Prices For Men, Prices For Women

[atalanta]

Today, in a certain well-known high street chemists, I was looking at deodorants. The men's and the women's ones ( same brand, same style ) were the same price, but men get 50ml whereas women get only 40ml.
Can anyone imagine how the aforementioned shop might account for this 25 percent price difference ?

[jim360]

No idea, but unjustifiable price differences like that really should be given the Boots.

[fiction-factory]

If they are the same, why don;t women buy the men's one?

[Prudie]

It's the same for razors

[atalanta]

Probably because the shelves for men's stuff are well away from the women's stuff, and not many women would expect such a shop to be so underhand that they must compare everything - just in case

[fiction-factory]

Also for Feminax and the equivalent.

[Buenchico]

It can work the other way round though. Asda, for example, tend to only put their 'Smart Price' roll-on deodorant (at around 30p) with the women's range, leaving those men who (unlike me) don't check both aisles, to pay at least a pound for the cheapest product in their part of the store.

[pastafreak]

Aren't prices set by the manufacturer?

[Buenchico]

>>> Aren't prices set by the manufacturer?

Manufacturers can recommend a price but they can't insist that such a price is charged. (Several perfume manufacturers, for example, have tried to prevent supermarkets from selling their normally expensive products at discount prices, as they see such practices as cheapening the image of their 'luxury' perfumes but the courts have ruled that supermarkets are free to charge what they like).

[gingejbee]

^^^no, the retailer decides what to charge.
They're different products....different fragrance, somewhat different formulae etc....and (the argument might go) women like a "dinkier" container.

[gingejbee]

...you could, of course, contact head office and ask them. I'm sure there's a whole raft of reasons they can come up with to justify the difference!

[B00]

Even the same product can be priced differently depending on which aisle you get 'em from.

cotton buds for example are usually cheaper if bought from the baby section than what they are in the beauty one- crazy innit?

[weecalf]

Sure , roll on Christmas and they will all be dearer .

[jno]

it was the same with razors and eye cream

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/02/boots-alters-prices-accusations-of-sexist-pricing

It seems they back down if you make enough noise.

[tonyav]

Man Tax !
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/life/cafe-charges-men-more-than-women-for-a-very-powerful-reason/ar-AApsn6K?li=AAnZ9Ug

[Old_Geezer]

I seem to recall that it was the same at discos. Men full price, women free. ( I bought 6.)

[tonyav]

Yeah I remember that ( the disco's ) OG.
Bloody hell, free entry and us buying the drinks !.

[gness]

Oh stop complaining, Tony.......you loved it!....;-)

If women were free and men full price I want to know why OG bought six men!!!!!....:-)

[Old_Geezer]

Should never buy anything full price ;-)

[tonyav]

Oh stop complaining, Tony.......you loved it!....;-)

Gawd, all those Brandy and Babychams ( and a goodnight peck on the cheek ), I was skint for the rest of the week !.

[Ken4155]

Slightly off topic but similar in a way; i'd like to know what ingredients are in Head & Shoulders For Men and the Head & Shoulders that has been around for yonks?