realmadrid25

you must be a little slow if you cant get the rubber bands off the bag. there is a certain spot where you just pull and it comes right off. very simple for even a child.

op are you drunk?

lol this is a horrible deal but farang will be lining up to participate.

blah blah blah just think how lucky you old guys are that there are third world nations where you can flex your financial superiority. young girls wouldn't spit on you if you were on fire in your home country... so stop bitching and moaning.

An additional Family Mart, V Shop, and/or Fresh Mart doesn't increase the volume of people in the area either, it just equally (at best) divides the total foot traffic + revenue between all shops. Yes, often there is enough traffic for all to live well as you say.

This is close now: they don't divide total traffic. If that was the case, whoever sets the foot first would guard with their life the rest of the pavement.

What they really split is otherwise lost traffic as people don't want to queue 15 min to pay a bill or get a pack of something in a crowded shop, quite likely if there is only 1.

And that "lost " traffic is not bottomless - they know how far they can go and how many shops in vicinity can be healthy.

yes, but this only maximizes profits for the franchiser which then minimizes profits for each individual franchisee. you are dreaming if you think there is no lost traffic to the original store. the way it usually works is, once you hit a certain number they let another shop open close by.

It's important to note that there is no proximity rule in the their franchise terms and if extremely successful, there's nothing to stop them from opening up a CP owned branch nearby to compete with your franchised location. Given, it's usually not blatant like next door or across the street, but a few blocks over is considered fair play in their book.

In retail industry, opening a shop next door to the existing 2-3 shops is called "clustering" and usually means everybody benefits from that. Not hard to understand why: crowd and frustration in a single shop would make customers defer their purchase until they are somewhere with more choice and speadier service.

In my neighbourhood in Tokyo I have 7-11, Family Mart, Sunkist and Lawson not exactly next to each other but along 70-80 m strip of the same side of the road. Whenever I can I defer my purchasing until I am in that area.

if people know there are 5 furniture stores next door to each other, they will go shop there. you really think clustering applies to 711's? so people wake up and say "lets go to that intersection with the 4 7/11's to do our 7/11 shopping???

they wouldn't be franchising if they didn't make more money that way than opening the new business by themselves. this should be common sense.

nothing sadder than seeing a middle aged farang try to explain to a thai girl in broken english that he is single and thinks she is pretty.

jet blue - an ounce over and its $20.

Define "rich"

each person gets to define it for themselves. for me, its getting more interest a year than i spend a year.

There are some middle class and poor children that are spoiled too

no. most of the thai kids i see are the complete opposite of spoiled. have taken out 22 year olds with an 8pm curfew and everyday see kids working in parents business. i cant remember a single luek krung female i took home who cooked me breakfast in the morning or washed my laundry. most probably dont even know how to do laundry.

my only frame of reference to new money and old money was the lady with the weird hat on the titanic. oh for shame, new money tries too much. get me another scotch. etc etc etc. i probably slept with your old money daughter so what is the difference anyways? btw, it does not even take much to be rich in thailand. so just assume that i have whatever amount of money does not make you uncomfortable and will not make you question the size of your male organ etc etc

oh god its the old guy who doesn't live in thailand but spends 4 hours a day on thai visa complaining about thailand.

transsexual prostitutes and child sex slaves.

ok, well i could have posed this as a question instead of a statement:

"You are probably considered rich in Thailand and will have rich children. Most rich children are spoiled brats. Are your kids (going to be) spoiled brats?"

To which I am sure 99.9999% of the responses would have been "Of course not, my kids are the complete opposite of brats. They are the most amazing kids on the planet, blah blah blah". Its like asking people if they are attractive or funny or if people like them, everyone says "yes".

So now that we have established that nobody on ThaiVisa has bratty kids, lets discuss what you did to make sure your kids didn't turn into brats. I think its a pretty hard task to pull off in LOS, especially when you consider that your lueks will have it beaten into their head how attractive they are from a very early age. In my experience, the leuk-krungs I know who have lived here all their life are way less interesting, more likely to be jerks/selfish/bratty than those who grew up abroad. Again, obviously these are not, nor will be, anyone on Thai Visa's children.

Also, as someone who grew up not rich, I had inspiration to succeed and I am now rich. So how do you make sure that your children also have the motivation to work hard for the big house and not expect that you will just give it to them? Do you tell this to them often? They will know if you are bluffing, right?

taxi fare everywhere in bangkok is reasonable. lol.

looked around a few places and might have missed it. didnt want to attempt to explain what i wanted to an employee cause i think that would have been fruitless.

let me guess, if i go to mbk right now i can buy all the pirated stuff i want.

i am not sure if the one you guys are mentioning is the same one i am looking for. i actually found it today at emporium imported from japan. the one i am looking for is served in korean bbq as a dipping sauce used for meat.

where do i get a nice piece of FRESH bread to try your other sausages John?

btw, i was not really doubting that English and Germans make good sausage, just that the stuff sold in thailand is BAD. but looks like John is taking care of that.

brand? i could not find it.

i tried the breakfast sausage. 8/10. Well done!

"A growing number of economists believe the country is on the brink of a recession or in one already, dragged down by all the problems in housing, credit and financial markets. Now 56 percent of the economists think the economy has started or will enter a recession this year. That's up from 45 percent in a survey in February. If there is a recession, it probably will be short and shallow, economists said."

the free market, and i mean those who make future bets on it, have it around 30%

i didn't say the housing market recovered, i said the us economy and fears of a recession have recovered. the nasdaq is up about 10% since that point...

there are local lobsters?