I just realized something..

[felix_unger]

Aldi don't sell tobacco products. I wonder why that is?

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rgds,

Pete
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[Government Shill #2]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:21:26 +1000, felix_unger <m...@nothere.com> wrote:

>
>Aldi don't sell tobacco products. I wonder why that is?

Google broken? Oh dear!

"Brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht founded Aldi in 1948 (the name is a contraction
of Albrecht Discount). According to company lore, the brothers were released
from allied prisoner-of-war camps after World War II and returned home to the
war-ravaged industrial city of Essen, where their parents had run a small store
since the early 1900s.

The Albrechts worked together until 1961, when they fell out and split the
company into two chains: Aldi Nord, owned by Theo, and Aldi Sud, owned by Karl.
The reason for the rift was disagreement over whether to sell tobacco products
at the checkout counters."
http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/sct1106/retail_germany_aldi.php

Shill #2
--
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance
to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov

[felix_unger]

"I'm not young enough to know everything"


See that Coles has started a new promotion. they'll happily spend
millions of dollars on advertising to lure customers, but they won't
just simply sell at the lowest prices so there's virtually no need to
advertise, because customers will buy from them anyway. amazing that the
brains that run these big companies never seem to learn that simple
lesson, and follow that business model. then they wonder why Bunnings
and Aldi are so successful. quality products at reasonable prices will
win every time.

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rgds,

Pete
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“If Julia is the answer, then what was the stupid question?!”

"Julia finally got something right. Older people don't vote Labor, because they have seen too many incompetent, mismanaging, money-wasting Labor governments"

“It doesn't matter [who the leader is] the Labor Party is rotten, the policies stink, the lies insufferable, and the waste intolerable. The Muppets could do a better job!”

“All that's needed now is a small miracle to rid us of the worst prime minister and the worst government in Australia's history”

"If the WORLD as a whole cut ALL emissions tomorrow, the average temperature of the planet's not going to drop for several hundred years, perhaps over on thousand years" - Tim Flannery, Climate Commissioner

"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation" - Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville

"Currently, China and India combined emit 20 times as much as Australia each day, and that factor is increasing rapidly. Australia's annual savings by 2020 could be emitted by China and India within five days" - Dr. David Evans former Govt Climate Adviser.

“What I see is a country bravely beating along to the agenda of some ideological people, in this case the socialist left of the ALP and the Greens, to take away what is a natural advantage. At the end of the day, we are paying someone else to use our coal” - Peter Costello, former Federal Treasurer - http://tinyurl.com/costello-carbon-tax

“Wayne Swan threatening the Banks, is a bit like being savaged by a dead sheep!

[Fred Nurk]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:50:35 +1000, felix_unger <m...@nothere.com>
wrote:

>"I'm not young enough to know everything"

“I don't care to belong to a newsgroup that accepts people like me as
members.”
Groucho Marx (1895-1977).

[MontyCarlo]

FYI Coles and Bunnings are run by the same company ie Wesfarmers

[Coach]

Bunnings and Coles are NOT run by Wesfarmers. They are OWNED by
Wesfarmers, and are run by the exact same management team they have
always been run by. Wesfarmers are a Western Australian based public
company that has interests in mining, transport, logistics, and more
recently, retail operations. You saying they "run" Coles is like me
saying I "run" Telstra because I once slept in a Telstra phone box on
a stormy night when my ex husband belted me and I didn't have the 50
cents to ring the cops.

[felix_unger]

you don't need money to call 000

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rgds,

Pete
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“If Julia is the answer, then what was the stupid question?!”

“Wayne Swan threatening the Banks, is a bit like being savaged by a dead sheep!”

[Coach]

000 is for life endangering situations. My life wasn't in danger as I
had already removed myself from that danger. In futurer, it'd be swell
if you read my post properly before giving wrong advice. Thank you.

[felix_unger]

so why did you need to call the cops?

[Coach]

To assist me with taking out an AVO of course. Or do you think
domestic violence against women is ok do you?

[felix_unger]

and why would you think that the local constabulary would attend a phone
box on a stormy nite to assist you in doing that? in futurer should you
find yourself in such a predicament again, you mite like to consider
your options more carefully.

> Or do you think domestic violence against women is ok do you?
>

in certain circumstances.. like to prevent one stabbing me to death with
a kitchen knife, or any other kind of knife for that matter.

