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Old Jan 30, 2014 | 6:24 pm
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nrr
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For the last several years, I've been checking liquor (but mostly Cognac) prices at the duty free shops in LHR, ZRH and CDG and in most cases all you are saving is the local sales tax you would pay in your home state...in many cases the df prices were actually higher than what I would pay in the NYC metro area. Searching on the internet I've found some shops (in the USA) that were 30% less than the df prices--so while the TSA (new) rule is nice, IMHO so what
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