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2 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

An interesting US connection.  Its not the US government, but a US foundation....a liberal one at that. 

If you read your own quote, the Gates foundation provided financial backing in 2015 and 2018 for Malaria and Influenza research. 

4 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Actually, the US has also put a domestic airline travel on the table for consideration. I guess by EnglishOak's lights, that means the USA is about to fall apart, too.

No, I guess by now he must realize what fool he made of himself by posting such nonsense. Pretty much the whole world is trying to fight a virus and all he can think of is spreading his Brexiteer hatred. 

12 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:

Good luck selling that.

Good luck finding anyone not buying it when the whole world has seen what pathological liars The Chaos Family are. 

Amazing people still talk about Brexit given the Corona pandemic. This (and many other issues) will be gone from any agenda for a very long time, and the UK and the EU might have much worse things to solve than who gets to fish in what waters. 

A good time to buy cheap. I will wait a bit though — as long as The Chaos Family is fiddling with things, prices will fall even further. 

16 minutes ago, J Town said:

That won't be Biden. As much as I sincerely hope I'm wrong, I see Trump putting Joe down like "Old Yeller."

It’s more likely he and the other gangsters around him will abuse Corona to keep him in power, like canceling the election or declaring it void. 

23 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I thought, the White House issued a letter/statement by Trump's government doctor stating the result.

Since the only thing this chaos administration has a proven track record in is lying and gaslighting, it’s understandable that people don’t trust such statement. Even if they weren’t pathological liars they wouldn’t tell people because of fear it could cause more panic. So this statement is more or less useless.

11 minutes ago, alanrchase said:

A clip that says it all.

Me? Me? Maybe the administration did something, I don't know what this administration is doing, maybe we can ask someone. 

 

If it wasn’t so sad, you could laugh about how he’s making a fool of himself in front of the world. Like a scene from The Office. Every youth soccer team captain shows more leadership qualities and authority than this chaos president.

30 minutes ago, Skallywag said:

To be fair, I dont think any president is ever prepared for a pandemic. 

And it gets even worse when you don’t even have a leader but The Chaos Family on the top. 

A pandemic is bad enough, but with the Chaos Family in charge you can only pray for all Americans. 

6 hours ago, LivinLOS said:

Nice MSM puff piece to keep the panic low.. 

If you though the role of the press is to create a panic you were probably confusing it with the conspiracy theory blogs you’re reading.  

56 minutes ago, christophe75 said:

 

Voilà. But do not forget, it's just a flu, and it kills only very old people full of conditions [complete the list with all the BS of lalaland brigade] etc.
 

It seems the only “BS” is the “it kills only very old people full of conditions” made up by you. 

4 minutes ago, colinneil said:

This news report cannot be true, Ole Prayut said they had it completely under control.

So either Prayut is telling porkies or the disease control department are.

I don’t see how this news report shows that anyone “is telling porkies”. 

18 minutes ago, CGW said:

Actually yes, outside the bigger cities there is little difference between the two.

Good to know. I rarely go to either one, and even less so upcountry. I always thought Tops is more upscale and higher price points than Tesco. 

54 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

Actually Tops is a direct competitor (and the only viable option) to Tesco Delivery Service (which is likely the future).  Yes Tops is more of a mall supermarket than stand alone but if both are same owner there will not be any competition.  Big C is not a viable option for daily shopping in my opinion.

Same ownership in itself doesn’t cause antitrust issues or reduces competition, the question is whether or to what extent someone dominates a specific market. Of course, it would be up to the regulator to define what markets the players play in, and it’s not necessarily straightforward to define a market. If you define the market as buying groceries and fresh food, then they are all direct competitors in the same market. If you consider customer segment and formats then it’s a different picture. 
 

I don’t see Tops and Tesco playing in the same market; I see Tops as more upscale than Tesco. Do you see your typical Tesco customer buying groceries in a Tops market? 

22 hours ago, Susco said:

 

I'm not a native English speaker, but to me both quotes seem to have opposite meanings, where the first to me means starting bids at 9 Billion, and the second maximum value could be 9 Billion.

 

Anyone can explain?

Tesco (or someone else) apparently (according to this article) says the value of their business here is 9 billion. That doesn’t mean you have to buy it for that price. It’s a bidding process and Tesco asks the three bidders to make a bid until a certain deadline. It’s up to the bidders what they wanna bid; it can be more or less than the 9 billion that Tesco (or whoever) said the business is worth.

22 hours ago, scorecard said:

And I seriously hope that the Thai regulatory authority involved will not allow the sale to any of these bidders so that we don't see a further monopoly scenario.  

Central doesn’t have much footprint in convenience stores and supermarkets. And their Tops and gourmet markets are a different segment. Don’t see much antitrust issues there. 
 

For CP and BJC, the regulator might demand splitting up the business. I.e. keep the bits that don’t cause antitrust issues and sell the rest. So we might even see Tesco’s operations being split up among different buyers, like CP taking the hypermarket stores where it doesn’t have a footprint and giving BJC the convenience stores and supermarkets where BJC is small. 
 

And, of course, the new antitrust laws only exist for a year or so, and no one knows yet how strictly the regulator will enforce them. Afair there wasn’t a big deal like this yet since the new laws came into effect. 

10 minutes ago, khunken said:

It would make sense for the new owners of Tesco to continue selling any Tesco own-brand that has customer demand.

Either this or they just continue the same product under their own brand if there’s demand. That’s how private label works — someone produces it and you put your label on it, and quite often the exactly same product can be found under different labels (and at  completely different price points) in the same shelf.