re: Items that must have huge profit margins

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A glass of ice tea at a restaurant. Costs $2.50 a glass and probably costs 5¢ to make.

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You have to consider, though, that it costs the restaurants a decent amount to land these items. Especially considering the rising costs of freight.

The one that always interests me is: Sunglasses. A lot of "luxury" sunglass brands come from the same factories. You pay a lot for name brands. This is obviously true for anything with a luxury brand name, really, but at least in the case of like a Watch or a clothing brand there is extremely noticeable difference in quality