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decca60

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  1. 5 hours ago, HaoleBoy said:

    I hear the vaccination rate is at 90% in Bangkok now ... but what is the double vaccination rate?  They don't state that much.

     

    Will the French be allowed to go into restaurants?  Didn't they get the Johnson&Johnson vaccine (only 1 jab)?  The rules will get sticky going forward ...

    Yes Sir, the french people on J&J are considered fully vaccinated and have the green tag available on their phone. I know that while I'm french jabbed with J&J and and I got the Thai certificate ...so see you at the restaurant, I invite you for a beer.....

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  2. talking about intelligent way of trying to refrain the propagation in BKK by closing restaurants. I met this morning a friend of mine who owns a restaurant in Pattaya. He told me that over the last week end he had one table with 15 customers and the day after one table of 11, all coming specially by rented vans from BKK to have dinner in Pattaya..... Then the Chonburi governor is surprised to see the numbers going up in this province.... Nuts

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  3. 21 hours ago, sapson said:

     

     

    Really good to see the Thai government is an equal opportunities employer!

     

    If you clearly have severe mental health issues you are more than welcome in a ministerial position.

     

    You're absolutely right. It's the number one skill of the job description they use for recruitment. BTW you also have to be a general something which also includes the criteria number one

  4. On 6/26/2021 at 5:27 AM, bkk6060 said:

    Argentina:  Good food, wine, and sexy girls.

     I just think you have never been living in Argentina. I did for 8 years in Cordoba province. Never again..... specially now... Covid management is a total fiasco, high criminality, interprovincial travelling prohibited and more than 40% inflation. Good food, yes if you're not fed up with asado empanadas milanesas and hamburgesas everywhere. Good wines, yes some are but at ridiculous prices, and the sexy girls .... yes from time to time.... try to find fresh (non frozen) fish or sea food in Cordoba.... good luck. For the rest, except the jesuitic story, the Che museum in Alta Gracia ( just worthless) you will enjoy the corn fields and the desertic Sierras. And if you're not physically assaulted consider yourself as a lucky man. 

     

    Paraguay is a nice country I prefer Asuncion 10 times to 1 to Buenos Aires..  suerte

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  5. few explainations for the price rise.

    * Basic pork meet prices went up due to the swine fever. Higher demand and lower offer = price up

    * Shipping costs, specially fresh goods in refrigerated containers have increased also due to lower traffic (Covis stuff)

    * Covid hyiene requirements in french factories also increased production costs. Not only meat based products. Also due to Covid situation, factories productivity is down so higher production costs

    * Lower demand of these products in Thailand means smaller ordered and by consequence higher purchase prices.

    * More products to get rid of due to shelf life and less sales = additional costs to re-introduce into marked prices.

    * Casino's business isn't at it's best right now Would be curious to look at prices evolution in their french stores.

    These are the objective reasons of price increase

     

    Now there are some other factors to take in consideration :

    A positive one should be the strong baht which should help at least keeping prices stable BUT

    * Less competition and maybe price agreements, never go down

    * Much less turnover in stores so margin increases to protect profit as much as possible. The famous thai sales down prices up

    * As somebody suggested, we don't know about import duties and maybe end of a special agreement

    * When you look at shelves management, I"m not sure the product flow is correctly optimized . More out of stock means  additional costs.

    To be entirely honest, although I'm french and love the traditional charcuterie, eating these industial products does't really motivate me

     With all the fresh products you find in Thailand and a bit of willpower and efforts, I can easily prepare home made french meals at reasonable costs Bug C can die tomorrow I won't attend fhe funerals...... But I understand some pelple can love these products and buy them..... at the cost they can afford...

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