Dick Smith

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"pedro" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 14:07:18 +1000, "SG1" <Lost@the.races.com> wrote:


"pedro" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message

They required licences that the overwhelming proportion of his target
market (buyers) did not possess, nor did he care about that.

The product was legal to sell just not legal to use without a licence.

It was NOT legal to sell it to a person who did not possess the
appropriate licence.

Back in the 70s there was NO law preventing sale. No prosecution of
a seller took place, though some end users were in court.

 

[Rod Speed]

pedro <me@privacy.net> wrote

Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote

Best practice in their case would be to have a
"maître D'" to assign someone to be served.

No one does it that way.

Except crap Telstra stores ....

They don't do it that way either.

The banks do tho.

 

[pedro]

On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:40:50 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote

Best practice in their case would be to have a
"maître D'" to assign someone to be served.

No one does it that way.

Except crap Telstra stores ....

 

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 09:25:10 +0800, "Robert" <robert@no.email> wrote:

"Jeßus" <j@invalid.lan> wrote in message
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I think you'll find those sort of margins aren't that unusual in
retail.

Probably, fortunately I've never had to work in retail.

Nor I, thankfully.

One notable exception I can think of is things like milk. It was years
ago now, but a friend had a corner store (remember those?) and IIRC,
his profit on a bottle of milk was something like 5 cents.

I can remember going shopping with my mother and getting stuff like
flour, and sugar being measured out from bulk, and bacon sliced to order.

I have some memories of the same - but only just.
Ironically, these days that's how I buy flour and bacon
Sugar I buy in 25KG sacks.


Do you save a lot per year doing that? I would have thought these days
there would be minimal savings. Do you just enjoy going to certain places
and buying in bulk?

I do that for a couple of reasons. I live in a remote area, so I keep
shopping trips to a minimum. I also mainly use spelt flour (an early
form of wheat), which is expensive and even more expensive in small
quantities from supermarkets or health food stores (I have a mild
wheat intolerance and spelt seems to agree with me better than
'ordinary' wheat). It is grown locally and I can get it in bulk from
one place in Launceston which sells nothing but flour.

Things like bacon I get from one particular farm that cures their own
and is very high quality. I also get much of my beef there as well as
it is as good as I've ever come across anywhere, at any price. I also
usually leave there with lots of extra freebies, such as an extra kilo
of bacon, some pumpkins, or whatever else they have an excess of

I'm not necessarily saving much money doing it that way, but I do at
least get the best quality at prices basically equivalent to
supermarket quality. The scotch fillet I buy for around $25/KG retails
for $40 or more in Launceston delis, for example.

 

[F Murtz]

Rod Speed wrote:

pedro <me@privacy.net> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote

Best practice in their case would be to have a
"maître D'" to assign someone to be served.

No one does it that way.

Except crap Telstra stores ....

They don't do it that way either.

The banks do tho.

Some telstra stores have maitre d sometimes probably depends on the
amount of flack they are getting from waiting customers because of not
enough staff. but there are two sorts of these stores in shopping
centres,a few telstra owned ones and the rest franchised Telstra being
the worst for being kept waiting in my experience.

 

[Rod Speed]

"F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Rod Speed wrote:
pedro <me@privacy.net> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote

Best practice in their case would be to have a
"maître D'" to assign someone to be served.

No one does it that way.

Except crap Telstra stores ....

They don't do it that way either.

The banks do tho.


Some telstra stores have maitre d sometimes probably depends on the
amount of flack they are getting from waiting customers because of not
enough staff. but there are two sorts of these stores in shopping
centres,a few telstra owned ones and the rest franchised Telstra being the
worst for being kept waiting in my experience.

Yeah, we only have the franchised ones here and the
only time I have used one the waiting was pretty bad.

Mate of mine uses them quite a bit, must ask him.

I have run one to check on what someone I know
claims was available and got a pretty quick and
accurate answer. Didn't get as good a result with
the Optus franchise operation with a question
about what they were up to mobile towers wise,
but that's a pretty pathetically inadequate sample.

None of them use a maitre d here. At least one of
the banks does, I wouldn't go inside a bank more
than about once in 10 years now.

 

[F Murtz]

Rod Speed wrote:

"F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Rod Speed wrote:
pedro <me@privacy.net> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote

Best practice in their case would be to have a
"maître D'" to assign someone to be served.

