I said:
“Surely Aldi paid ACA to say that, or Nine was making nice because there was an advertising contract in the works.”
To which you responded:
“Like, isn’t that actually my whole point?”
The point I made was that Aldi probably paid for that gushing ACA coverage in some way.That’s the only point in my post, and you’ve come back implying that that was your point,
Then I said:
“Not that I could tell”, because I didn’t notice you make that point. I simply answered your question, thinking I might have missed something in one of your posts and I wasn’t going to read them again. And now you say about making that point:
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Why the hell would I?[/quote]
If you didn’t make that point, then don’t claim that you did.
You seem determined to pick fights and create hostility out of nothing.
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You seem determined to pick fights and create hostility out of nothing.
[/quote]Even when you agree with him he’ll find a way to twist it and argue against you. I think we must just ignore flamers.
Just to lighten the mood from the Aldi/ACA scandal, I just thought I’d fill you in on a trip to Coles last night. I went in to buy a cabbage for some chow mein for tea. Anyway, the guy at the checkout wouldn’t let me buy it without getting some carrots. I said to him I didn’t need any carrots, I had plenty at home but he said I couldn’t buy the cabbage by itself. I thought this was quite ridiculous and said as such and the guy just shrugged his shoulders and said “I’m sorry, but when you buy cabbage from here, you must buy carrots as well. It’s the new Coles Law.”
Thankyou, thankyou, I’m here until Thursday. Try the venison, it’s really deer.
Yeah I got that - the “not that I could tell” implied that I had lied about the real reason for such coverage, or misconstrued something in suggesting Aldi had positive coverage.
Sorry, but I actually didn’t even ask a question? Like, awesome if you added on a point to further discussion - but I had already answered a response directed to me, with that example.
See my example re: rain again. I’m not claiming to have made that point. I stated an outcome = Aldi receiving positive media coverage. You followed up with a reason why = great, but it wasn’t a point that I actually needed to make myself did I?
Interesting article in today’s Herald Sun (paywall) of the results of a survey on the use of self-serve checkouts.
I find these checkouts easy to use when you only have 2-3 items, but if I have a loaded trolley and in a hurry the scanning machines could be a problem. Often I have to rotate items at different angles before the barcodes can be scanned.
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Often I have to rotate items at different angles before the barcodes can be scanned.[/quote]
By any chance do you make the mistake that I made for about the first five years and think the scanner is in the tray-top surface where you weigh instead of the vertical surface where it really is?
The other time I mentioned this someone who works in supermarkets said the tray-top just has a mirror for the scanner. That’s why I thought that’s where the scanner was for so long, but it doesn’t work as well.
they are horrendously over priced - to give you an example.
last year i brought a 10" collapsable dobsonian telescope. At the australian geographic shop it retails for $999. My local indy astronomy shop it is $835. The guy at the indy shop also threw in a laser allignment device as well for free - normally around $89
According to Fairfax, British department store John Lewis is coming to Australia via a partnership with Myer. A new store, initially selling homewares, will be set up inside Myer at Warringah Mall in Sydney’s Northern Beaches by the end of this year, followed by stores in the Sydney and Melbourne CBDs, Melbourne’s Chadstone, Bondi Junction in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and Perth in 2017.
Woolworths will undergo a big restructure by closing 27 underperforming stores across Australia, a distribution centre at Broadmeadows in Melbourne’s north, 3 hotels, and slash 500 back office jobs. I have not seen anything this to the company before.
the concentration of Woolworths (and Coles) stores could probably be wound back a bit Just in my immediate area I now have 3 Woolies stories (the 3rd just opened recently) and 4 Coles stores.(the 4th just opened a few months ago).
In the case of Coles we have 2 stores pretty much opposite each other as one was an ex-Bilo store.
Yeah, I agree for here too.
Coles isn’t very dominant in Townsville, there’s a few of them, but they are completely trumped by Woolworths.
In the suburb I used to live in, there are 6 different Woolworths stores within about 4km from where I lived, which is overkill for a city the size of Townsville in my opinion. Two of those were in the same suburb on each different sides of the motorway.
Where I live now, there’s 3 nearby, and they’re currently building another one literally 2 streets over from where they already have one.