My original post generated some great examples of excessive prices in airport.
I myself found this beauty in Miami this week.
I found I had packed one pair of socks short and thought I’d nip in to the handy mens stores near the Admirals Club at the 30 gates.
One pair of socks – $14 plus taxes.
MIA actually does not allow vendors to sell items at a mark-up. It’s in the lease contract.
That’s a premium brand of socks, and you’ll notice they go for the same on its website.
Here are the socks:
http://www.johnstonmurphy.com/microfiber-thin-rib-socks/7929.html?dwvar_7929_color=Black#start=1
I pay more than that for a skein of sock yarn then I have to knit them.
I understand the points that the commentors are making about a premium brand of socks and about the cost to make socks yourself.
But, um, I’m pretty sure my feet are happy with the Walmart brand socks that I use, and that if I were in the blogger’s shoes (pun intended), I’m pretty sure there’d be a rinse-socks-in-the-bathroom-sink exercise sometime on that trip.