.

I took my dad to Borough Market and he haggled 5p off an apple tart .

I think whingeing about prices is ingrained in the British psyche.

sometimes if you haven't bought something for a long time and the price has shot up it can't really take you by surprise.

Eg a can of Coke....A FUCKING POUND !!!! They were 30p last time I bought one.

I was in asda and lynx shower get was like £2.50

I thought oh expensive and moved on

Because I knew in 2 weeks it would be 'rolled back' to £1

and it was. Gotta have things at full price on occasion so they can be legally described as discounted in 2 weeks

see kayano you thought it.

I would have to say you are both reasonable and unreasonable

There's having a general moan about prices which I think is not a bad social thing. It's a sort of connecting. Oh my, hasn't the price of fish gone up...

Then there's haggling. You can't haggle over petrol prices or a can of lynx obviously but there's lots of stuff you can negotiate a bit off, so you'd begin that by saying ooh, come on, that's a silly price, you can do better than that...

But if you're talking holding the cashier responsible for how much tesco charge, then YANBU and they're stupid

we have just got a new Poundland and a HOmeBargains in the next town and I love to go in, and say "ooooh that's a DISGRACE!!" when they say £13 please" as I disappear under the seventeen carrier bags packed to the gunnels with stuff my purchases.