i shop at aldi, their products are good, i always get served by a human being, Australian, who spends their money in Aus, i hate going into woolies or safeway where they try to pressure people into using the self servicE. many of our kids who started their working life in these stores are now passed over. When we are travelling its a different matter as we always buy from the stores in the small towns we pass throug.
The Belmont Bear said
09:22 AM Oct 2, 2018
I shop at Woolies and I have never used or been pressured into using their self serve checkouts although saying that my wife will if she only has 1 or 2 items. The irony of that is up until 6 months ago she was a Woolies employee for over 30 years and often worked on the checkouts. For me the self serve area is really a convenience thing for those who have only a few things I don't often think that people doing full shops are using them as the normal checkouts are still being kept pretty busy. When a queue starts building it's the front end controller's job to open more checkouts by callling people who are probably being employed restocking the shelves or something. It would be nice to have a dozen checkouts open all of the time with half of the operators standing around twiddling their thumbs but this is not a practical way to operate a business and I'm sure that even Aldi wouldn't do it or you would be paying a lot more than you are.
Cheers
BB
PeterD said
03:55 PM Oct 2, 2018
I repeat again, DSE sold Australian when they were available. DSE did not get really going until the mid 70s. By that time the radio manufacturing industry was folding. In any case, they did not build any amateur radio products so they were never available to DSE. When the TV and radio plants folded so did the so did the parts suppliers. The mainstay of DSE was the supply of CB sets and accessories to the pirate operators (the supply of CB sets was not illegal, just the use of them.) The result of that was the PMG could not stop the unlicensed operation of the equipment. They thus brought regulations for the operation of equipment. The early Australian sets would not operate on frequencies that were already licensed in Oz (remember the 18 channel sets.) When UHF CB was introduced DSE sold Australian radios, Philips and GME brands.
As there were very little Oz products for DSE to retail, I don't see how forum members can keep on rabbiting about Dick Smith being a hypocrite.
aussie_paul said
05:23 PM Oct 2, 2018
PeterD wrote:
I repeat again, DSE sold Australian when they were available. DSE did not get really going until the mid 70s. By that time the radio manufacturing industry was folding. In any case, they did not build any amateur radio products so they were never available to DSE. When the TV and radio plants folded so did the so did the parts suppliers. The mainstay of DSE was the supply of CB sets and accessories to the pirate operators (the supply of CB sets was not illegal, just the use of them.) The result of that was the PMG could not stop the unlicensed operation of the equipment. They thus brought regulations for the operation of equipment. The early Australian sets would not operate on frequencies that were already licensed in Oz (remember the 18 channel sets.) When UHF CB was introduced DSE sold Australian radios, Philips and GME brands.
As there were very little Oz products for DSE to retail, I don't see how forum members can keep on rabbiting about Dick Smith being a hypocrite.
I shop at Woolies and I have never used or been pressured into using their self serve checkouts although saying that my wife will if she only has 1 or 2 items. The irony of that is up until 6 months ago she was a Woolies employee for over 30 years and often worked on the checkouts. For me the self serve area is really a convenience thing for those who have only a few things I don't often think that people doing full shops are using them as the normal checkouts are still being kept pretty busy. When a queue starts building it's the front end controller's job to open more checkouts by callling people who are probably being employed restocking the shelves or something. It would be nice to have a dozen checkouts open all of the time with half of the operators standing around twiddling their thumbs but this is not a practical way to operate a business and I'm sure that even Aldi wouldn't do it or you would be paying a lot more than you are.
Cheers
BB
As there were very little Oz products for DSE to retail, I don't see how forum members can keep on rabbiting about Dick Smith being a hypocrite.
I agree PeterD.
Aussie Paul.