The Last to Post-2nd Edition - Part 3

[skiingfast]

What does that mean? Trust the Murphy?

I'm simply SHOWING you Yellowtail is sold here...

Because he may not be giving you the best.

 

[skiingfast]

What does that mean? Trust the Murphy?

I'm simply SHOWING you Yellowtail is sold here...

Well you other link didn't go to yellowtail, and it's the one I looked at, so I look at a few other pags to see what I recognized.

 

[queenie82]

This is a BIG liquor store in Oz.

Yellowtail as sold there

Yellowtail

Well you other link didn't go to yellowtail, and it's the one I looked at, so I look at a few other pags to see what I recognized.

The link is in the post above

Goes directly to where they advertise selling Yellowtail

 

[skiingfast]

The link is in the post above

Goes directly to where they advertise selling Yellowtail

Regardless I don't think Murphy is selling in the best interest to its customers.

 

[skiingfast]

The witching hour is upon us.

 

[skiingfast]

By which I meant the Twilight hour.

 

[PrincessInOz]

It had a selection of foreign to Oz wines that are not easy to find here. I'm not sure I trust the Murphy.

Murphy might have always been right....according to his laws......and this Murphy might be selling in the best interest of Dan.....but he wasn't LAST.


is LTP

 

[PrincessInOz]

Regardless I don't think Murphy is selling in the best interest to its customers.

Are you referring to the cost of goods sold?


If so......Welcome to Australian retail pricing...where everything has at least a 400% mark-up. Why do you think the Aussies race on overseas and shop? Even at full retail prices, retail shopping in the US is soooo much cheaper. The comparison....Calvin Klein Jeans are about US$60......they sell for AUD$180 here....and we get US$105 for every AU$100 exchange at the moment. Why wouldn't we run over to the States and pick up 3 pairs of CK Jeans?


Just remember that minimum wage in the US is about $8 - $9?? an hour; and minimum wage in Australia is about $16 - $19 an hour. Figures came out this week....the average yearly income for an Australian is around $65K now. This includes all the blue collar, white collar, men, women, children, part-time, full-time, mining industry etc workers.

(Might be of interest to you as we'd been chatting about the mining industry....the same article said that the average yearly income for the mining industry in Australia was $105K. That's across the whole industry sector!!! )

 

[franandaj]

All this monetary talk makes my brain hurt, so I'll just be last!

 

[usnuzuloose]

Just checking in. Last

 

[franandaj]

How's the trial?

 

[skiingfast]

Are you referring to the cost of goods sold?


If so......Welcome to Australian retail pricing...where everything has at least a 400% mark-up. Why do you think the Aussies race on overseas and shop? Even at full retail prices, retail shopping in the US is soooo much cheaper. The comparison....Calvin Klein Jeans are about US$60......they sell for AUD$180 here....and we get US$105 for every AU$100 exchange at the moment. Why wouldn't we run over to the States and pick up 3 pairs of CK Jeans?


Just remember that minimum wage in the US is about $8 - $9?? an hour; and minimum wage in Australia is about $16 - $19 an hour. Figures came out this week....the average yearly income for an Australian is around $65K now. This includes all the blue collar, white collar, men, women, children, part-time, full-time, mining industry etc workers.

(Might be of interest to you as we'd been chatting about the mining industry....the same article said that the average yearly income for the mining industry in Australia was $105K. That's across the whole industry sector!!! )

Mainly I meant that for many the case price was not a multiple of the single bottle price. And that the wines Murphy was selling are not the best.

It seems to me that mining should have a high price for wages. It's mostly employs skill trained workers like mechanics and machine operators to move and sort the dirt, and engineers to oversee the operations.

I had a friend who worked a couple days a week driving dump trucks at a coal mine. $35 an hour and this was probably 15 years ago when mimnimum wage was under $5. The rest of the time he was going to a commmunity college. I never understood why, he could of made more working ten years hauling coal than he would the rest of his life. He should of been taking business classes.

 

[Good Ol Gal]

last to post!

 

[skiingfast]

If so......Welcome to Australian retail pricing...where everything has at least a 400% mark-up. Why do you think the Aussies race on overseas and shop? Even at full retail prices, retail shopping in the US is soooo much cheaper. The comparison....Calvin Klein Jeans are about US$60......they sell for AUD$180 here....and we get US$105 for every AU$100 exchange at the moment. Why wouldn't we run over to the States and pick up 3 pairs of CK Jeans?

Why is the markup so high? Is it like that for foods as well? How about energy. Isn't electricity produced from oz fuel?

Traditionally clothing is cheap in the US because it was produced locally. But prices have been held down even while textile production was exported. It's strange. Oz is closer to wear most of my clothes come from.

 

[franandaj]

Last!

 

[skiingfast]

Now it's time for my 15 minutes of Last.

 

[franandaj]

You got 37 minutes

 

[PrincessInOz]

I've got 60 seconds before I run out the door!

last to post!

How are you doing?

Why is the markup so high? Is it like that for foods as well? How about energy. Isn't electricity produced from oz fuel?

Traditionally clothing is cheap in the US because it was produced locally. But prices have been held down even while textile production was exported. It's strange. Oz is closer to wear most of my clothes come from.

Yes, electricity is produced from oz fuel. We have a quarryful of brown coal in our backyard....enough for the next 200 years; if it doesn't pollute the environment first and globally warm it up!

Cost of Living is higher here in general, mostly in proportion with the salaries earned.
But really, it is also about the population. Australia is up to about 23 million people. There are still more people living on Manhattan Island than in Australia. And Australia is roughly the size of the US.

 

[skiingfast]

Cost of Living is higher here in general, mostly in proportion with the salaries earned.
But really, it is also about the population. Australia is up to about 23 million people. There are still more people living on Manhattan Island than in Australia. And Australia is roughly the size of the US.

Aren't 90% of those 23 milllion(that is a lot of people to me, I'm not sure there are 23M people within 750 miles(1200Km) from me, in about 5 cities? Don't the cities get better pricing?

 

[usnuzuloose]

How's the trial?

It was a day of the defense being in alot of trouble over and over and over.





Did I say over?