QUOTE(babylon52281 @ Nov 20 2019, 01:01 AM)
Theoretically yes, but I wouldn't want to spend my holiday on a spreadsheet comparing prices and matching the buys so I can ngam-ngam hit above 5k yen for all the disparate purchases. lolz!
Yeah, different shops have different prices, and even same franchise shops have different prices at different locations. They haven't learnt our commercial darkarts of cartel price fixing yet.
u no need to compare like a spreadsheet
first few days, walk around and enter a few drug store on the way
look at the items u wanna buy and remember the price
if it's like cheaper, just buy it
sometime standalone price is cheaper than after tax refund price(at other place)...u never know
the store at less crowded/touristy place have a lower price(but lesser variance)
actually no one outside malaysia practice price fixing, they're all used to something called competition
only malaysian wanna sell at the max ceiling price which is why we can't compete