Originally Posted by
ricardian
My first contact with the truth about the NAAFI was in Akrotiri
I ran the mess shop. NAAFI gave us about a 5% discount and we could not afford to lower our prices or pay for the girl to run the shop.
I went downtown to the Chamber of Commerce. When they picked themselves off the floor laughing, they sent me to 3 shops. One was the main importer for smellies. He supplied NAAFI and gave me a standard 25% discount and special lines discount at 33%. I stocked a bigger, cheaper, range than NAAFI.
Another was a general merchant. He practically gave the stuff away.
Finally a stationers. Postcards £10 per 1000. You could not take photographs as good.