surayu
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According to this thread you will not get it there, have a look at the alternative on that list
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Years ago i remember that i came across something that would look like a chopper made in China, it was new and i believe the place i saw it was a Big C in BKK, price tag 39.000.
It would probably fell apart not too long after the purchase date, so, try to find someone that can tell you more about it...
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Not really my kind of stuff but browsing for new topics i noticed that this thread had zero replies, so, here i am
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And as for the standard of quality of food sold in the markets, it must be good stuff, I mean, 4000 flies can`t be wrong.
i agree!Even the many dogs wandering around the stalls knows their stuff, real gourmets i would say
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I think the problem is that many find it difficult to shake off their old Western ways of life where supermarket shopping in the norm.
Personally, i am not afraid of changes, so, if a better option came up to the supermarkets, i am ready for it.
It's not a lazyness to give up old habits that brings me there, more likely the ambience, the airconditioning plays a big part too in that, plus a cleaner and safer environment while you shop, the availability of products that are nowhere else to find nearby and the convenience of having other suitables places around as the food courts, KFC, etc.
I don't buy western food out of a nostalgic feeling, more because of my own taste in food
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No the expiration date does not mean much
Are you suggesting that all those different countries governamental health and safety organizations, just don't know what they are talking about when they claim that expired food should not be eaten?
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And after reading all these reports, will this put off most of you from shopping at the big stores?
that's not the point Beetlejuice, we are sharing knowlegde here, and with this we are becoming aware of something that maybe slipped out of our control, maybe helped out from the fact that many people would expect a big company to behave on a different way than the last arrived food's cart on the foothpath.If this problem it's linked to the bottom of the working chain rather than a decision coming from the very top, it's still to be established.
I am glad others are coming up with even more stories of businesses behaving badly, i might have not noticed those issues without some little help or maybe just not have come across them, so, thanks for sharing!
We should be put in a situation to make decision based on true information and not be cheated out just to extract some more cash from our pockets, as before or later the truth will came out and be counterproductive
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Just now on the Discovery Channel were broadcasting the new TAT advertisement, "Come to Play!" and "Amazing Thailand !" with a good part of the video focusing just on the jetsky and banana boats, how disgusting!!!
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Sorry i posted on the wrong thread!
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prepared fried chicken are cheaper than the prices for the same product by weight from our local markets. So, what does that say to you, sir?
This is just one of the many possibilities, a really interesting reading too:
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Who believes that expired food is not good ? Stupid !
Even scavengers have a right to express their own reasons and i respect that
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build a 50meters high wall
Either that, or just give a radio call for back up to the nearest artillery contingency and pass on your coordinates, if the BiB frame you, just tell the court , they were building up a nuclear weapon and the rest of the world will agree with you...
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Huh? Not sure what you meant by the "stare into the universe"?
It's something that you have to experience it first hand to have a better grasp of this phenomenom, if you plan to stay in Thailand for any amount of time, i am sure you will have no problem to come across it, usually happens when you start asking questions, but not only that, just see it as a subliminal message being passed to you that usually gets you nowhere near where you originally wanted to be...
I was simply expressing my agreement that when you want to model your culture as western, (plastic nose bridges, white skin, pop boy/girl bands....etc) you need to accept the good and the bad (guns, greed, ego) that goes along with it.
That's the same argument being pulled forward by part of the expats here in Thailand, which basically can be resumed as, if you are here, you have to go with the flow accepting and eventually perpetrating the same crimes commited by a good part of the locals.
I am sorry but i would never go so low, i still have a dignity and i will not bargain that for some assumed privileges.
Take the goods and leave (or better, fight!) what is bad in every society, you can't possibly go wrong with that.
I know it sounds a bit simplistic....but, it's a fact. For example, take a look at the Songkran holiday. It used to be a simple affair with temple visits, family respect and prayers, simple water blessings, etc.....and now it's so commercialized in the traditional fashion of most western holidays....(I am speaking as an American), Thais begin to lose sight of the meaning while losing their Buddhist traditions to pursue an illusion of what the whole holiday is/was about! I dunno......I simply wanted to let you know my thoughts, no harm, no hate towards ya....I guess I am just trying to understand how the loss of humanity is growing everywhere as I travel around the world. Thanks for the provocation. ;-)
I have the same feeling about the Songkran, i hate the way it is now, that's why i don't partecipate to it, but there is no way i am going to condemn the west for this, nobody is forcing thais to act the way they are acting now, that's just violence and violence is everywhere, in some places more than others
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to get shot for being in a bar
you have to be carefull these days when you are in a bar and ask for another shot.....
