Children’s television
Short Change
The story
Short Change is a UK consumer affairs programme for children, broadcast on BBC One and later on CBBC. It ran for 13 series from 1994 to 2005.
PriceBusters competition
On each programme, viewers were challenged to find the cheapest and most expensive prices for a given product throughout the country: two winners each week (one finding each extreme price) would win a boom-box stereo. Bill Bennett won the competition two weeks running, by finding the most expensive prices for the given products, and including Tesco's grocery delivery charge of £5. This made the cost of a Müller Rice around £5.40, much more expensive than prices found by any other entrant. Following the two consecutive wins, the rules were changed to omit delivery charges from the total cost for a particular product.