Can BP charge what it wants for tobacco?
Discussion
I don't smoke - I used to... loved it actually. 
Yesterday I nipped into a BP garage to buy 20 Marlboro for a friend - I paid £18.70 and thought 'smoking has become even more expensive'.
20 smokes is expensive - but not nearly £19..... I'd like to say I'm fuming.
Is this normal? Do garages routinely mark up this much?
Yesterday I nipped into a BP garage to buy 20 Marlboro for a friend - I paid £18.70 and thought 'smoking has become even more expensive'.
20 smokes is expensive - but not nearly £19..... I'd like to say I'm fuming.
Is this normal? Do garages routinely mark up this much?
NDA said:
I don't smoke - I used to... loved it actually.
Yesterday I nipped into a BP garage to buy 20 Marlboro for a friend - I paid £18.70 and thought 'smoking has become even more expensive'.
20 smokes is expensive - but not nearly £19..... I'd like to say I'm fuming.
Is this normal? Do garages routinely mark up this much?
Try buying engine oil from them, quite often double the price compared to what you can get with a 2 minute google.Yesterday I nipped into a BP garage to buy 20 Marlboro for a friend - I paid £18.70 and thought 'smoking has become even more expensive'.
20 smokes is expensive - but not nearly £19..... I'd like to say I'm fuming.
Is this normal? Do garages routinely mark up this much?
NDA said:
I don't smoke - I used to... loved it actually.
Yesterday I nipped into a BP garage to buy 20 Marlboro for a friend - I paid £18.70 and thought 'smoking has become even more expensive'.
20 smokes is expensive - but not nearly £19..... I'd like to say I'm fuming.
Is this normal? Do garages routinely mark up this much?
Advise your friend to stop smoking.Yesterday I nipped into a BP garage to buy 20 Marlboro for a friend - I paid £18.70 and thought 'smoking has become even more expensive'.
20 smokes is expensive - but not nearly £19..... I'd like to say I'm fuming.
Is this normal? Do garages routinely mark up this much?
Do not buy them cigarettes.
Car bon said:
Apparently their cans of coke are more expensive than Tesco as well - outrageous.
Call the Daily Mail & get your best compo fan on
Call the Daily Mail & get your best compo fan on
It was a genuine question from me - I'd assumed that some items, like Marlboro cigarettes, were the same price wherever you bought them. Pretty sure that was the case when I smoked. A 30% markup seems a lot.
normalbloke said:
Suck it up buttercup.
Shocking, isn't it every time when buying fags for friends. 40 Marlboro Reds wrapped in pretty paper and stick - on bow would make a suitably expensive Christmas present. Maybe glue a picture of a cowboy riding a splendid horse with Monument Valley in the background instead of a diseased, blackened lung. Highest I've paid is twenty quid for twenty in Newcastle city centre after hours a couple of years ago when my friend was desperate.
Snow and Rocks said:
They don't - I don't smoke but they're more generally around 10 quid a packet. Still outrageous but makes the numbers at least a bit more sensible.
That's why I used to roll my own when I smoked years ago. Plus I preferred the taste. Never put filters in as it was a faff. Still a waste of money and stupid but hey. I now vape but not the 'kin stupid bubblegum, strawberry, vanilla flavour s
t. I actually vape tobacco flavour, and not the huge great clouds like you see enveloping some tts! 
malrlboro reds are £15 a packet but always £18-19 at BP for some reason!
if you smoke them then it's worth going for a cheap weekend away somewhere on ryanair and bringing back several thousand from duty free. (obviously at your own risk but it's very common that people are doing this now due to the prices and very very rare to get stopped at the airport)
if you smoke them then it's worth going for a cheap weekend away somewhere on ryanair and bringing back several thousand from duty free. (obviously at your own risk but it's very common that people are doing this now due to the prices and very very rare to get stopped at the airport)
NDA said:
It was a genuine question from me - I'd assumed that some items, like Marlboro cigarettes, were the same price wherever you bought them. Pretty sure that was the case when I smoked. A 30% markup seems a lot.
Short Grain said:
Snow and Rocks said:
They don't - I don't smoke but they're more generally around 10 quid a packet. Still outrageous but makes the numbers at least a bit more sensible.
That's why I used to roll my own when I smoked years ago. Plus I preferred the taste. Never put filters in as it was a faff. Still a waste of money and stupid but hey. I now vape but not the 'kin stupid bubblegum, strawberry, vanilla flavour st. I actually vape tobacco flavour, and not the huge great clouds like you see enveloping some tts! jonathan_roberts said:
Short Grain said:
Snow and Rocks said:
They don't - I don't smoke but they're more generally around 10 quid a packet. Still outrageous but makes the numbers at least a bit more sensible.
That's why I used to roll my own when I smoked years ago. Plus I preferred the taste. Never put filters in as it was a faff. Still a waste of money and stupid but hey. I now vape but not the 'kin stupid bubblegum, strawberry, vanilla flavour st. I actually vape tobacco flavour, and not the huge great clouds like you see enveloping some tts! 
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