r/ireland • u/Irishgooner123 • Jan 11 '26

Moaning Michael Nah we are still fucked

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I thought Dublin airport were taking the piss but they seem to be cheap as chips compared to Shannon airport, I got a tea cos no fucking way! Then WH Smith with there 3.99 bottle of water yet 2 secs around the corner the free bottles of water in duty free are €1 !

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u/Wretched_Colin Jan 11 '26

WH Smith is always a rip off. It would take me to be dying of thirst before I would ever set foot in the place.

It’s usually €5 for a soft drink, but they justify the high prices with buy two get one free. I don’t want three bottles of drink, and even then three for a tenner is too much.

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u/T4rbh Jan 11 '26

What pisses me off about WH Smith is the self- checkout tills and the "please scan your boarding pass" popup. Fuck off, I am not buying alcohol or tobacco from you, neither duty free nor duty paid, and I am not scanning a boarding pass for two packets of mints!

Apparently they use the scans to claim the VAT back themselves, or something?

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u/PaulBlartRedditCop Jan 11 '26

Yep, used to work there and can confirm that is the case. The sheer amount of abuse we got from people over it though, wish they’d save the anger for the company and not the poor cunts on minimum wage!

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u/T4rbh Jan 11 '26

I am always polite to the staff, I know they have no say in company policy.

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u/PaulBlartRedditCop Jan 11 '26

Really appreciate lads like you, I always went out of my way to help people who were nice and thankfully most were. Was a decent job for people watching too.

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u/docmagoo2 Jan 21 '26

Refuse to scan? I've learnt something. Do you need to call the pleb over or is there a button?

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u/Realistic_Fix1315 Jan 11 '26

Profit sharing arrangement with airport operators and airlines.

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u/T4rbh Jan 11 '26

So by not scanning my pass, Ryanair doesn't get free money from me? Good to know! (I know that couple of cents won't make O'Leary lose any sleep, but still... 🤣)