of Sausage rolls and smartphones
“I don’t get it.”, is what I said to the girl who was attending to me at a phone shop a week ago. “If you think about it”, said I, “why should a smartphone that is half the size of a tablet be priced closed to or more than a tablet?” “Some smartphones are about a third the size of a tablet, so shouldn’t it be priced at a third of the price of a tablet, or a quarter?” She looked at me surprised, and it was clear that it had never occurred to her. To an English acquaintance of mine I said the same thing, whilst another Sikh acquaintance of mine stood by and listened. The English guy says, “well, it is smaller, so it is convenient to carry around compared to a tablet.” “So”, I said, “at Greggs (a pastry shop), they sell a long sausage roll for 90 pence. If they halved it, would it be justified that they doubled the price because we can put the whole thing in our mouths at one go?” He looked at me, smiled, and didn’t know what to say, whilst the Sikh guy laughed. Same thing happened