But what’s just as interesting is the prices these cleaners come in at. Most of them cost between £150 and £200. Anything badged Dyson sells for more than £200 and often more than £300. Of the 83 they test, there are a dozen or so that sell for under £100.
What they don’t test is the one I saw (and bought) in Tesco the other day (pictured here). The Tesco VC406 costs just £30. In the interests of research (honest) I have just had a go with it. Not the smoothest suck you will ever come across but, at £30, who’s counting. How do they do that?
by putting the price of food up
ReplyDeleteanyone else notice how tescos has gone really expensive now
It is not just Tesco that has seen an increase in food prices, all food retailers have. Why is the British mentality to have a go at whoever is on top? Get real
ReplyDelete£30 for a vacuum cleaner?
ReplyDeleteIt would almost certainly been made in Indian (slave labour), parts from Taiwan, then how does it get the CE mark??
At this price, even if it lasts for a 6 Months you would still be happy.
Supermarkets tell the suppliers how much they want to buy it for nowadays as they have so much market share/power (milk is the perfect example recently, ask the farmers).
re Tesco's on top
ReplyDeletepretty well known now that you have 3 tiers of supermarket shopping
Asda/Morrisons = cheapest
Tesco/sainsburys = middle band (yes sainsburys is as cheap as Tesco's)
Marks/waitrose = expensive
yes all food retailers have increased prices....Tesco's more than others
Almost certainly made in China. And when it breaks (soon), you'll find that there will be no stockholding of spares available. Will you recycle the materials it's made from? And what about the embedded energy of manufacture?
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