No one does it that way.

Except crap Telstra stores ....

They don't do it that way either.

The banks do tho.


Some telstra stores have maitre d sometimes probably depends on the
amount of flack they are getting from waiting customers because of not
enough staff. but there are two sorts of these stores in shopping
centres,a few telstra owned ones and the rest franchised Telstra being
the worst for being kept waiting in my experience.

Yeah, we only have the franchised ones here and the
only time I have used one the waiting was pretty bad.

Mate of mine uses them quite a bit, must ask him.

I have run one to check on what someone I know
claims was available and got a pretty quick and
accurate answer. Didn't get as good a result with
the Optus franchise operation with a question
about what they were up to mobile towers wise,
but that's a pretty pathetically inadequate sample.

None of them use a maitre d here. At least one of
the banks does, I wouldn't go inside a bank more
than about once in 10 years now.

The maitre d thing is not permanent, it happens when the customers get
antsy, which in reality is self defeating because it takes one person
away from doing the work,(they must have decided that it keeps customers
happy)If this works, there is no accounting for sheeple.

 

[Rod Speed]

"F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Rod Speed wrote:


"F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Rod Speed wrote:
pedro <me@privacy.net> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote

Best practice in their case would be to have a
"maître D'" to assign someone to be served.

No one does it that way.

Except crap Telstra stores ....

They don't do it that way either.

The banks do tho.


Some telstra stores have maitre d sometimes probably depends on the
amount of flack they are getting from waiting customers because of not
enough staff. but there are two sorts of these stores in shopping
centres,a few telstra owned ones and the rest franchised Telstra being
the worst for being kept waiting in my experience.

Yeah, we only have the franchised ones here and the
only time I have used one the waiting was pretty bad.

Mate of mine uses them quite a bit, must ask him.

I have run one to check on what someone I know
claims was available and got a pretty quick and
accurate answer. Didn't get as good a result with
the Optus franchise operation with a question
about what they were up to mobile towers wise,
but that's a pretty pathetically inadequate sample.

None of them use a maitre d here. At least one of
the banks does, I wouldn't go inside a bank more
than about once in 10 years now.

The maitre d thing is not permanent, it happens when the customers get
antsy,

Can't say I have ever seen that with a Telstra shop,
but then I don't go in them that often at all.

I did see in the ComBank, and it was very quiet at the time.

which in reality is self defeating because it takes one person away from
doing the work,(they must have decided that it keeps customers happy)

True unless they use some ape who wouldn't
normally have anything to do with the customers.

> If this works,

Bet it doesn't.

> there is no accounting for sheeple.

 

[pedro]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 15:36:00 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

pedro <me@privacy.net> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote

Best practice in their case would be to have a
"maître D'" to assign someone to be served.

No one does it that way.

Except crap Telstra stores ....

They don't do it that way either.

They do, actually. You need to get out more. The world is bigger
than your backyard.

>The banks do tho.

Got one right.

 

[Rod Speed]

"pedro" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 15:36:00 +1100, "Rod Speed"
rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

pedro <me@privacy.net> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote

Best practice in their case would be to have a
"maître D'" to assign someone to be served.

No one does it that way.

Except crap Telstra stores ....

They don't do it that way either.

They do, actually.

None of ours do.

The banks do tho.

Got one right.

Got them both right.

 

[pedro]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:06:45 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

"pedro" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 15:36:00 +1100, "Rod Speed"
rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

pedro <me@privacy.net> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote

Best practice in their case would be to have a
"maître D'" to assign someone to be served.

No one does it that way.

Except crap Telstra stores ....

They don't do it that way either.

They do, actually.

None of ours do.

The banks do tho.

Got one right.

Got them both right.

If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong

 

[Rod Speed]

"pedro" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:06:45 +1100, "Rod Speed"
rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:



"pedro" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 15:36:00 +1100, "Rod Speed"
rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

pedro <me@privacy.net> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote

Best practice in their case would be to have a
"maître D'" to assign someone to be served.

No one does it that way.

Except crap Telstra stores ....

They don't do it that way either.

They do, actually.

None of ours do.

The banks do tho.

Got one right.

Got them both right.

If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong

Even sillier and more pig ignorant than you usually manage.