photohiker wrote:Lol.
Bushwalking stores do not stock their shops by individual orders on multiple overseas suppliers.
icefest wrote:If the wholesaler has enough of a margin to absorb 30% currency fluctuations, then they have a markup of at least 30%. When you add retail markup it's no wonder that many things are cheaper overseas.
No amount of hedging will limit customers going overseas for cheaper products, due to that time difference. Not even 10% gst will change that.
The only time that Australian retailers win is when the aud is dropping quickly.
vicrev wrote:We dont even produce enough food to support ourselves...
Sorry,Dick Smith is a two faced hypocrite as far as I am concerned,he made his money importing cheap asian trash,now he is spouting Buy Australian.. .....A diet of beef,mutton ?..we now live export it & killed Oz jobs in the food processing industry, thanks to our gutless politicians who have not got the balls to stand up to the multi-nationals......LachlanB wrote:vicrev wrote:We dont even produce enough food to support ourselves...
I think Australia still exports more food than it imports, although we are on a trend towards greater imports that exports. Although, you'd probably get sick of a diet of beef, mutton and wheat alone... But I think Dick Smith's attempt to have a brand that only sources it's products in Australia was really good, plus they made such nice Peanut Butter. Shame Woolies stopped stocking it. /:
Mmm this so called international trade is loaded one way,certainly not the Oz way......wonder what would happen if GST was only on imported goods , not on Oz grown/produced items...nope that would be too hard,got to think of the multis & their profits......GPSGuided wrote:It's called international trade. We make our money and jobs where our strengths are while buy those that are of value elsewhere. It all washes out than to continue to support the rot.
vicrev wrote:we dont even produce enough food to support ourselves
vicrev wrote: Mmm this so called international trade is loaded one way,certainly not the Oz way......wonder what would happen if GST was only on imported goods , not on Oz grown/produced items...nope that would be too hard,got to think of the multis & their profits......
vicrev wrote: Sorry,Dick Smith is a two faced hypocrite as far as I am concerned,he made his money importing cheap asian trash,now he is spouting Buy Australian.. .....A diet of beef,mutton ?..we now live export it & killed Oz jobs in the food processing industry, thanks to our gutless politicians who have not got the balls to stand up to the multi-nationals......
vicrev wrote:Mmm this so called international trade is loaded one way,certainly not the Oz way......wonder what would happen if GST was only on imported goods , not on Oz grown/produced items...nope that would be too hard,got to think of the multis & their profits......GPSGuided wrote:It's called international trade. We make our money and jobs where our strengths are while buy those that are of value elsewhere. It all washes out than to continue to support the rot.
vicrev wrote:Sounds like the Multi-Nationals are the good guys
I do not think our present Gov is capable of managing a %$@# up in a brewery ........Nor the ones before them......GPSGuided wrote:vicrev wrote:Sounds like the Multi-Nationals are the good guys
Multi-nationals are there and won't go away any time soon, just like you and me. The key for the nation is to manage them for win-win than being managed one way by those business interests.
GPSGuided wrote:At this point in time, the govt is certainly not interested in artificially supporting sections of the industry
vicrev wrote: We export more food than we import ?...If all the imported food was taken off the shelves,all that would be left would be packets of peas & tins of pineapple..next time you are in a supermarket have a LOOK at the labels where it is from
vicrev wrote:Sounds like the Multi-Nationals are the good guys ...no imported trash before 1982? are you serious ?.......We export more food than we import ?...If all the imported food was taken off the shelves,all that would be left would be packets of peas & tins of pineapple..next time you are in a supermarket have a LOOK at the labels where it is from,also,chances are the property you are standing in while looking at the produce is owned by the good guy Multi-national......
Sorry,Dick Smith is a two faced hypocrite as far as I am concerned,he made his money importing cheap asian trash,now he is spouting Buy Australian..
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