As you can see, when two Swiss brothers move to California and make tennis shoes in China for sale in England, the mark-up can be quite large...
The goods on sale have sometimes been around for quite a while, patiently awaiting the time when they will next be in fashion. This sometimes has an effect on them:
Those did used to be brown...
Also, some of the items on sale are not quite perfect in their packaging. The insides are fine, but the outsides, well, take a look:
Shopping at Hornsea Freeport is therefore a bit of a bargain-hunting expedition. Every time we come up to Hornsea we go there and usually buy a bunch of things. A lot of the shops are empty now, though, in part because of the recession and in part because Hornsea is miles from anywhere — the very fact that made it suitable for being Britain's first freeport when it opened.
I'll be sad if it closes. I can't find find tea from Taylor's of Harrogate in Colchester, but here, well, there it was.