June Houghton, 83, from Rhyl in north Wales, pointed to a necklace in the window of an Oxfam shop in the town of Beaconsfield, southeast England.
“That’s ?150!” she said in disbelief. “I don’t care if it’s real gold, you don’t sell that in a charity shop for ?150 ($250)! This may be a very affluent area, but there are pensioners and young people here too. I’m against charity shops now. I don’t shop in them any more.”
Her husband, Roy Turner, 86, agreed. “The prices here are double to three times those of any charity shop in north Wales.”
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