Tired of getting ripped by big retailers

[Crazy Dazz]

The more paranoid of us always worried this day would come, and I swear that in some areas it already has...

We've fallen for the trap of buying cheap Chinese stuff, because it was , well, cheap. (I know I certainly have.)
Local producers, manufacturers, retailers, etc, have slowly been put out of business. Products that were available from dozens of stores or even "factory direct" are now only found in the massive chain retailers who ship it in by the boat-load.
Now this mightn't be so bad if we were all still getting to benefit from the cheap prices. But alarmingly what I see now in many cases is the prices of Chinese rubbish rocketing back up to what we used to pay for QUALITY local stuff. It seems that in the absence of stiff local competition, somebody somewhere is ripping us off.