Around here things are pretty cheap... unless it's something a tourist would want to buy. Then the price goes up just because they know the tourist has the money and the will to pay for it. When I was at the store the price of cotton balls was three times as much as the rolled cotton, which in fact you could make more cotton balls with than you could buy in the bag. So I decided to buy the rolled cotton and roll my own cotton balls (learned how by watching a Maasai woman roll them in the clinic). Using her method you can actually make them pretty quick!
I don't know how much the difference is between rolled cotton and cotton balls at home. Maybe the price difference is the same there, but I do know that here, the prices definitely do go up if it's something a tourist would want. Way around it... live like a local. Instead of buying the Lays chips for nine dollars, go buy the local generic brand for one. A lot of tourists though are willing to pay that much for the lays brand, I believe, not for the chips but for the connection to home.
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