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Germany versus Britain - shocking statistics
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostYou were at the start of the thread.Comment
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I remember the great egg race being on TV and thinking "I would really like to do engineering", these days kids are growing up with the apprentice and "buy and sell tulipe for a profit" attitudes.
Makes me glum.Comment
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Random question to those who work in the eurozone... are their local equivalents of HMV, Jessops, Blockbuster (though I thought BB was international) going down the tubes too? Are their city centres ending up as alternating fast-food places and £1 shops with the odd payday-loan/pawn shop?Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostRandom question to those who work in the eurozone... are their local equivalents of HMV, Jessops, Blockbuster (though I thought BB was international) going down the tubes too? Are their city centres ending up as alternating fast-food places and £1 shops with the odd payday-loan/pawn shop?
Nope. In fact they're building one new shopping centre after the other. Don't think I've ever spotted a payday-loan shop. Increasing number of 1-EUR shops lately though. Media/Technology chains like Media Markt and Saturn still seem to do very well (judging by how busy they are on a day-to-day basis.
For Media Markt this bit of info may be interesting in this context:
"Every store is 10% owned by the store manager. Store managers have discretion as to which products to stock, range, pricing, personnel and material costs."
In the past I've done remarkably well at negotiating the price of laptops down below online retail competition prices.Last edited by formant; 17 January 2013, 19:11.Comment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostRandom question to those who work in the eurozone... are their local equivalents of HMV, Jessops, Blockbuster (though I thought BB was international) going down the tubes too? Are their city centres ending up as alternating fast-food places and £1 shops with the odd payday-loan/pawn shop?Comment
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Germany versus Britain - shocking statistics
Berlin is my favourite city, never got a sniff of a role there tho! My missus worked at Otis near Tegel...
Gonna watch 'In wieter ferne, so nah!' when I get back to the Hotel! Als das kind kind war....
Great movies!Comment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostRandom question to those who work in the eurozone... are their local equivalents of HMV, Jessops, Blockbuster (though I thought BB was international) going down the tubes too? Are their city centres ending up as alternating fast-food places and £1 shops with the odd payday-loan/pawn shop?
I put it down to a couple of factors. They are quite conservative and prefer physical shops to online, they also value tradition and that things are "made in Germany" and seem to prefer quality to lowest possible price so are less inclined to buy cheap tat made in china to the point that it's hard to even find it in the shops. The specialist shops generally employ people with expertise rather than minimum wagers, and they maintain a good range of physical stock so you can go in, get your hands on something and play with it and take it home that day. The consumers themselves aren't paying as much as a %age of income for housing and generally avoid debt so don't have to service it, which means they have more disposable income, and they seem marginally less inclined to waste it on tat.
Some of the bigger department stores did get into trouble when I was there though.
Waitrose edges it in the supermarket stakes but apart from that, clothing and English language books I'd say that the shops in Munich were better than we have in London.Last edited by doodab; 17 January 2013, 19:31.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Originally posted by stek View PostBerlin is my favourite city, never got a sniff of a role there tho!Comment
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