After Argos---

On 4/11/04 9:45 pm, in article
[email hidden], "Nigel Whittington"

Quoted message said:

How do they do that
And Aldi have GPS/Palmtops in next week too

Volume purchases and small margins.

--
Andy Howell
Birmingham, UK

Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the
wonderful person Nigel Whittington <[email hidden]> said

Quoted message said:

Local Netto has pairs of walking poles, says on the box, Anti-Shock
£8.99 a pair.
How do they do that

They probably make them out of some cheap and nasty alloy using slave
labour in China or Burma or somewhere, and sell them at cost+50%. Come
on, how much do you figure it costs to make a pair of walking poles? You
can get an Aluminium PC case, complete with 400w PSU, for what 'brand
name' walking poles (per pair) cost, and the case has to involve lots
more raw materials, labour, and energy.

You =know= putting 'Brasher' (or whoever) on the handle is an immediate
3-5x price markup.

Quoted message said:

And Aldi have GPS/Palmtops in next week too

Details?

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Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing.

Andy Howell <andy.howellNOSPAM@ecotrendDOTorgDOTuk.?> wrote

Quoted message said:

On 4/11/04 9:45 pm, in article
[email hidden], "Nigel Whittington"

Quoted message said:

How do they do that
And Aldi have GPS/Palmtops in next week too

Volume purchases and small margins.

Vorsprungtechnik.
--
Gordon

On 4 Nov 2004 13:45:40 -0800, [email hidden] (Nigel
Whittington) wrote:

| Local Netto has pairs of walking poles, says on the box, Anti-Shock
| £8.99 a pair.
| How do they do that
| And Aldi have GPS/Palmtops in next week too.

Aldi is similar to Lidl so if you want one be first in the queue on the day
they are sold.

Interesting I will wait till they come to Lidl.

--
Dave F