'They want everything for 50p'
Car boot sellers have said “times are tough” for traders, with customers demanding deals as low as 50p on all their items and more and more visiting wholesalers.
The East End Park couple, in their 60s with two grown-up children, said that car boots have recently upped plot prices but with fuel prices going up, it’s not cost effective.Bryan said: “Times are tough, no one’s spending. You’d think when there’s no money about that they’d come to car boots sales but it works the other way.
“Everything they want for 50p – it isn’t a ‘50p market’ anymore. We can’t even buy stuff for 50p or to sell at 50p. We notice it more than anybody.” Bryan is semi-retired and works as a Tesco delivery driver. Elaine worked as a dinner lady before she retired, at Richmond Hill Academy, in East End Park, and then at Victoria Primary Academy in Osmondthorpe.
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