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I use wiggle and crc, don't differentiate other availability/price
Halfords -25% of the UK market !!
Round my way, SW London, a lot of the bikes locked up to the street sheffield stands are Halfords brands, Apollo, Pendleton, Carrera and Boardman. For a lot of people Halfords is where you go for a bike.
Provided the UK remains in the EU there is probably no issue here, provided all they are considering is online sales. Some of the best deals come from within other EU member states and they are going to be the main source of online competition to a merged chain reaction wiggle company going forward. If the idea is to protect business were part of their income comes from on line sales then there is a potentual issue.
If the UK leaves the EU and irland remains then all bets are off as to how this would impact.
But aren't CRC a Northern Irish company? Not sure what your point is because if the UK leaves the EU this will include NI. Sorry if I missed something in your point.
I think the reference is to the likely hood of customers in the uk being charged Vat, import duty and the £8 handling fee from the post office (charging you money, for the privilege of charging you money) much like buying anything from the US, if we leave the EU, so no more buying stuff from those German discount retailers. of course once the trade deals have all be sorted it'll back to business as usual, in 10 years time or so.