[Coach]

Um, because it's their job perhaps?

[Peter Bowditch]

felix_unger <m...@nothere.com> wrote:

>they wonder why Bunnings
>and Aldi are so successful

Bunnings is owned by the same people who own Coles.

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[Graham Cooper]

On Apr 25, 11:04 pm, Peter Bowditch <myfirstn...@ratbags.com> wrote:
> felix_unger <m...@nothere.com> wrote:
> >they wonder why Bunnings
> >and Aldi are so successful
>
> Bunnings is owned by the same people who own Coles.
>

If you lived in Perth in the 90s you'd know the Bunnings jingle off by
heart.

I think their success can be attributed to my days as a Concrete Lab
Technician and System Administrator for Buckeridge Group of Companies,
WA's 5th biggest company.

There were 82 Giant Concrete Trucks all with big letters BGC on the
side, a huge icon for Perth, everyone saw them every day.

It was probably my skillful accuracy with the brick crusher that
scored the perfect 7.0 MPA compressive strength on the first
Thermalite Block, nearly 1/3 the strength of standard concrete and you
could make a raft out of the stuff.

With "BGc" in everybody's mind all throughout Perth, thanks to my
trusty skills keeping the company moving from strength to strength,
"BunninGs" was an easy jingle to mainstream, about 40 ads a day of it
for 10 years.

Of course it rode on the back of Ziggy's? Warehouse, next door to one
of the first Bunnings in Cannington, near BGC Cement Plant in
CanningVale.

A greasy fat hairy dude on TV every night with $2 specials...
"WE'RE NOT CRAZY... BUT WE'RE CHEAAAAP"

then came "Bunnings Warehouse, doot do do doot"
"where lowest prices are just the beginning"

All a big mind fuck really, you don't see all the fingerless home
handmen on TV every night..

Try cutting a 5 inch hole in your roof..


Herc

[Brad]

Lovely story but a load of shit really. Bunnings is hugely successful in all the other states and I dare say that none of us have ever seen BCG trucks.

[Clocky]

That was WA Salvage and the slogan was "We're not fancy but we're cheap".

> then came "Bunnings Warehouse, doot do do doot"
> "where lowest prices are just the beginning"
>
> All a big mind fuck really, you don't see all the fingerless home
> handmen on TV every night..
>
> Try cutting a 5 inch hole in your roof..
>

Try taking your meds.

[DavidW]

MontyCarlo wrote:
>>
>> See that Coles has started a new promotion.

Speaking of Coles and tobacco, they exclude cigarette purchases from the total
in determining the $30 fuel discount threshold, whereas Woolies do include them.

[Trevor]

"DavidW" <n...@email.provided> wrote in message
news:jnd3qc$1c4$1...@speranza.aioe.org...

> Speaking of Coles and tobacco, they exclude cigarette purchases from the
> total in determining the $30 fuel discount threshold, whereas Woolies do
> include them.

No point in worrying about Coles fuel vouchers, their Shell servo's are
always dearer prices, and you can usually get fuel at the same price
elsewhere without a voucher. Woolies/Caltex are not as bad, pity I don't
have a Woolies anywhere near where I live though. I used a Coles voucher
tonight, and saved 1cent per litre compared to the cheapest servo nearby,
not worth the trouble really.

Trevor.

[Sylvia Else]

Coles don't seem to be doing it hard.

If you advertise, then you can sell at higher prices, and thus make more
on each sale. Coles may have determined that this more than offsets the
cost of advertising. You'd have to see the numbers (which they won't
show you) to form a concluded view about whether their business model works.

Sylvia.

[Coach]

If it wasn't worth the trouble, why did you do it? What OTHER bodily
actions can't you control?

[felix_unger]

They have, along with Wollies, been doing it harder since Aldi came on
the scene- advertising more, the 'Down, Down' campaign, and lowering
prices, $2 milk, etc.,

>
> If you advertise, then you can sell at higher prices, and thus make
> more on each sale. Coles may have determined that this more than
> offsets the cost of advertising. You'd have to see the numbers (which
> they won't show you) to form a concluded view about whether their
> business model works.

We certainly know the Aldi / Bunnings business model works, which KMart
has now adopted also. In the case of Kmart, I think that was their only
option in an attempt to combat the online shopping threat.

