The idea of a retail downturn is Australia is false. It is Australian brands that are on the way down because of their lousy value proposition. Meanwhile, foreign companies like Costco are making a killing with great pricing, great service, or sometimes both.
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Last year, 330 fines of $293 each were issued to people train surfing in Victoria.
That’s just those who got caught. Proof positive that more people are stupid than you might think.
In New Zealand, where a local version of Marmite is more popular than Aussie Vegemite, a crisis dubbed “Marmaggedon” unfolded after the country’s only factory closed late last year for nine months to repair damage caused by an earthquake in Christchurch. New Zealand food company Sanitarium asked consumers to restrict their use of Marmite until production resumes in July, and Prime Minister John Key said he had been forced to ration his use of the spread. A jar of the so-called “black gold” sold at a charity online auction for 2,115 New Zealand dollars (US$1,674).
My first blog post for someone else! Enjoy.
Things I learned today in hospital: code grey and code black.
McGill students, occupying the sixth floor of a building, try to lower a bucket, have it filled with food and then raise it.
But a subsequent tweet noted: “When the bucket was about 2/3 of the way down, a security guard reached out of a window to CUT OUR ROPE.”
So funny.
Spoiler alert: it seems so.
“There would have been a day when we would have been the Greece of today,” recalled then-prime minister Jean Chretien, a Liberal who ended up chopping cherished social programs in one of the most dramatic fiscal turnarounds ever.
“I knew we were in a bind and we had to do something,” Chretien, 77, told Reuters in a rare interview.
I’ll never forget Chretien and his awesome accent from my days in Canada.
