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Shop at the 99 cents only store and the quantity and quality of the merchandize drops as inflation continues. Example: Hotdogs were 16 oz now 12 oz is getting rare and 10 oz and 8 oz are more common.
If the store wide price was pegged to the postage stamp, the inflation thing would drop out mostly
and they could be a rock for their customers both the retail and the suppliers with an unexpected surplus and the need of a place to dump it.
46 cents times 2 = 92 cents now, but in the future ?
The forever stamps could be accepted as a inflation fighting currency. I would take my salary in forever stamps if I could spend it easily. Well maybe. They are sticky.
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//Hotdogs were a pound now 12 oz is getting rare
and 10 and 8 are more common.// |
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Wait - 1lb hotdogs?? What the (if I may quote my
great step-aunt Malvasia) fuck? |
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Actually, they're pretty common here in the States.
They make appropriately sized buns as well, but I
usually prefer to just butterfly cut an entire baguette
and top the whole thing with about a quart of ketchup
and mustard, and maybe a few cups of sauerkraut. |
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That reminds me, I need to go belt shopping again… |
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or permanent transit tickets if there is such a thing somewhere. |
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Permanent Transit Ticket Value Store? PTTVS |
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Two First Class Stamps Value Store? TFCVS |
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Need a better name to explain that prices change but values are steadier. Or something like Google or Amazon - silly and short. |
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What I don't like about using a transit ticket as a standard is that they a have, at least round here, five different prices: one way vs return trip also, monthly pass, old age discount, school discount, handicap discount. I'd end up with a store with 5 prices. |
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Some of the shopper at the 99 store come in vans and hold hands to stay together as they are herded down the aisles by their keepers. Just one price is what makes it possible for them to shop at all. |
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Post the prices not in todays currency, but in
currency from a particular year in history (for
example, "1980 dollars"), with a conversion to
modern prices done at checkout. |
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Just make sure that your store displays that info
*very* prominently, or else your customers will be
extremely upset, when something marked 1.00
actually costs them $2.90 |
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Also, this *only* adjusts for inflation. |
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Remember... the *relative* prices of different
commodities are not constant, even with inflation
ignored. Think of how milk prices have gone up
and down relative to the prices of other foods. |
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So even if you built such a place, you wouldn't be
able to keep all of the prices constant -- some
would go up over time, and some would go down
over time. |
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Of course, that's (probably) still better than a store
where all the prices rise over time, some just are
faster or slower than others. |
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I would bun the idea, but I don't own any stamps. |
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The hot dog thing was not clearly stated. Packages
containing several of them are sold. The package
most often used to contain 8 hot dogs and weigh 1
pound (16 ounces). Now many still contain 8, but
they are skinnier hot dogs, and the package only
weighs 12 ounces instead. |
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Given the way UK postal inflation is running,
by 2015 "Two First Class Stamps" will be
equivalent to a new Rolex, a second-hand Porsche,
or Greece*. |
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We were hoping that this was a shop where
the only thing on sale were lots of two first
class stamps, without having to queue behind
an elderly, rather senile, bad tempered, short-sighted and nearly deaf lady wanting to
send a stuffed Rhea second-class recorded
surface mail to her grandson aboard a British
Antarctic Survey vessel in the Weddel Sea,
Post Restante, Grytviken, South Georgia (An
even more godawful place than Georgia U.S.,
if such a thing were possible). |
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And yes, [MB], we do now bitterly regret our offer to carry your great step-aunt Malvasia's parcel down to the Post Office for her. |
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*It is to be hoped that Greece will have recovered sufficiently by then, as it is currently valued at one second class stamp. |
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ahh, you forgot to mention the lady is paying by plastic and the machine in playing up. |
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Ahh the post office, bought some traveller's cheques, then went back to the same post office to cash them, and they weren't able to do that, as they hadn't had the training. |
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I'm not an expert, but I understand that the oldest
profession keeps apace nicely with inflation and disposable
income rates. Therefore, for larger purchases you could
peg the price at the cost of two First Class Tramps. |
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^ I'd (continue to) giggle hysterically, but a bit of thought and women at one time (like now f'rinstance in some places) were traded for livestock, as were slaves. |
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First time I saw this, I though Ian Tinsdale..but obviously not. |
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Two forever stamps now = 98 cents |
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//elderly, rather senile, bad tempered, short-sighted and nearly deaf lady wanting to send a stuffed Rhea second-class recorded surface mail to her grandson aboard a British Antarctic Survey vessel in the Weddel Sea, Post Restante, |
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You forgot to mention.....she is paying by debit card, the Visa debit machine can't quite read the chip, and she's not absolutely sure of the PIN number anyway.. |
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//And yes, [MB], we do now bitterly regret our offer
to carry your great step-aunt Malvasia's parcel down
to the Post Office for her. // |
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Oh gods. She wasn't trying to post the dalmatian
again, was she? It was bad enough when she kept
sending staff to Africa by recorded delivery, but at
least they humoured her. The poor dog just doesn't
understand, and hates brown paper. |
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