Ahhh nice one. However the tags for this post made me spit water all over my keyboard... "busty" "charge extra" "women" ... ohh dear RwD
This is fantastic news, it's always been unfair to charge us, erm... top-heavy ladies more. There's no way the extra fabric costs £2 per bra. Bad enough having to pay more for shoes as I'm a size 8 & the price goes up above size 7
I think they should be charged a lot more for their bra's, might encourage them not to wear any then.
you have no evidence to suggest it doesnt, larger sizes require specialist production runs with more material. Ever seen the cost/function breakdown of a product?
Pfft, I wish it was only $3 more per bra. When you don't fit into the sizes they carry in regular stores (usually up to DD), it's off to the specialty lingerie shop. Nearly feels as though you have to mortgage the house to buy a few decent ones.
Surely they'll just bump up the price of the smaller bras to keep things even? It might not be that obvious at first but I doubt there's a free lunch here.
Well that's nice. Retailers here don't do that for the most part. Last time I paid less than $20 for a bra was probably when I was 16 or 17.
Do we pay different prices for different sizes of other clothes? Shirts, trousers, suits, skirts, shoes? Of course not. Because the smart producer knows to set a price smack in the middle (which is also the size that sells most, incidentally). The relatively smaller profit made on the large sizes is cancelled out by the relatively bigger profits made on the smaller sizes.
I'm a size 12 I have a hard enough time finding shoes I LIKE in my size before I worry about the cost (although granted, I am a fella ... altho my gf is a size 8 shoe as well, so I hear your pain) Y'know what they say about dudes with big feet .... ... big socks
I agree with charging more on clothes if they are bigger, what's the difference between this and a pizza? It's like charging the same for all sized pizzas at Pizza Hut. Small Shirt = £8 Medium Shirt - £9 Large Shirt = £10
Your logic, as usual, is flawed. What size Pizza you buy is optional. Small, medium, large; it's up to you so you pay the premium. What size clothes you buy however is not optional. Disregarding morbid obesity, you are the size you are. As such it is fairer and more practical to set a price somewhere in the middle and accept that the tiny (and it is tiny) loss in profit on the larger sizes is cancelled out by the tiny gain in profit on the smaller ones. The reason that this pricing structure does not work for (for instance) pizza's is because, as I pointed out above, pizza size is optional. If they all cost the same you'd go for the biggest pizza because there is no price premium and because even if you manage to eat only part of it you can keep the rest for later or share it with a friend. This would mean a loss of potential profit for the pizza seller. But you cannot wear clothes that are too big or too small for you, so the couturier does not lose potential profits either way. Of course, at some point clothes attain a size that caters for a very specific, limited market (e.g. High and Mighty for the oversize and tall man; Long Tall Sally for the exceptionally tall woman) and then the price does go up to compensate.
+1, I too take size 12 shoes I don't agree with women having to pay a premium for larger bras and commend M&S for changing their pricing, even though it was after a year long campaign.
Sorry but that's rubbish. People who buy small size clothes are being ripped off if we are going to be picky here, why should someone with 1/6 extra denim or cotton get the extra for free? In theory they are getting a better bargain than someone who buys small sized clothes. You look into subjects way too much, which makes your discussions a little laughable, just look into things from a normal point of view for a change... Some clothes I see in the shop, for example, XXL is normally twice the size as S, they are basically getting 2 shirts for the price of 1, yet you think it is alright for clothes to be all the same price? Pfft. You are bigger, you should have to pay more for more material, you are smaller, you pay a little less because you don't have as much material as the other clothes. It's simple logic, that works. Everything is flawed in life Nexxo if you look into it in the way you do. The whole reason they didn't win the price change is because people moaned, and moaned, and moaned, until they thought "What's the point in argueing with something that will never end, we say yes, they say no". End of the day, the people who are going to be against rising prices for larger clothes are going to be larger people, all small clothed people are going to be spending less, so why are they going to be against it? It would be idiotic.
duh huh, moron. you really think the 1/4 penny of extra material should result in extra cost for customers just because of their size? the large pizza is an option, clothes that fit arent. also, people that need larger sizes arent paying the same price as those needing smaller sizes. its the other way round.
