Re: Mad Max Scenario - 2008.

"Toby Ponsenby" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:07:54 +1100, Michael C blathered on in :
>
>> "Geroge W Frost" <frosty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>> But, the only thing is what they have out Calder Park, Cash or crerdit
>>> card and licence before the attendant turns the bowser on. Or a
pre-pay
>>> bowser, either with cash or card
>>
>> If i've got enough fuel I will go to another servo and never come back.
>
> Ditto. And i use a *****load* of fuel.
>
>> I don't think it's the solution because they will lose too many
>> customers.
>
> Stiff ****.
>
>
> It's the old shoplifting gag. Shop-Stealing is the new term, I believe.
> Each year we're harangued by arseholes bleating about shop-lifting.
> Each year there's a calling together of the faithful, at which meeting a
> flurry of press releases are spewed forth detailing the MASSIVE losses
> experienced by those poor long-suffering retailers. And the press simply
> prints/broadcasts them without comment. Lazy ****s
>
> What's *always* left unsaid.
> Once upon a time, retailers actually employed staff.
> These Staff were there to go get stuff for customers, from BEHIND the
> counter. This quaint old fa****oned system is still in use today. Spare
> parts sales springs readily to mind. Now it could be argued that the
only
> businesses left doing things this way are doing so because they regard
> their customers as being too thick to pick out the correct bits and
pieces
> Hmm.
> But I digress.
> These Staff used to cost money to have there.
> Those costs were significant in the scheme of things.
> But those costs are now minimized, and we see that the major retailers -
> the ones with all the money - are busy as all **** attempting to remove
> 'staff' completely. Lets not worry too much about how this is being
> achieved, but warehouse automation and RFID get a look-in here.
> There's a reason for all this - it's called profit.
> Needless to say, the shoplifters get a better go at the matter because
of
> the absence of staff and the ready access to product. Ever wonder why
> tiny items are stuck to big cards?
> But the bleating about theft? Well, like I say, tough titties. It's
> simply an *expense* of doing business whose pro-genitor is increased
> profit from removing another *expense*.
>
> I also take immense exception at being informed indirectly that I'm a
> thief. In point of fact, the turds setting their shops up like jails
> actually are *directly* telling all who wander into their stores that
> they are thieves.
> Now it has to be said that it takes one to know one. Ferinstance, a $5
> bunch of flowers sells out for $40. ****, the name calling is obviously
a
> protection of their thieving retail practices more so than anything else
> - they're just getting in first in an attempt to claim the high moral
> ground.
> There's an exceeding fine line between rank profiteering and simple
> theft. That line is defined by party political donations more so than
any
> moral conscience generated out of a dumb and dumber community.
>
>
> I've never knocked off a single item form a shop anywhere. Certainly not
> even the 'lollies and chocolates thing' exceedingly stupid people just
> love to admit they've been involved in - for **** knows what reason. The
> innocence of youth definitely cannot be an excuse for that behaviour in
> any way, after all.
>
> So, to be treated like I have, and I will, thieve stuff is the pinnacle
> of insulting behaviour from turds that have increased their
profitability
> massively and then going out and bragging about it to their shareholders
> and the 'market'. You see, they've done this at the expense of the
> community they accuse of being thieves. The money they make has
> incidentally been ****fted surreptitiously from the staff they once had
to
> pay for their labour to 'shareholders' who don't actually have to work
at
> all to earn money.
>
> Like I said, Ditto:-)
>
>
> I have a long list of servos and stores that I will NOT spend a cent in.
> Just for ****s and giggles I include
arsehole-run-open-for-a-few-hours-a-
> day lunchbars that can't manage to serve in turn. (Always tell them why
> you're not buying as you leave 'selections' on the counter before you
> walk out).
> The truly annoying thing is that the Cor****ados actively engaged in
> rorting the community are making so much from the rorting that they're
> getting to the point where avoiding lining their pockets will soon
enough
> be impossible.  They're continuously expanding. **** - we now have the
> two biggest bandits in the community shacked up together  - OilCo and
> GrocerCo.
> We know that OilCo has virtually removed independent operators. We also
> have seen the demise of the corner store- the draper, the butchers and
so
> on at the hands of both the Supermarkets and the Category Killers, where
> the Lowest prices are just the beginning.
> Yeah, right.

And we see quality and diversity slide into oblivian as a consequence.

> I distinctly recall an 'official' from the Fruit and Vegetable Growers
> association being challenged recently on a radio interview about the
> price of the stuff his mob was involved in.
> He turned vicious... and said that his people hadn't had a farm-gate
> price increase for 15 YEARS!!
> Think about the pricing of F&V this past decade and a half.....
> And Never Ask a dairy farmer anything about what he's having to send
> stuff out the gate for.
>
> It's almost a shoe-in that the entire retail sector in Australia will be
> in the clammy grasp of just a few majors and the odd Franchise holder
> they haven't taken over cheap as chips after throttling them with loss
> leaders for a few years. They can afford that, you see.
>
> Is it any wonder that they 'appear' **** scared of theft? - They just
> can't help seeing a reflection of themselves in Every Customer. That's
> why.
>
> And
>
> **** them and all who sail in them.
>
>

**** Tobes, you've pretty much mirrored my thoughts on this subject.