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I was in Thailand in 1980, and came back here several years ago to retire. So i see the difference and changes.
Many postings share the same thread, "Why can't Thailand be more like us...the West?"
Well, now i see gun / gang violence, lack of respect for people, property and authority, drugs / alcohol abuse, and a recklessness that was not here before.
Be careful what you wish for, because news like this is something of a mirror...news that is normal in America, for example. As the new generation embraces "all things Western" this insanity is part of the package.
Yes, be careful what you wish for.
You took the words right out of my mouth.....I couldn't have said what we agree on here any better. No need to point fingers, our greed cultures are perpetuating this shit all over the undeveloped world......next?
Maybe you are both getting something in the wrong way?
I am kind of sure that when somebody here, made these references, it would refer to the good aspects of the western's life, surely not all the injustices that's going on there, on the same way as anyone else wanting the west to be more as Thailand, i am sure they don't mean they would enjoy to have more people giving you the "stare in the universe" kind of answers there and so on.....
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I've pretty regularly found REGULAR PRICE items at various of the farang supermarkets in BKK, seemingly the Central Markets more than the others, where packaged food items are on the shelf at regular prices AND expired sell-by dates.
Hey you remind me of something that has happened to me inside the now defunct (in thai soil), Carrefour.
I was asking at one of those staff running around the store floor on their rollerblades, how comes the french cheese on the fridge was still bearing the same price tags despite being the date of his expiration, i was expecting to see a new discounted label.....well, he removed all of them from the fridge and told me i couldn't buy them, another case of succesfull store managements at their best
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who cares if they are 'expired'.
I support your freedom to buy expired food, however i am against "presumably" serious stores taking the freedom to sell them to everyone, if they really want to, then they should make sure that customers are aware of this and not trying to pretend that they are exactly as the other products for sale, because they are not
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No other date was printed on the packages and according to the promoters, it was coming from China.....i felt much more safer as soon as i have been told this
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It is up to you!
That would sounds even better than "Every little helps" , can you imagine Thailand adopting it officially??
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Let's say, for example, that one day for some sort of weird coincidences, all the tv on sale get their back panels reduced to pieces, but the tv's are still working, with the inconvenience of having all their dangerous circuits exposed, yes, you can still say it's up to you to buy something like this, after all, it could even last more than another tv, but i would not appreciate to see those products up for sale to the general public, if managers could not do their jobs as they are supposed to, just get rid of them, the company will have an immediate financial gain just by doing this, obviously i hope that they will find a different way to deal with the problem, as maybe, give them a bit more training?
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Yes i can confirm the product was "noodles".
When i walk inside a "western owned" business, i am expecting that basic health rules would be respected, after all, if they have an expiry date, it must mean something, so, it would be the people in charge of making these sort of decision working in the company in question to make sure at least the very basic requirements are adhered to
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and also make sure that the managers implement these discounts BEFORE the expiration date, not having a 6 months nap and then wake up to start the sales, i am scared to think with what else they might come up with, not long ago i can recall another place(not Tesco) switching off all the fridges at night to save on the bills !
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The other people? None of our business.
No no no, sorry, i have a coscience and even if those people never had any sort of interaction with me before and probably will never have in the future, it really upset me that someone perhaps it's going to get sick because of a deceitfull business practice!
I don't think that Mr Clarke could walk out scott free if he tried these deals with the brits, irish or any other developed society, but they are doing it with the thais! what a shame
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Thanks for the input, however i believe there is a substantial difference between selling something "on the verge" of his expiration date and selling something almost 5 months past the expiration date.....
They are probably playing with the fact that many thais would NOT realize that 2011 correspond to the local 2554, or maybe just hope they don't check the expiration date at all...
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i agree!
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How can giving out a password, for example, to any of your random customers, protect the owner of a restaurant/cafe, etc?? or you guys have in place some of the more secured place on this planet, as checking their ID and perhaps taking finger prints and an eye scan to each one of them, or there is something i am not understanding here
When someone connect to your wi-fi, their machine it's in fact asking to your machine to lease them an ip address, if this can make someone feel better, if you would like anything else to it, as requesting the user to agree a Terms of Service Policy, to register in person or a few songs and a dance before you give them this new aquired power to browse the internet at their will, it's entirely up to you, maybe a button with the writing "Thank you" that they have to click before they get connected might make you happy
I just modelled my own connection by thinking how i would like to have it if i was on the other side, always keeping in mind what could potentially go wrong.
Personally when i am in a shopping center for example, and there are maybe 10-15 connections all asking for money, i am just disgusted by it, but that's just how i feel...