John Phillips wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Sir John Howard
> <sirjhoward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > 'er indoors went shopping yesterday and came home with an item from
> > Supre. The top she bought cost $5 and they gave her a free "green" bag
> > to go with it rather than a plastic bag (no matter that she had
> > another bag she could easily have put the item into). The bags are
> > pinkish with "Supre" written on them so they obviously use them for
> > promotional advertising. 'er indoors has 3 of those bags now.
>
> Supre normally have about 300 - 400 % markup on new goods - not those
> reduced of course.
I know. Even at $5 they're bound to make at least $2 out of it, if not
more.
> Those bags they give away "free" cost about 65 cents landed from China,
> maybe a little less in huge quantities.
>
> Same for "green" bags from supermarkets.
I figure they'd had to have been cheaper in order to just give them
away. So my estimate of below 50c is incorrect. The Supre bags are
smaller than the "green bags" Woolies sell.
