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| Thread ID: 111926 | 2010-08-17 00:58:00 | New Checkout machines at Countdown | kbp (7436) | PC World Chat |
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| 1128574 | 2010-08-17 13:52:00 | more people will loose jobs ... From what? Foodtown stores changing to Countdown? Me thinks not |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 1128575 | 2010-08-17 14:28:00 | I guess it wont be too long before George Orwell's prediction comes true then. I'm expecting the next knock on my door just may mean that I will be microchipped and a forcible DNA sample will be taken perhaps whether I like it or not. It may not be a really bad thing as it may prove how much English, Welsh, Irish, Red Indian, Kiwi and Maori blood I actually have in me. That George was not a bad chick but it was supposed to happen in 1984. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1128576 | 2010-08-17 21:45:00 | Dominion Rd - Foodtown converted to Countdown wow must have changed a fair bit then I was only living in balmoral 6 months ago :O |
GreacherTech (15784) | ||
| 1128577 | 2010-08-17 21:55:00 | They have had them at our local New World for a year or so. I dont use them. I like to help young people keep a job. But we all have to realise that when governments say they want to create jobs and they ask companies to do so that does not work. Companies (and bosses) do not wake up each morning and say "Wow I'd like to employee some more people" They wake and say I want to make more sales and cut back on my expenses. Winston and the Greens put our minimum wages up and added a 4th holiday week. That was a massive cost to small businesses. Here in Tauranga a local mussel factory has just doubled its production. They used to employ 200 people. The new plant has 38 mussel opening machines designed in New Zealand. So that's 200 jobs that wont be created. Another Taurnga conpany is working on a kiwi fruit picking machine. That's more jobs going. Many jobs can be automated and outsourced. Nurses, hairdressers and home care are a few of the safe jobs in western countries. Those young people need to be payed,that puts costs up=not good. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1128578 | 2010-08-18 00:35:00 | Have them in most of the supermarkets I've used between Auckland and Wellington. Will not use them ~ people need jobs and no supermarket is getting my Labour for free. |
Sue (33) | ||
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