Today I visited Uckfield in East Sussex and popped into a charity shop to see if I could find any second hand bargains. At the back of the shop was an excellent telescope without a price tag so I enquired and was told it had not been priced up yet. I asked if it could be priced up and was told I would have to wait or come back another day as they were pricing up other goods. When I explained I was just in the town for a short visit and I lived quite a distance away so revisiting the shop wasn't easy for me.
The curious thing was that they seemed really reluctant to sell it at all. It was as if they would rather let a customer down rather than sell an item to somebody who was willing to pay some serious money for it. So both of us lost out - they missed an immediate sale and I didn't purchase a rather excellent telescope.
A little later my wife and I popped into a small pet shop to see if they had any pet rabbits and when I enquired the owner told me that selling baby rabbits was morally wrong when so many are abandoned and need re-homing. I kind of got it in the ear for my apparent moral deficiency in wondering if there were any baby rabbits for sale. So much for making the customer feel welcome. The irony was that the shopkeeper seemed opposed to selling rabbits but was very happy to run a business supporting these critters with pet food and hutches. Seemed rather hypocritical to me.
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