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Originally Posted by shadha
AsSalamu' Alaykum, 
If it's one thing about Muslim owned businesses that I just can't stand, it would have to be how over-priced everything is. They are totally taking advantage of the situation. From them charging outrageous prices for a single pound of Halal meat to them charging outrageous prices for simple nothing to it but cotton clothing, ahem...and ahem...these two are the biggest offenders of this that I have come across. 
You do have a few sites, ahem, who generally don't over-price but sometimes they are damn close to it [a regular, probably Hanes, cotton long-sleeved shirt with a tiny design on the side rockin in at 20 bucks? Are you serious?].
Sometimes you are lucky and find a fair-priced store,
ahem and ahem, and you get really happy and warm inside and end up blowing most of your check on it.
shadha- |
I'm so with you. Personally I never buy from 'Islamic clothing' stores if I can help it, when I can find perfectly acceptable items on the high street for half the price.
And about the halal meat - the halal chicken here is more expensive than the supermarket chicken, but I'm positive it is inferior in quality; it is tasteless and watery and just doesn't look very healthy. Now the UK is going free-range or at least upgrading the standard of their indoor farms, I think that's great, but I think halal butchers will continue to buy dead, diseased chickens from Allah knows where.
And continue to charge us the same price it would cost us to get a better chicken from Tesco's. [/VENT]