45 pence each? So how much were the little packs of half dozen or so they have hanging up on display?
Packet of ten screws with nuts £2.70
Packet of ten washers £1.78
Total £4.48 for a set of ten screws/nuts/washers; ergo £44.80 for 100 sets.
No bigger (bulk) packs on show, so
that's the price you pay if you want to purchase this size fastener from this outlet.
No wonder they can flog PROC power tools so cheap; the run-of-the-mill hardware is subsidising them something rotten.
Remember when the bloke in the ironmonger's shop wore a brown coat and dispensed screws in single numbers from a large waxed-cardboard box which he reached from a huge wall of them by climbing an impossibly tall stepladder?
Poetry.................
FLJ