Maplins?

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Why does this shop still exist?

Wanted to buy a Display port to HDMI adaptor, tried a few places, Wilko B&M and various pound type shops, all had HDMI cables for £1 but no display port type.

Popped into Maplins and they had an adapter for £24.99 and a £14.99 HDMI adapter was told if I bought both it would be £30 some promotion like the second item half price.

Got it off Amazon for £3.99 wont have it today but come on, what a rip off place.

Pointless thread, would love if Amazon opened a shop can just walk in and collect your items.

 

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Maplin Maplins, Tesco, Tescos

Places like Gearbest Bang good are hurting us, people hoping goods pass through customs and not pay tax.

Maplin is a massive rip off. Amazon offer same day delivery on a lot of items, they would only have to stock most used items bet they would massively undercut Maplin by a huge amount.

Look buy this HDMI cable for 14.99 bargain.

I love that people seem to think Amazon could just open high street shops, stock probably well in excess of the 261 million products they were selling in the UK in 2015, pay uk tax, staff wages, shop costs etc and still sell stuff at anything like the cost that they do as a tax dodging international company with increasingly automated warehouses......