BigOl64
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greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 4 th, 2017 at 10:13am: BigOl64 wrote on Aug 4 th, 2017 at 10:07am: greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 4 th, 2017 at 10:00am: BigOl64 wrote on Aug 4 th, 2017 at 9:44am: Sir lastnail wrote on Aug 3 rd, 2017 at 11:00pm: Just heard today Amazon has scoped out a suitable warehouse in Melbourne. Now watch all of the other import junkies crap themselves. Feel the fear Gerry and co ! That's how all of the Aussie manufacturers felt when you sold them out to the foreign competition whilst preserving your own greedy profit margins !
Finally it's the end game for the greedy Bricks and Mortar stores ! I have never seen anyone get as much enjoyment out of foreign companies coming to this country and destroying Australian business as you do. You are one fkked up little unit. Australian businesses are destroying themselves. High prices, coupled with second-rate service, are driving away their customers. Look at books, for example. I can get in my car and go to my local Dymocks, wait 5 or 10 minutes for someone to serve me, and then pay $30 for a book. Or, I can go online to bookdepository.com, find the exact same book for up to half price, and have it delivered to me for free. Supporting local business is all well and good, but If you can get the same thing, for a lot cheaper, delivered to your door, why wouldn't you support a foreign company that will provide that service? I don't mind paying the Australian premium. Either do I, when it's reasonable. If a book is $30 in Dymocks, and $25 at bookdepository.com, I'll go to Dymocks. If it's half price, though, that's a different story. Plus, as I mentioned before, service is just appalling in this country. I don't mind paying a premium for good service, and a good product, but I'm not going to hand over extra money when the person serving me is too busy texting, and the product I'm buying is twice the price. I support local business as much as I can, but only up to a certain point - if they start takin' the piss, I'll go online. Everyone wants the top dollar, but nobody wants to pay the price for it We have been plummeting head long into a service based economy, nobody wants to be any good at it We all get our panties in a bunch when tourism jobs are threatened by mining, don't care enough to make sure they are any good at it or even want to do that sort of sh1t for a living. We as a country couldn't organise a root in a brothel with a fist full of $100s All these problems as first world as they are, are of our own making, no-one else is to blame.
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