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Snack attack

Geoff Riley

22nd November 2008

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Street hawkers normally have an instinctive ability - honed through several generations - to spot well-heeled tourists a mile off and engage in a spot of first degree price discrimination and exploit informaton failure among confused jet-lagged travellers. Here is a neat short story of a Dutch couple who may just have bought the most expensive plate of four samosas in commercial history. Then again, perhaps they were just the first to complain to the local police.

The article is also memorable for alerting us to the availability of camel urine - a bargain at just over £1.34 per litre.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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