London's Heathrow airport put forward the nastiest tax-free mark down in Europe, as per the review made by shopping contrast website Kelkoo.

Additional than half of UK consumers considers tax-free airport provisions proffer common savings of 20% or much contrasted with suggested retail prices on the elevated street.

However the Kelkoo report discloses that exit lounge retailers are charging cost that are, on regular, just 6.2% cheaper, with Heathrow presenting the worst in general discounts of any foremost European airport, at only 3.1% fewer than high street prices.

Consumers exhausted more than £2.5bn in European airports on tax-free shopping previous year, setting aside £168m adjacent to high street prices. Although Kelkoo computed that had the similar consumers shopped online they might have set aside on average an additional of 6.1% or £156m with a overall discount of 12.3% or £324m.

In a anonymity-shopping work out, the prices of a model basket of 22 products, straddling the key groups of health and beauty, luxury, spirits, tobacco, fine foods , fashion, electrical, wine and confectionery were composed in 10 tax-free retail airport conduit, and contrasted to prices online and benchmarked next to the average RRP in confined high-street stores.