G'morning Herman,

 HT> That's a huge difference!  When I was in and near London
 HT> last year, we noticed that most things like that were
 HT> roughly double what we pay here in the US.

 HT> I have a co-worker who's a Brit, and he blames it on the exchange rate!
 HT>  I blame it on the "value-added" taxes.  We have some
 HT> interesting discussions.

It's retailer nature, I suspect;   travel into the NZ back-blocks 
to attend an agricultural show to find optimists armed with a 
serving hatch hacked into the side of a grubby caravan robbing the 
out-of-towners for a small Coke at 2 or 3 times the city retail 
price....

Then nip off to the nearest townlet (Waikickamoocow or some such) 
to find an incence-laden grocery run by immigrant Indians to get a 
2 litre bottle for $2....

I suspect the same goes on the world over.

Miles.
 
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