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user104658 27-09-2015 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by GiRTh (Post 8182936)
The reason why it cost £3.20 for a bowl of ceral is cuz many of their cereals are imported. They are a business so they need to make money so £3.20 is a price by which they are making money. I think far too many people focuis on the price like its the biggest issue. Go to any store that stocks rare or imported items and you will find youself paying muich more than usual.

I also dont see why this shop is a target. Are all small business in this area treated like this?

Exactly, stores with imported snacks from the US have some crazy prices - cans of soft drinks that you can't get in the UK for £2.50 - £3 a can, etc... it's pretty standard.

When I was in Portugal last year, the convenience store had cans of Irn Bru for 3 euros each. And they were in the Alcohol section :nono: :hehe:

Shaun 27-09-2015 07:11 PM

If you go to a cafe to have a bowl of cereal you probably need help crossing the road.

user104658 27-09-2015 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Shaun (Post 8183140)
If you go to a cafe to have a bowl of cereal you probably need help crossing the road.

I'm assuming they also sell coffee and stuff? If so I'd probably go! It's a bit of a novelty I guess. Sometimes I don't fancy much for breakfast but I always (...always...) need more coffee, and a bowl of Lucky Charms might go down a treat.

MTVN 27-09-2015 07:20 PM

Agree that its a very strange target. Two blokes running their own small cafe is not exactly the epitome of capitalist oppression

user104658 27-09-2015 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 8183192)
Agree that its a very strange target. Two blokes running their own small cafe is not exactly the epitome of capitalist oppression

Perhaps it was just an excuse, and they were in fact the victim of a hate crime committed by pognophobes.

GiRTh 27-09-2015 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier (Post 8183131)
Exactly, stores with imported snacks from the US have some crazy prices - cans of soft drinks that you can't get in the UK for £2.50 - £3 a can, etc... it's pretty standard.

When I was in Portugal last year, the convenience store had cans of Irn Bru for 3 euros each. And they were in the Alcohol section :nono: :hehe:

I once paid nine pounds for a English Breakfast at a Hotel next to Glasgow airport. I think it was a Holiday Inn, not sure but it was definitely a franchise Hotels.. Thats much more of a rip off than his shop yet I doubt anyone will be attacking that Hotel.

Liam- 27-09-2015 07:50 PM

They're mad at the idea of gentrification so they target a couple of hipsters selling cereal?

T* 27-09-2015 07:55 PM

what silly *****

arista 27-09-2015 07:56 PM

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...46_964x461.jpg

Ithinkiloveyoutoo 27-09-2015 07:58 PM

"anti-gentrification protesters" nah thugs.

Edit: Privileged thugs.

Kizzy 27-09-2015 08:00 PM

Nobody targeting the large coffee chains for charging £4 for coffee it would cost pennies to make at home. Ridic.

DemolitionRed 27-09-2015 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier (Post 8182704)
They look like the type who are lucky charms, the culprits will probably end up getting shreddied and these two will come out of the whole thing golden grahams.

:joker:

Cherie 27-09-2015 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed (Post 8182413)
I popped in but received a frosty reception!

:laugh: there greatttt

user104658 27-09-2015 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 8183378)
Nobody targeting the large coffee chains for charging £4 for coffee it would cost pennies to make at home. Ridic.

True, if you have your own grinder and coffee machine you can actually buy Starbucks beans, at Starbucks, that will make 50+ large coffees and the bag costs the same as two coffees from Starbucks... Makes it seem a bit crazy. (Also my coffee is loads better than their extra special "baristas" make. Naturally.) But I suppose you're paying for convenience, that's sorry of the point, and again, isn't that the crux of capitalism? If people weren't willing to pay £3 for a bowl of cereal then they wouldn't be in business... But they are :shrug:.

Crimson Dynamo 28-09-2015 11:26 AM

Shoreditch Cereal Killer Cafe targeted in anti-gentrification protests
 

Hundreds of protesters attacked a cereal cafe in east London on Saturday night, daubing the word “scum” on the shop window and setting fire to an effigy of a police officer.

Riot police were called in to defend the Cereal Killer Cafe in Shoreditch after it was targeted by a large crowd of anti-gentrification activists carrying pigs’ heads and torches.

The owners of the cafe, which has been seen by some as a symbol of inequality in east London, said on Sunday that the attack left customers including children “terrified for their lives”.


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CP3LVLIWsAAJF4n.jpghttp://media.timeout.com/blogimages/...03-528x350.jpg


http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...ion-protesters


A fair or an easy target?

Niamh. 28-09-2015 11:30 AM

I don't get why they were targeted?

Ammi 28-09-2015 11:35 AM

..no I don't get why specifically them either, maybe because they're fairly new in opening and they got national media coverage as it's a gimmicky/different type eating place...

Ammi 28-09-2015 11:36 AM

..oh this is a different thread to the one Arista posted yesterday..?..

kirklancaster 28-09-2015 11:38 AM

One of the idiots heard another of the idiots say: "I'm starving, I could murder a bowl of cornflakes" and another sensless riot was born.

Crimson Dynamo 28-09-2015 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 8184289)
I don't get why they were targeted?


Children are starving in the east end and they are charging 4.50 for a bowl of cereal

Crimson Dynamo 28-09-2015 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Ammi (Post 8184302)
..oh this is a different thread to the one Arista posted yesterday..?..

Yes his one was about Killer Cereal shop but my one is about Cereal Killers shop



Seriously Ammi, are you paying attention here or what?

:idc:

Ammi 28-09-2015 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 8184364)
Yes his one was about Killer Cereal shop but my one is about Cereal Killers shop



Seriously Ammi, are you paying attention here or what?

:idc:

..no, I lost my concentration for a moment there LT../apologies..I see this has a whole new angle that Arista didn't cover...sign of the times I'm afraid...

arista 28-09-2015 12:11 PM

http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru...d.php?t=289448

Can a Good mod merge LT's to mine

arista 28-09-2015 12:15 PM

Yes Near there was a Coffee place
not touched

Crimson Dynamo 28-09-2015 12:16 PM

isnt this thread the same as my new, brighter one?

:suspect:


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