johng Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 Correction 16,990bht delivered from Lazada (4k UHD), but how often do I buy a big TV?After the big lightning storm ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 A great job of what?Acquiring expensive watches,submarines,statues and satellites. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Loh Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 26 minutes ago, mogandave said: I think it’s what it is. Businesses need to compete if they want to stay in business. People get tired of trading with shops that change the sell-by dates and restaurants with dirty kitchens and or bathrooms. Do you think the employees are generally treated better at Tesco or a mom and pop shop? Fast food is not putting good restaurants out of business. What do you think? Will be hard to compete with the big corporations as they have the financial muscle to force suppliers to cut prices and give long credit terms. You gains are suppliers lost. The mom and pop shops that I patronized have a nice personal relationship, know my name and my favorite products. Doubt Tesco can treat you the same. Can they? Most small restaurants have clean toilet facilities as they also use it. Fast food affect small businesses and destroying the tradition food culture. What you think? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bwlch Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 I’m a master...I paid 22k for a 44” Samsung flat-screen a few years ago and today I can get 55” Samsung flat-screen for 21k.That proves inflation is NEGATIVE!!!!!All that proves is that you have more money than sense.Sent from my iPad using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogandave Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 Will be hard to compete with the big corporations as they have the financial muscle to force suppliers to cut prices and give long credit terms. You gains are suppliers lost. The mom and pop shops that I patronized have a nice personal relationship, know my name and my favorite products. Doubt Tesco can treat you the same. Can they? Most small restaurants have clean toilet facilities as they also use it. Fast food affect small businesses and destroying the tradition food culture. What you think? Shops that treat people well and offer good products at reasonable value continue to have customers. You and I continue to trade with them, yes?Most small restaurants have clean toilets? That just has not been my experience, but in any event, restaurants that offer good service and clean, tasty food at competitive prices will do fine. You and I will continue to trade with them?”, yes?A nice Vietnamese restaurant opened a couple years ago, great fresh spring rolls. Does that not negatively affect existing small businesses and destroy the traditional food culture?I think people should eat where they want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogandave Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 All that proves is that you have more money than sense.Sent from my iPad using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile appYou can have the sense, I’ll take the money... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercman24 Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 most Thais dont even know what day it is,, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogandave Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 most Thais dont even know what day it is,, lolThey got your money... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Loh Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 2 minutes ago, mogandave said: Shops that treat people well and offer good products at reasonable value continue to have customers. You and I continue to trade with them, yes? Most small restaurants have clean toilets? That just has not been my experience, but in any event, restaurants that offer good service and clean, tasty food at competitive prices will do fine. You and I will continue to trade with them?”, yes? A nice Vietnamese restaurant opened a couple years ago, great fresh spring rolls. Does that not negatively affect existing small businesses and destroy the traditional food culture? I think people should eat where they want. I certainly will want to do business with those shops that treat their customers well and have good food. However the reality is that most of these small shops and restaurants will not be around when the big chains muscle their way into the local community. That’s why I am advocating a government intervention to listen to the people concerns and have regulations regarding where the big chains can operate. Elected government with accountability tends to do better in this respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogandave Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 I certainly will want to do business with those shops that treat their customers well and have good food. However the reality is that most of these small shops and restaurants will not be around when the big chains muscle their way into the local community. That’s why I am advocating a government intervention to listen to the people concerns and have regulations regarding where the big chains can operate. Elected government with accountability tends to do better in this respect. So you would deny a hundred thousand working Thais a nice new Tesco to benefit a few hundred shop owners?No doubt when Tesco is barred from a particular area the local businesses will lower their prices and improve their service.What about HomePro, PowerBuy, Starbucks, Ptt, Major Cineplex & Thai Airways, they all have to go as well? