How the disabled are ripped off

On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:40:48 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

I am rather bored with this now, but I have been involved with small
business retail all my life and I can tell you that 1,000% mark-ups are
never necessary. This is 'charging what you can get away with', also
known as 'charging what the market will stand'. It is the exploiting of
a local monopoly made possible indirectly by the customers' disability
and age.

Yeah right, that's why small businesses go bankrupt easily.

No, that's usually because of changing patterns of trade, out of town
supermarkets, ridiculous parking restrictions used as a means of getting
revenue, refusal of older proprietors to change with the times,
outrageous rate demands, etc.

If you sell less stuff, you need to make more profit on each item. I think your problem is that you think everyone is out to get you. Why do disabled people think this way? From what I've seen most folk go out of their way to help you lot.

--
Polynesia -- memory loss in parrots.

charles wrote:

same with the phrase "near miss" which ia actually a near hit - but a
complete miss.


As my Irish friend used to cry out triumphantly when he didn't have a
collision, despite being very drunk, "Missed it entoirely!"

Bill

Jim Thomas wrote:

You don't throw yourself at the ground.

I can tell you that you do if you are stood on a ridge and you hear a
whooshing sound so you look round and a hang glider is just about to hit
you.

Bill

On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:43:31 +0100, Jim Thomas wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:10:04 +0100, Jim Thomas wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
news On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 17:31:40 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article , ARW
wrote:
"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
news On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 21:02:23 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

A good service the disabled should be doing for the whole country
is
getting rid of speedbumps. They're illegally discriminating
against
the disabled. My Aunt has severe spine problems and can't go over
them at any speed.

Yes I know someone who has to take a long route to her mother's
because of that.

In Rotherham a common way to induce a birth is for the woman to
stand
up in her boyfriend's van whilst he roars around the roadhump
strewn
streets. This has been known to make the baby plop out.

(That was a joke by the way)

What annoys me is the amount of money my council spends redoing
streets
with potholes, which are a tenth of the size of the speedbumps. Why
do they bother?

Speed bumps? What a stupid name. They cause you to slow down.

same with the phrase "near miss" which ia actually a near hit - but a
complete miss.

Agreed, that always makes me laugh. Explaining the above doesn't seem
to
help when I dodge traffic at high speed and frighten the passenger
though.

"The knack to flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and
miss."

You don't throw yourself at the ground.

Why not?

Because it works much better to do it the right way.

It's only carrier landings where the pilot does anything
like throw the plane at the ground and they don't miss,
they hit it where they need to hit it instead.

You might be thrown at the ground unintentionally. You need to be able to recover from a plummet.

--
If you eat a judge's uniform you might contract a lawsuit.

On 26/09/2015 20:21, Bill Wright wrote:

Yes, true. If there weren't half a million foreigners coming in every
year house prices would be lower.

And if there weren't a whole lot of Polish/Lithuanian
builders/electricians/plumbers?

Andy

In article , Tough Guy no. 1265
wrote:
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:40:48 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

I am rather bored with this now, but I have been involved with small
business retail all my life and I can tell you that 1,000% mark-ups
are never necessary. This is 'charging what you can get away with',
also known as 'charging what the market will stand'. It is the
exploiting of a local monopoly made possible indirectly by the
customers' disability and age.

Yeah right, that's why small businesses go bankrupt easily.

No, that's usually because of changing patterns of trade, out of town
supermarkets, ridiculous parking restrictions used as a means of
getting revenue, refusal of older proprietors to change with the times,
outrageous rate demands, etc.

If you sell less stuff, you need to make more profit on each item. I
think your problem is that you think everyone is out to get you. Why do
disabled people think this way? From what I've seen most folk go out of
their way to help you lot.

Bill is NOT disabled, but Hil is.

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Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

No, that's usually because of changing patterns of trade, out of town
supermarkets, ridiculous parking restrictions used as a means of getting
revenue, refusal of older proprietors to change with the times,
outrageous rate demands, etc.