>
> Sylvia.

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rgds,

Pete
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“If Julia is the answer, then what was the stupid question?!”

"Julia finally got something right. Older people don't vote Labor, because they have seen too many incompetent, mismanaging, money-wasting Labor governments"

"If the WORLD as a whole cut ALL emissions tomorrow, the average temperature of the planet's not going to drop for several hundred years, perhaps over on thousand years" - Tim Flannery, Climate Commissioner

“Wayne Swan threatening the Banks, is a bit like being savaged by a dead sheep!”

Give Juliar the boot!.. http://ausnet.info/pics/boot.jpg

[felix_unger]

and their vouchers are useless if you don't want to use Shell petrol

>
> Trevor.

>
>
>


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rgds,

Pete
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“If Julia is the answer, then what was the stupid question?!”

[Brad]

On Saturday, April 28, 2012 6:30:55 AM UTC+10, felix_unger wrote:
> On 27-April-2012 8:59 PM, Trevor wrote:
>
> > "DavidW"<n...@email.provided> wrote in message
> > news:jnd3qc$1c4$1...@speranza.aioe.org...
> >> Speaking of Coles and tobacco, they exclude cigarette purchases from the
> >> total in determining the $30 fuel discount threshold, whereas Woolies do
> >> include them.
> > No point in worrying about Coles fuel vouchers, their Shell servo's are
> > always dearer prices, and you can usually get fuel at the same price
> > elsewhere without a voucher. Woolies/Caltex are not as bad, pity I don't
> > have a Woolies anywhere near where I live though. I used a Coles voucher
> > tonight, and saved 1cent per litre compared to the cheapest servo nearby,
> > not worth the trouble really.
>
> and their vouchers are useless if you don't want to use Shell petrol
>
> >
> > Trevor.

Then just buy the fuel from any garage and take the docket to an IGA for a rebate.

[DavidW]

felix_unger wrote:
> On 27-April-2012 10:35 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> If you advertise, then you can sell at higher prices, and thus make
>> more on each sale. Coles may have determined that this more than
>> offsets the cost of advertising. You'd have to see the numbers (which
>> they won't show you) to form a concluded view about whether their
>> business model works.
>
> We certainly know the Aldi / Bunnings business model works, which
> KMart has now adopted also. In the case of Kmart, I think that was
> their only option in an attempt to combat the online shopping threat.

In KMart a few weeks ago microwave ovens were going for $45 each.

[Graham Cooper]

Counting numbers not your thing?

1 2 3 4 ...

It all started in WA, same with Cash Converters, there will be a 1000
of them in Eastern States before you know it!


http://l.yimg.com/ea/img/-/120209/truckstop_3_17j6v4k-17j6v4l.jpg

This one looks like it needs a bit more Hydrofluoric Acid

Herc

[F Murtz]

felix_unger wrote:
>
> Aldi don't sell tobacco products. I wonder why that is?
>

They sell booze.

[Clocky]

The quality of which is likely to be much lower than what Aldi sells.

[DavidW]

They are smaller than usual and if you request lower than maximum power (700 W)
they do it by alternating between maximum power and zero power, which is a bit
crappy, but what do you expect for $45? What do they go for at Aldi?

[Wolfgang Wildeblood]

> crappy...

Which is how all microwave ovens work.

[DavidW]

Not all, but since I posted someone at work pointed that out you need to pay
upwards of $350 to get genuinely variable power. That doesn't alter that it is
still very crappy. You get local overheating and kernels of corn exploding etc.
while power is on that way.

[Clocky]

All the cheap microwaves operate in that way, as does ours (well, a $99 one
but that was a few years ago now) but it seems to do the job.

> What do they go for at Aldi?

Dunno, we don't have an Aldi but from reading I get the impression that Aldi
sell reasonable quality stuff but the same can't be said for the cheap house
branded stuff Kmart flogs which is utter shit.

[BruceS]

No, you don't have to spend that much. I don't recall what we spent
for our latest microwave oven, but it was nowhere near that. It's a
Panasonic "Inverter" model we bought at Costco. I can't find the
manual, to get their description of the tech, but it has variable
power. With the on/off kind (I've had those before), you can hear the
switching. This one doesn't do that, but instead has a variable power
output and keeps the level constant while operating.