Inflated food and drink prices at Sheffield station compared to the same product available elsewhere including M&S, Starbucks and WHSmith
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00:00I guess I'm used to it, but not in a way that I'm happy with, so, yeah.
00:05What do you think the reason for it might be?
00:08Well, it's a monopoly on all of the prices, because if you want something at the train station,
00:14you can't really even go anywhere else quickly, so.
00:18And how do you feel about that?
00:20I mean, I'm not happy about it, but, like, it's just not good.
00:30What do you think the reason for it might be?
00:35I think the train station prices are quite high, and I feel like they do rip you off,
00:39because they know that they can put the prices up, and they know that they can make it more,
00:43because you've got to buy it.
00:44Because say you're in a rush or something like that, then you're going to want to go there,
00:48because there's nowhere else, really, to go.
00:50What should they do?
00:51I think they should lower the prices. I think it's quite ridiculous, really.
00:54There's a lot of students here, so I feel like to lower that for them,
00:57they already know how bad students are doing with their cost of living crisis as well.
01:01And I feel not just students, but other people, I think they need to lower it.
01:04It's bad, really.
01:05And how do you feel about it?
01:07Quite angry, really, because, you know, if there's not other shops open,
01:10and there's other places that are quite expensive, but less expensive,
01:14and then they're all shut, then you're going to have to go there and spend more money,
01:17and not everyone always has a bit more money.
01:28It's a bit of a joke, really, isn't it?
01:30I mean, I know I'm holding a sandwich from M&S now, but that's more for convenience than anything.
01:35And I think they're cashing in on people like me going for convenience,
01:42rather than having a little bit more time to nip somewhere else.
01:45So, I mean, that was the same price as what a meal deal is in Tesco,
01:50in a Tesco supermarket or whatever.
01:52So, yeah, it's a bit of a joke.
01:54It's a bit of a joke, and it's not particularly with what's going off at the minute
01:58and the cost of everything going up.
02:01I imagine, you know, a lot of people won't generally have that luxury that I've got,
02:06where they can just stop somewhere for convenience and, yeah, basically.
02:13We have quite a lot of overseas students as well,
02:16who probably don't really know any different, you know what I mean?
02:19And I think it will certainly make it out of them a little bit.
02:23So, yeah, it's not right, is it?