Madam, – I believe the Irish consumer, having been ripped off in vast and catastrophic way by our financial industry, no longer even notices the small but insidious little rip-offs that we are still subjected to. I noticed an example of this in Spain recently. In a chemist shop there was a weighing machine identical to the one in my local southside chemist: same make, same model. The cost of simply weighing oneself was €1 in Dublin, 20 cent in Spain! What is the justification for charging five times as much for the same function, which probably costs almost nothing anyway? – Yours, etc,