Things that are inexplicably cheap

[ChewChewIsMySpiritAnimal]

Inspired by the thread about things that are inexplicably expensive!

My pick is bananas. You can buy a huge bunch of bananas for a few pence - I'm always shocked when i get to the till and find I've got about 22 bananas for less than a quid exaggerating but they've been imported from halfway round the world - yet the British apples next to them are twice as much.

What do you find inexplicably cheap?

Was also going to say chicken drumsticks.
Small electricals - I realise this is because they are probably being churched out in sweatshops, but it blows my mind when I have been into Primark or Poundland and you can buy a (very basic) shower speaker for £3 or a pair of headphones for £1.50

Property in London and the South East😂😂

A couple of years ago you could buy a t-shirt for the same price as a coffee!

Novels.

They can take years, not to mention an immense amount of talent to craft, yet they're often sold for pence.

I saw a novel called Broken Biscuits for sale recently. It's meant to be very good. The same day I saw actual boxes of broken biscuits on the shelves priced higher than the book.

Wages. Some are the same as 10 years ago.

It's not inexplicable at all - it just means supermarkets are paying rock bottom prices so farmers are getting pennies for it.

Exactly. I earned nearly as much in 1991 😊

Some of that could reflect automation. I think berries are usually more expensive because they are so fragile that a lot of the work has to be done by hand. The more you can automate production, the cheaper a product will be

Tap water, £1.90 ish for 1 cubic metre, that’s 1000 litres.

For the amount of work it takes to get that water to your tap and be safe to drink, that is the ultimate bargain I think.

I clicked on this thread to say bananas too LOL. Can never believe how cheap they are.

Most food, except fish and seafood.
Electronics.
Lots of clothes.

Chicken (actually, all meat) is incredibly cheap in the UK.

Chicken thigh fillets, massively cheaper than breast and much tastier IMO.

Milk, even organic is really cheap

Kids sweeties (laces, lances, Cole bottles etc) they were 3 for £1 when I was growing up and they still seem to be now not that I can eat them anymore

Pineapples, how can they be £1 each? They used to be such a fancy pants thing and they're just a big standard fruit now

And school uniform! £5 for trousers, £4 for poloshirts. incredible

Oil recently. 23p a litre a few weeks ago.

Paracetamol

Garlic cloves

Someone mentioned petrol at £1.20 a liter. Until last week, ours was 69 cents a gallon. That’s less than 15 pence per liter.

Vienetta. I remember it being the ultimate dessert. We even had it for our Christmas day dessert. Now it's a pound in Iceland!

Tellies

@ChewChewIsMySpiritAnimal we bought two bananas in a Spain a couple of years ago and were shocked at how expensive they were, over €2 if IRC!

These things are not inexplicably cheap. As WitchWindows and PPS have said so much cheap stuff mentioned here is based on not paying the true cost eg pollution, no controls on chemicals, waste going to landfill, non-biodegradable items made to be thrown away after a short lifespan, slave/too cheap labour, air freight pollution, battery caged chickens, factory caged cows, destruction of millions of acres of habitats for mining or for non-organic soya beans, palm oil etc which will be farmed with myriad chemicals.

Lower wage or land costs in other countries accounts for some differences in price but the failure to pay the true costs accounts for most of it.

Its awful :(

Chicken wings! You can get about 8 million for a quid...

And beef short rib - about a quarter of the cost of steak and 10x tastier!

Eggs! They are about 12p each. Total bargain

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