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No thanks for Woolies Staff

admin | 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 [...]

Another Blow for the Small Man

admin | 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?

admin | 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 higher, [...]

There Snow News

admin | 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 [...]

There is a God

admin | December 2, 2008

“Only one group is more miserable than the retailers: the bankers and investment bankers.”
[see http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2008/12/winter_of_discontent.html]

Original post blogged on b2evolution.