Dear Editor:
I do not know how any dear reader feels, but I do feel like somebody taken for a fool.
If a recession is real and bad, it would be much easier to find a parking spot at some markets. They are full, these days.
Three years ago I did pay at the station I am buying gas from, $35 (including tax) for changing a pair of tires from one kind to another, putting them on the rims, balancing and reinstallation on the car.
I later bought two rims and put winter tires on them for $35 and have since changed wheels myself.
Today, I came to the same gas station with two winter tires installed on the rims and asked for the cost to just put them on my car. The cost: $30 plus tax.
For the work as done before, described above, now they ask $80 (before tax).
There is lack of honesty in the price increase. Magic word for the reason is: inflation! So they say. Just that. But no specific reason why! Maybe everybody asks same price.
Some trades can protest, even strike and ask for better wages. But seniors, whose pension-indexing is miles behind the cost of living increase, can just be glad they are alive.
Vladimir Cicha North Vancouver
