Dotty G

I couldn't help but feel as if perhaps some local convenience stores are exploiting this Cost of Living crisis by charging over the odds for basic products, which not even the big supermarkets would dream of charging their customers.

An example of this was when I nipped into my local Premier shop, to buy 1 litre of oil, only to find that they were charging £3.85 for it!

Fortunately, I didn't need it desperately, so I didn't buy it in the end, but, I felt a great deal of sadness for those, who perhaps were desperate for this product, and would have paid anything for it because of this, especially because it was about 8 o' clock at night, and it was the only nearby shop that was open.

Since I didn't need the oil desperately, I thought I'd wait until the next morning when I knew that the bigger supermarkets would be open, and buy it then, because I knew that it would at least be half the price.

However, I strongly believe that the cost of the oil in my local Premier shop, was just a small example which proved that there is definitely a thin line between small, local convenience stores wanting to make profit, be greedy and exploit the current Cost of Living crisis, which is, in my view, a little immoral.