[Closed] 'Price fixing' by the Bike Cos?

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The bike shop as we know it isn't going to die a death any time soon. Some will but bike shops will still exist for the less experienced, the new cyclist and those with money and a passion for cycling but no interest in fixing the thing. The bike shop I used to work in pumped out mainly £300 hybrids, and worked mainly on student bikes worth buttons. But we also got a lot of very expensive road, and especially triathlon, bikes to fix for people who rode them but didn't know, or care, how to fix them. Because that's what the bike shop is for, in the same way you drop your car in a garage.

People fixing their own bikes and buying very expensive mountain bikes are like people fixing their own cars and buying Lamborghinis- it does happen, but it's certainly not the majority.

local butchers round here dont seem to be able to keep up - they do good meat at very competitive prices.

i got sick of the grey sick looking tasteless meat you get in the asdas and tescos etc

Aldi and lidl meat tastes slightly better and looks a damn sight better but i still take time out to go to the butchers as much as possible im afraid its far from a slightly lower quality of meat - my dad was a butcher so i was brought up on good meat i know what it tastes like - unfortunatnly people have been fed on the supermarket tripe for so long they have forgotten what good meat tastes like.

like wise with my fish.

equally i do believe shit shops deserve to die - be they fish/butchers/candlestick makers or bike shops....

stepping up from behind the parapet here, I'm not sure I agree that retail price maintenance is such a bad thing, certainly not bad enough to be made illegal. Unless I'm missing something, it just seems to allow for a race to the bottom, meaning that those who can shift large volumes at tiny margins win, meaning there is no room for any sort of 'value add' (urgh, hate that term) for small retailers, as they have to price match or lose the business of folk like konabunny, who don't care about the people who make/sell the product, as long as it's as cheap as possible.

I think it's necessary (perhaps the wrong word, but at least required) to keep the industry going.

Flame away

Wiggle's reported margin last year was 4%, and its carrying a high debt load

Chain reactions reported margin last year was slightly higher (I've hard 5-6%) but the company was relatively debt free

makes you wonder why they bother...

Wiggle's reported margin last year was 4%, and its carrying a high debt load

Chain reactions reported margin last year was slightly higher (I've hard 5-6%) but the company was relatively debt free

makes you wonder why they bother...

BAE's margin on an Astute class submarine was (in percentage terms) MUCH less.