What can you get for £2 these days?

[accountantpete]

Well... Comet stores apparently!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/nov/09/comet-sold-for-2-pounds-kesa?newsfeed=true

 

[Paulus]

Sold to "turnaround specialists" Do they mean asset strippers by chance? Remember that Rover cars was sold for a song, £10 if my memory serves me right.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

....Greece?

 

[BSRU]

....Greece?

What only one?

 

[trustysteed]

a euromillions ticket!

 

[Toshiba Boy]

What only one?

Oh, OK, throw Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland in too, as a job lot.

 

[Cheddar George]

Only £ 2.00 !!!! ......... but how much was the extended warranty ?

 

[the snail]

The former owners are keeping the company's debts and pension deficit, so they're effectively paying £100 million or something to get rid of it... ouch!

 

[rich p]

Last time I was in Comet the shop asistant told me that the Samsung fridge was more expensive than the Zanussi one because it's a more well-known white goods brand.

 

[Fnaar]

I can get several items in the local £1 shop... er... I'm not good at sums.

 

[subaqua]

currys it is for the next fridge then

 

[NormanD]

I can get several items in the local £1 shop... er... I'm not good at sums.

You can when the half price sales are on

 

[DiddlyDodds]

I bought a £4 hat with 75% off , so you can get twice as much for half the price of your £2, and so still had change to buy another if i had two heads

 

[kettle]

2 £1 coins

 

[ASC1951]

Sold to "turnaround specialists" Do they mean asset strippers by chance? Remember that Rover cars was sold for a song, £10 if my memory serves me right.

No, they don't - there are no assets to strip.

Rover was very different. The taxpayer was ripped off because politicians interfered - a substantial offer from Jon Moulton's Alechemy Group was turned down on the ground that it only guaranteed most of the jobs (in a marginal Labour constituency); and guess what, HMG's preferred bidder resulted in all the jobs being lost along with the factory.