£10 Haircuts?!
Posted on | 5 commentsEvery time I come back to England it seems to coincide with the urgent requirement to get a haircut and so once a year I head down to a local barbershop where I have been going for the last 10 years. Since I go during the day the conversation is always the same…
Hairdresser: You on holiday today then?
Me: Oh, no, I’m just back visiting my parents for a couple of weeks
HD: That’s nice, which part of the country have you come from?
Me: Err, India
HD: India?!
Me: Yeah, I live and work out there
HD: Really?! What are you doing out there?
Me: I work for one of those outsourcing companies
HD: You mean the ones that are taking all our jobs like the call centres and we can’t understand a word they are saying?
ME: Not quite, we build websites and don’t have a call centre
HD: Hmm, it won’t be long before they bloody well take all our jobs and no one has anything left to do here!
Me: Ah, but they can’t outsource hairdressers now can they!
HD: 
What’s more is that as sure as night follows the day, the price has steadily gone up and I don’t know if I’m going to reveal my true age here or something, but I remember when a good, honest haircut cost £4.50. Every year the price has increased and now we’ve reached the ludicrous price of £10. I almost choked when she told me the price, ten quid for 15-20 minutes of work, if this carries on I’ll work out a way to outsource hairdressers myself!
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I noticed a few weeks ago that the standard price for a wet shave in Cambridge is £15. In Chennai it cost Rs 40.
The 30 fold price difference made me think about an outsourcing opportunity.
I’ve been thinking about this, I don’t think it’s possible to outsource haircutting and wet shaving, Ed!
It must be possible.
Great blog post Pete. Tried to press the like, but it said URL invalid. My prob or yours?
Almost certainly a problem with my rubbish programming skills! Thanks for the Like though