Some of those prices are inline with ours, some are certainly higher. Broadway plays cost 30% more than the same ones in the West End. A high end bottle of Scotch costs about the same here, but good wine might be 2 or 3 times higher here.

Most computer companies here stopped including floppies a year or two ago. I guess they feel people mostly use CD-R for computer to computer, or have a LAN.

Many European countries charge high import duties on anything electronic. Even before all this RoHS/WEEE crap went into effect. Now with the added EU regulations on disposal of electronics, it has become very expensive for companies to sell electronics in Europe. (I manufacture electronic equipment and between CE, RoHS, and import duties, I have to charge almost double to sell over there)

For a lot of electronics we also have the economy of scale, with 5 times the population of the UK.