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| Thread ID: 137512 | 2014-07-17 02:41:00 | Reshuffling the deck chairs and chucking a few overboard at MS | Webdevguy (17166) | PC World Chat |
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| 1379491 | 2014-07-19 06:40:00 | Woolworths and Ford USA. Low margins, very successful companies. That was a long time ago but probably still true. Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1379492 | 2014-07-19 06:58:00 | Woolworths and Ford USA. Low margins, very successful companies. That was a long time ago but probably still true. Ken That is true although food is a necessity in life and large surpernarkets have always competed on price to get customers in the door as far as catering to the masses. Then you get the smaller scale niche gourmet food markets that cater for customers who can afford to pay for quality organic food or specialty food etc . Nosh is a good example of that in Auckland. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1379493 | 2014-07-19 07:29:00 | Woolworths didn't sell food in the era I am talking about. Ken :) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1379494 | 2014-07-19 07:45:00 | Woolworths didn't sell food in the era I am talking about. Ken :) What did they sell 100 years ago? |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1379495 | 2014-07-19 09:00:00 | Goods. Like Ford, they never sold an apple. Too much conscience and respect for the customer I guess. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1379496 | 2014-07-19 22:04:00 | What did they sell 100 years ago? All sorts of variety goods. The only comparison I could make would be a $2 shop. But better quality and range of prices. It was called a Five & ten cent store in its home country. Their sales method was to make a penny an item. i.e. low profit, large turnover. It was like going into Santas warehouse to me as a kid in the '40s www.theguardian.com Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1379497 | 2014-07-19 22:42:00 | Didn't that part of Woolworths business in NZ become DEKA? and then K-mart? |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1379498 | 2014-07-19 23:00:00 | McKenzies was a local equivalent of W'wths, but rather more sloppily run. They seemed to have a Ww very close to a McK in most places big enough to have more than one service station. Mckenzies vanished, Woolworths turned Australian and became Countdown and Dick Smith. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1379499 | 2014-07-22 06:44:00 | AFAIK Dick Smith was bought by Woolworths, which is not long after the time it turned to crap. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1379500 | 2014-07-23 08:17:00 | www.theverge.com At least this new chap is thinking, unlike Mr Ballmer, who has done little but run the thing into the ground. |
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