Behind the gloss

WHILE buying magazines to read on the Cork-to-Dublin the train recently, luckily I noticed the price of one before purchasing — €9.

How is that possible? Inflation has gone mad here. The magazine was American, and so the dollar/euro exchange and other cost factors are to be expected, but charging €9 has to be greed pure and simple.

When I lived in Germany, imported magazines were a little bit more expensive than the German ones, but not much.