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Mon 02 Feb 2010Prices still cheaper in North but difference is narrowing
NORTHERN SHOPPING: VAT changes and a depreciating euro have not yet swung the balance back in favour of shopping in the South
OVER THE last five years many of the retailers who do business on both sides of the Border have tied themselves in increasingly ridiculous knots trying to come up with excuses to justify to increasingly angry consumers the wildly different prices in the two jurisdictions.
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