If you sell less stuff, you need to make more profit on each item.
No, that is known as the spiral of death. What you need to do is
1. Try to increase sales by efficient advertising, promotions, events, etc
2. Make the organisation more efficient by:
3. Finding ways to economise
4. Reducing the number of staff
5. Moving to smaller premises more suited for the smaller volume of trade.
6. Look for wholesale bargains and alternative sources of goods.
7. Pay yourself less.

think your problem is that you think everyone is out to get you. Why do
disabled people think this way? From what I've seen most folk go out of
their way to help you lot.
Well to be honest I wasn't bad tempered and mardy like this at first.
After I lost the first leg I just thought it was bad luck. After the
second one I thought it was very bad luck. But after I lost both arms
within a fortnight I did start to think I was getting a rough deal. Then
I started with the gangrene and had to have my ears, nose, penis and
scrotum removed. I was OK for a while after that, on a plateau so to
speak, but then I developed chincough in the buttocks so they had to
come off. Then I got such bad ulcers inside I had to have my stomach and
intestines removed. I'll admit all this has left me a bit bitter and
twisted. But you're right, most folk do go out of their way to help the
disabled. Only the other day a bloke rolled me all the way from my front
door to the Asda.

Bill

On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 21:17:35 +0100, charles wrote:

In article , Tough Guy no. 1265
wrote:
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:40:48 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

I am rather bored with this now, but I have been involved with small
business retail all my life and I can tell you that 1,000% mark-ups
are never necessary. This is 'charging what you can get away with',
also known as 'charging what the market will stand'. It is the
exploiting of a local monopoly made possible indirectly by the
customers' disability and age.

Yeah right, that's why small businesses go bankrupt easily.

No, that's usually because of changing patterns of trade, out of town
supermarkets, ridiculous parking restrictions used as a means of
getting revenue, refusal of older proprietors to change with the times,
outrageous rate demands, etc.

If you sell less stuff, you need to make more profit on each item. I
think your problem is that you think everyone is out to get you. Why do
disabled people think this way? From what I've seen most folk go out of
their way to help you lot.

Bill is NOT disabled, but Hil is.

Bill was the one that moaned about the cost.

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On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 21:18:27 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

No, that's usually because of changing patterns of trade, out of town
supermarkets, ridiculous parking restrictions used as a means of getting
revenue, refusal of older proprietors to change with the times,
outrageous rate demands, etc.

If you sell less stuff, you need to make more profit on each item.
No, that is known as the spiral of death. What you need to do is
1. Try to increase sales by efficient advertising, promotions, events, etc
2. Make the organisation more efficient by:
3. Finding ways to economise
4. Reducing the number of staff
5. Moving to smaller premises more suited for the smaller volume of trade.
6. Look for wholesale bargains and alternative sources of goods.
7. Pay yourself less.

You can't make a corner shop into a multinational supermarket.

think your problem is that you think everyone is out to get you. Why do
disabled people think this way? From what I've seen most folk go out of
their way to help you lot.
Well to be honest I wasn't bad tempered and mardy like this at first.
After I lost the first leg I just thought it was bad luck. After the
second one I thought it was very bad luck. But after I lost both arms
within a fortnight I did start to think I was getting a rough deal. Then
I started with the gangrene and had to have my ears, nose, penis and
scrotum removed. I was OK for a while after that, on a plateau so to
speak, but then I developed chincough in the buttocks so they had to
come off. Then I got such bad ulcers inside I had to have my stomach and
intestines removed. I'll admit all this has left me a bit bitter and
twisted. But you're right, most folk do go out of their way to help the
disabled. Only the other day a bloke rolled me all the way from my front
door to the Asda.

Are you watching Monty Python?

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Why do men die before their wives? They want to.

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

I am rather bored with this now, but I have been involved with small
business retail all my life and I can tell you that 1,000% mark-ups are
never necessary. This is 'charging what you can get away with', also
known as 'charging what the market will stand'. It is the exploiting of
a local monopoly made possible indirectly by the customers' disability
and age.

Yeah right, that's why small businesses go bankrupt easily.

No, that's usually because of changing patterns of trade, out of town
supermarkets, ridiculous parking restrictions used as a means of getting
revenue, refusal of older proprietors to change with the times, outrageous
rate demands, etc.

The real reason small businesses go bankrupt easily is because
there are more trying to make a go of it than the market can
support. So the worst of them go bust.