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Re: Aussie rips offs
Originally Posted by bcworld
(Post 10548796)
I don't think the message is about quality. It's about 'local' jobs etc...buying unaustralian is traitorous regardless of how much you are being gouged. I'm not sure many people actually take any notice. Some claim to be all true blue but they're then down their local discount store buying Colgate from Indonesia or washing up liquid from the Philippines with English language stickers stuck on by an importer!
If people don't really give a flying **** about local jobs, then continuing to stick "Australian Made" on it just becomes code, as paulry says, for 'bend over and take it fool'. And anyway, you are supposed to sell the sizzle, not the sausage. So you should be selling 'fresh' or 'tailored' - not that some bogan can continue to work on a production line. |
Re: Aussie rips offs
Originally Posted by GarryP
(Post 10548791)
I'm trying to work out when 'Australian made' could ever have become synonymous with 'quality' in the aussie mind?
I mean, have they ever had a tradition, an expectation, that would say a product was of high quality because it was produced in Oz? German > engineering - yep, we know there is a connection (however much its not true anymore). But Australian > Rough and Ready - at least that's the association I get.Japan > cheap, high tech - or at least it was Even French > Cuisine - although most people would send a meal back if it had snails in it. So why would you advertise as Australian Made as a positive attribute? Give me New Zealand lamb over Australian any day.
Originally Posted by bcworld
(Post 10548796)
I don't think the message is about quality. It's about 'local' jobs etc...buying unaustralian is traitorous regardless of how much you are being gouged. I'm not sure many people actually take any notice. Some claim to be all true blue but they're then down their local discount store buying Colgate from Indonesia or washing up liquid from the Philippines with English language stickers stuck on by an importer!
I think the "buy Australian" thing has it's roots back into the 90's where there was a big push to do just that. When I first visited Aus in the late 90s everywhere you went there seemed to be the "Buy Australian" rallying cry. But that was when the prices for things weren't so high. Back then Aus produced excellent quality t-shirts, but haven't seen any since we've moved here. The rugged claim I think is a bit of the con because I haven't seen much to be rougher and tougher than anywhere else I have lived. Except the women that is - there are many here who are as tough as old boots. |
Re: Aussie rips offs
Just look at that idiot Dick Smith, he claims literally anything from overseas is inferior. Some believe him but I would like to think most people have a brain and see through his xenophobia and parochial rhetoric.
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Re: Aussie rips offs
Originally Posted by chris955
(Post 10548831)
Just look at that idiot Dick Smith, he claims literally anything from overseas is inferior. Some believe him but I would like to think most people have a brain and see through his xenophobia and parochial rhetoric.
There is a danger that with the big two continually cutting the cost of sourcing produce most farmers will go to the wall. Bad for Australia & bad for consumers. I expect to pay a fair price for fresh produce & I expect local growers to get a fair price. It irks that Coles & Woolies prosper while their primary producers go to the wall in droves. |
Re: Aussie rips offs
Originally Posted by paulry
(Post 10548815)
The rugged claim I think is a bit of the con because I haven't seen much to be rougher and tougher than anywhere else I have lived.
Originally Posted by paulry
(Post 10548815)
Except the women that is - there are many here who are as tough as old boots.
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Re: Aussie rips offs
Originally Posted by cresta57
(Post 10548841)
I don't think he's an idiot, he took on the duopoly of coles & woolies in order to keep Australian farmers on their land.
There is a danger that with the big two continually cutting the cost of sourcing produce most farmers will go to the wall. Bad for Australia & bad for consumers. I expect to pay a fair price for fresh produce & I expect local growers to get a fair price. It irks that Coles & Woolies prosper while their primary producers go to the wall in droves. |
Re: Aussie rips offs
Originally Posted by bcworld
(Post 10548796)
English language stickers stuck on by an importer!
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Re: Aussie rips offs
Originally Posted by cresta57
(Post 10548841)
I don't think he's an idiot, he took on the duopoly of coles & woolies in order to keep Australian farmers on their land.
There is a danger that with the big two continually cutting the cost of sourcing produce most farmers will go to the wall. Bad for Australia & bad for consumers. I expect to pay a fair price for fresh produce & I expect local growers to get a fair price. It irks that Coles & Woolies prosper while their primary producers go to the wall in droves. The attitude is always "yes, it's rotten - but you are unAustralian for complaining about it." |
Re: Aussie rips offs
Originally Posted by Wol
(Post 10548888)
I don't know how they've got the nerve to be "the fresh food people" - we keep getting fruit that's gone off inside, bananas that have to be thrown away, bread that is half stale when opened and so on. Last week I took back an apple that was brown inside, they refunded and gave me new ones - which were brown inside.
The attitude is always "yes, it's rotten - but you are unAustralian for complaining about it." I suspect they think it's not 'country'.....or they think that as you live in a country town you will make yourself look like a grumpy old git....and get people's backs up.... can they tell an apple is brown inside..? |
Re: Aussie rips offs
Originally Posted by ozzieeagle
(Post 10536950)
LOL.... I just phoned them, so interested was I in my own question.... Cancelled my own opticians appointment for tomorrow and am going to specsavers Brunswick.
They have the capacity to save me 200 bucks on the lenses alone.... plus I get a free pair. Their price for the 1.67 lenses in multi focals as above is 530 bucks. Although they are Pentax Lenses, which I'm fairly sure isn't as good as I have now.... although the name of the manufacture I have now escapes me. I do know I had two choices last time around and was told that the ones I have are more scratch resistant than the Pentax. I'm not going to argue with 200 bucks cheaper and a free pair though. even cheaper :) |
Re: Aussie rips offs
Originally Posted by GarryP
(Post 10548791)
I'm trying to work out when 'Australian made' could ever have become synonymous with 'quality' in the aussie mind?
I mean, have they ever had a tradition, an expectation, that would say a product was of high quality because it was produced in Oz? German > engineering - yep, we know there is a connection (however much its not true anymore). But Australian > Rough and Ready - at least that's the association I get.Japan > cheap, high tech - or at least it was Even French > Cuisine - although most people would send a meal back if it had snails in it. So why would you advertise as Australian Made as a positive attribute? Give me New Zealand lamb over Australian any day. You pay a premium for the cute factor. There are Aussie goods that were reasonable, some ride on equipment, garden stuff and it is still sold as being an option to Made In China.... |
Re: Aussie rips offs
Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack
(Post 10548915)
Did they say that?
I suspect they think it's not 'country'.....or they think that as you live in a country town you will make yourself look like a grumpy old git....and get people's backs up.... can they tell an apple is brown inside..? |
Re: Aussie rips offs
Originally Posted by Wol
(Post 10548934)
I don't follow your train of thought?
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Re: Aussie rips offs
Originally Posted by Grayling
(Post 10548800)
I just bought a digital cooking thermometer off Amazon....about half an hour ago.
On Amazon UK it cost me $69 delivered from the UK. On Amazon Australia the cost was $94 delivered from the UK Same thermometer..Guess which I ordered? How does that work??? |
Re: Aussie rips offs
Originally Posted by irishbloo
(Post 10548943)
I think you stick it in to the chicken and it tells you if its cooked or not.:D
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