Dick Smith

I used to go in there a lot. may have bumped shoulders with you sometime.. :)

they did a 'Dick Smith'. went out of electronic parts and into retail of hifi, tv's, antenna's, home security, car alarms, etc.,

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felix
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I learned why Dick got rich when I went to Japan in 1980 and found that I could buy the same stuff that Dicky was selling at one third the price retail. Even after expenses he must have been making close to 100% markup.

Reply to
keithr

I remember those, or at least the controversy around them.

Oh well, you could always kill yourself with one of those new-fangled hover boards instead :)

Reply to
Jeßus

Oh yes, of course.

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Jeßus

** No mention of Radio Despatch Service ?

The store was in George Street, near the Harris Street corner.

Narrow shop with a long counter and no self service - usually packed with customers on a Saturday morning.

The best new component supplier in Sydney throughout the 1970s.

Died a horrible death when they sacked the long time manager ( Geoff Wood ) and tried to remodel the store in the 1980s.

.... Phil

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Phil Allison

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Long after Woolies had taken over DSE, and Dick Smith the person had moved on to selling Australian made products like Ozemite, I was a bit surprised one day to see a few of his food items for sale in a DSE store - from memory it was in the York street Sydney store.

I assumed this was because Woolies got tired of sending people away empty handed when they arrived expecting to be able to buy those products there. I don't think they kept that up for very long though.

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Andy Wood

Petzl wrote

They never stopped doing that.

One of ours went bust a month before Dick Smith did.

Their prices were never anything to write home about.

No one does it that way.

JB HiFi who ate their lunch, dinner and breakfast don't do it like that.

Bullshit. Works fine for JB HiFi.

Reply to
Rod Speed

That isnt what makes an operation like that economically viable.

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Rod Speed

I know so.

Like hell they do.

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Rod Speed

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Do you save a lot per year doing that? I would have thought these days there would be minimal savings. Do you just enjoy going to certain places and buying in bulk?

Reply to
Robert

Except crap Telstra stores ....

Reply to
pedro

I do that for a couple of reasons. I live in a remote area, so I keep shopping trips to a minimum. I also mainly use spelt flour (an early form of wheat), which is expensive and even more expensive in small quantities from supermarkets or health food stores (I have a mild wheat intolerance and spelt seems to agree with me better than 'ordinary' wheat). It is grown locally and I can get it in bulk from one place in Launceston which sells nothing but flour.

Things like bacon I get from one particular farm that cures their own and is very high quality. I also get much of my beef there as well as it is as good as I've ever come across anywhere, at any price. I also usually leave there with lots of extra freebies, such as an extra kilo of bacon, some pumpkins, or whatever else they have an excess of :)

I'm not necessarily saving much money doing it that way, but I do at least get the best quality at prices basically equivalent to supermarket quality. The scotch fillet I buy for around $25/KG retails for $40 or more in Launceston delis, for example.

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Jeßus

pedro wrote

They don't do it that way either.

The banks do tho.

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Rod Speed

Some telstra stores have maitre d sometimes probably depends on the amount of flack they are getting from waiting customers because of not enough staff. but there are two sorts of these stores in shopping centres,a few telstra owned ones and the rest franchised Telstra being the worst for being kept waiting in my experience.

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F Murtz

Yeah, we only have the franchised ones here and the only time I have used one the waiting was pretty bad.

Mate of mine uses them quite a bit, must ask him.

I have run one to check on what someone I know claims was available and got a pretty quick and accurate answer. Didn't get as good a result with the Optus franchise operation with a question about what they were up to mobile towers wise, but that's a pretty pathetically inadequate sample.

None of them use a maitre d here. At least one of the banks does, I wouldn't go inside a bank more than about once in 10 years now.

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Rod Speed

The maitre d thing is not permanent, it happens when the customers get antsy, which in reality is self defeating because it takes one person away from doing the work,(they must have decided that it keeps customers happy)If this works, there is no accounting for sheeple.

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F Murtz

Can't say I have ever seen that with a Telstra shop, but then I don't go in them that often at all.

I did see in the ComBank, and it was very quiet at the time.

True unless they use some ape who wouldn't normally have anything to do with the customers.

Bet it doesn't.

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Rod Speed

They do, actually. You need to get out more. The world is bigger than your backyard.

Got one right.

Reply to
pedro

None of ours do.

Got them both right.

Reply to
Rod Speed

If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong

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pedro

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