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Go into a Coles/Woolworths store or any store and be greeted by a sales person with "Can I help you mate", this is some young sales person talking to a mature person.
"Sorry, you are not my mate, you may be if you do me a good deal, but not until"
How about "Good morning, sir or madam can I be of assistance" not likely, a lot of sales staff in Australia are given piecemeal customer relations training.
Or walk up to one and say "excuse me where can I find so and so"
"I'm not sure, try over there", instead of "Sorry but I'm not sure, I will find out for you"
Ok it's not indicative of all sales staff but I bet you can all site occassions when this has happened to you
If Australian retailers employed and trained staff to know a) what they are selling and b) where the products are in the store and to provide a level of service commensurate with the exorbitant prices they charge then maybe people would buy less overseas.
Go into any retailer in Japan and see what service is all about !!!!
Further examples of Australian consurmer rip offs
Woolworths sell loose potatoes for $3 a kg, but a bag of 4kg you can buy for $4 thats a $1 a kg, now it's more economical to buy 4kg but if your a 2 person family the spuds will turn before you get to the end of the bag (food wastage). So these marketing ploys are adding to greenhouse waste and affect the environment.
2 loafs of bread for $6 but if you buy 1 it's $5 dollars go figure.
A pair of jocks (bonds) $20 when made in Australia still $20 now made China.
Contact lens purchased for 1/2 to a 1/3 the price of buying them through your local Optometrist.
These are all examples that lead to the rich getting richer at our expense and when people wake up and started realising they could be cheaper elsewhere/online the reatailers bauk.
Someone please kick sand in their face, they (the rich) may wake up to the fact they owe us for what/where they are not the other way around.
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