Deposit return scheme (recycling)

This seems very strange because there were rules that were brought in which specifically didn't allow it happen like you claim. I was working with retail software at the time and I remember people making this claim and I was looking at the price files which proved they were not true. The rounding up or down was determined by the 3 digit after the decimal point. So I am calling your claims BS

more utter rubbish.

I was in retail then, Tills were programmed. There were no outcries - not even the sunday world could find issues - and that saying something.

It was unbelievably smooth for such a dramatic and seismic change and even then you had the snowflakes of the day saying "what about the elderly" not realising that they had done similar in the change to decimal from the old shillings and pence

The claim at the time of the Euro was that shops were using it to hide price increases. There was absolutely nothing about inaccurate change.

The reality of it is that there had been dual pricing for three full years so everyone could verify the Euro prices; and inflation figures did not change - there simply was no price gouging going on; but there was general inflation at the time - people ascribed that to the changeover, inaccurately.

Yeah, there were no doubt some isolated incidents, but by and large that transition went incredibly smoothly. There are some contemporaneous reports of some items being overcharged by a few cent, but actual investigations nearly always showed that price gouging wasn't the cause. It happened at a time of general inflation, so prices had been going up for months, but some people only tuned into it when the currency changed. Also pub-workers got a pay-rise on January 1st, and the pubs put up prices to account for that. There was certainly no wholesale scams to sell £1 products for €2. That's a clear exaggeration from that poster.

There's always going to be teething problems, but by and large, the Deposit Return Scheme will have become a normal facet of life by the summer. Of course, in 20 years time, there will be some future posters on whatever versions of Boards is on the Metaverse posting about how people lost their whole life savings to illegitimate deposits, and RVMs that attacked children.

Ah will you stop!

Pound shops never sold everything for £1. And "€2 shops" never sold everything for €2. They're descriptions, not contracts.

It's engrained in my memory from those fun times !

You do know that it is 24 years since the change and inflation will have made its mark on prices AND wages. Back in 2000 the minimum wage was €5.60, it is now €12.70.

There were no issues. Most discount shops went to €1.25 for items previously £1.

Pound city / apollo changed to Euro2 and had everything €2 or less with price points €1, 1.25, 1.50 1.75 & 2.00.

Even today many items are still €1.50, though I believe Dealz have moved to €1.75 for a lot of previously 1.50 items.

So like almost all of your post on the subject you are shown to be entirely wrong and mis-informed.

No, i specifically remember people being taken advantage of, not just the pound shop example, even local corner shops was notorious for it.

football preimer league football stickers was 30pence to 45 pence. on the week leading up they became 50 pence. As soon as euro came in the shop was charging €1 per pack, it was'nt until people stopped buying them, did the store reduce the price to 75 cent, and then 55 cent the true price they should have been all along after the change.

"Some businesses did take advantage of the currency exchange to raise prices"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_euro

deals is actually €2 at the moment or 2.50, not that it matters anyway. they started off claiming 1.49 when they first opened up in ireland. but they didnt open up around the time of the euro change. so idk why its even being mentioned here

Yes exactly! indeed! "Some businesses did take advantage of the currency exchange to raise prices."

i don't mean about duel pricing (which still exists in some places where it displays uk pound and euro price)

i'm speaking more in regards to some shops taking advantage of the euro changeover to mask/hide price increases.

not spoofing at all, and your examples are modern day uptodate prices, not those from when the changeover happened "Unfamiliarity can lead to situations where companies try to take advantage of the euro cash changeover by raising prices. We have had this debate in many countries, and it remains a challenge for public authorities and consumers to scrutinise price-setting behaviour closely and act against obvious attempts to take advantage of the situation" https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2007/html/sp071126.en.html

we have no price commissioners in ireland "In general, there are no price controls in Ireland. This means that, in most cases, there is no minimum or maximum price for goods or services. This is to allow for competition among businesses.

A shop is not breaking the law by charging more than their competitors. If you feel that you are not getting good value, then you should shop around for a better price."

https://www.ccpc.ie/consumers/shopping/pricing/

So, has anyone got to use an RVM yet?

Well that me done ever buying a bottle of anything again unless I really really am stuck for it.

Stupid return scheme. I can see a scanddl on this in a few years where the machines stop working or need to be replaced every 3 or 5 years or whatever and there is uproar by the shops as they have been told theses machines should last at least a decade.

Also you only getting 5 or 10 cent back at the most for each can or bottle because of the new 15 cent tax that is on them from today. Funny nothing about that in the news today.

If old bottles and cans could have been recycled too this woukd have been brilliant Bd elukd have been a great way to clean up our country but no it's only new ones so it's stupid.

What's this?

Day 1 and our machine isn't working. Lol.