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No thanks for Woolies Staff

| December 18, 2008

I went into Woolies yesterday and you can feel lack of motivation from every member of staff working there. This is the dying throes of a business. I was given a black bin liner for my purchases for Mike’s sake! Reading this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/7788729.stm is probably the reason why. I have no doubt that just [...]

Another Blow for the Small Man

| December 18, 2008

Or woman in this case. I just love it when big corporate enterprises are brought to attention by a person working with resolve and right. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7789256.stm Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Understatement of the Year?

| December 12, 2008

“This is a landlocked country. And its formal and informal economies would suffer. Within a week, it would bring the economy on its knees,” a senior US official said in Washington on condition of anonymity. If the world’s highest inflation rate, last estimated in July at 231 million percent but now believed to be much [...]

There Snow News

| December 3, 2008

Boing! Boing! Boing! Hello, here is the something o’clock news. England has come to a stand-still again due to the half inch of snow that has fallen in the last 24 hours! Heh? Am I missing something? Isn’t it coming to something when the weather makes the headlines? Now I admit, I do not like [...]

There is a God

| December 2, 2008

“Only one group is more miserable than the retailers: the bankers and investment bankers.” [see