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sawadee1947 Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 3 hours ago, LomSak27 said: You have rich people having problems, and poor people really in trouble, yet what are you doing, whinging about the the Shins. My God, maybe you get paid for these posts, but try to show a little empathy even if its fake. Empathy for rich people with there problems? Yeah hurrah, that's it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brling Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 1 hour ago, sambum said: "this is a Thai forum" So why does it state in the Rules:- "English is the only acceptable language anywhere on ThaiVisa including Classifieds, except within the Thai language forum, where of course using Thai is allowed." If it was a Thai forum, then Thai would be the only acceptable language ...........etc etc Nonsense, english language about Thai, unless its in the "world section" of the forum. This topic is in the Thai news. Wise up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernRyland Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 1 hour ago, Wang Lalker said: take a look at phnom penh cambodia. the amount of proportional new developement is is far in excess of anywhere i have ever seen. streets i once knew well have become unrecognizable didnt go to sihanookville but from what i've read its even going ahead faster than phnom penh with new chinese mega money I was just down in Kam Pot and they said Chinese had bought up sihanookville, kicked out the white guys and only rent to other Chinese now. Cambodia allows them to own land so they've decided to take their investment money there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkk6060 Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 5 minutes ago, genericptr said: I was just down in Kam Pot and they said Chinese had bought up sihanookville, kicked out the white guys and only rent to other Chinese now. Cambodia allows them to own land so they've decided to take their investment money there. I certainly hope that is true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernRyland Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 1 minute ago, bkk6060 said: I certainly hope that is true. why?? It was totally f**cked there in the Airport. Yelling Chinese people everywhere. The old shop owners that got kicked out weren't so happy either and apparently the beach (I didn't get to go there) has been transformed into a Chinese-only zone. Basically the Cambodian version of China town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogandave Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 why?? It was totally f**cked there in the Airport. Yelling Chinese people everywhere. The old shop owners that got kicked out weren't so happy either and apparently the beach (I didn't get to go there) has been transformed into a Chinese-only zone. Basically the Cambodian version of China town.Better there than here... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkk6060 Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 5 minutes ago, genericptr said: why?? It was totally f**cked there in the Airport. Yelling Chinese people everywhere. The old shop owners that got kicked out weren't so happy either and apparently the beach (I didn't get to go there) has been transformed into a Chinese-only zone. Basically the Cambodian version of China town. It makes me happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 Inflation is the measure of a healthy economy......for economists! For the average earner it is the perpetual drain of the pocket. For the Tax Department it is an incremental increase in the VAT take thus the wheel of the money go round may seem slower but is bigger. A vast number of the Thai population pay only the VAT in purchases. If any system was introduced in Thailand that emulated the tax take in most fully developed locations then there could be cause for more valid comment. That Thailand can not only survive but also improve infrastructurally on the current situation despite the acknowledged corruption should raise questions as to why taxation is so draconian in western countries ! And which country is not already indebted to the IMF or World Bank as it stands? Of course it is of concern to those expat refugees who long stay in Thailand on the basis of a cheap existence derived from an ever decreasing value, exchange rate, purchasing capacity from whatever income they access. But for them......cry in your soup. You will at least recycle the salt from the sweat of the stress ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brunolem Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 2 hours ago, GaryAdriaenssens said: We could also ask ourselves this question "where is it really going well these days?" Don't tell me the EU, please! ? Bhutan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen tracy Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 1 hour ago, johng said: 2 hours ago, stephen tracy said: A great job of what? Acquiring expensive watches,submarines,statues and satellites. And robbing plaques. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brunolem Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 1 hour ago, Eric Loh said: Those bars, restaurants and mom and pop shops don’t fit into the category of SME. You don’t feel that the big supermarkets, fast food titans killing small businesses and dismantling the thread that holds local community together. These big corporation control prices, suppliers and products. You think that’s good? Unfortunately, most countries are morphing into oligarchies. The fact that an economy may be humming or even booming doesn't mean that everyone is benefiting from it. A good example of what you say is Amazon in America. Its founder is the richest guy in the world, its employees cannot even take a break for a piss, and because this giant is selling at a loss, it is completely destroying the American retail network, meaning that thousands of people are losing their jobs. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brunolem Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 1 hour ago, bkk6060 said: I have never asked that because I am very happy. And, it goes very well every afternoon in my bedroom. ? Again, if some want to wallow in negativity "nothing is good the whole world sucks" up to them. It's a choice really. I guess that you are not a Buddhist... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadbury Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 Can't be all that bad. Seems sex toy shops are on a roll. Perhaps some retailers should switch their merchandise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brunolem Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 1 hour ago, Eric Loh said: That’s why I am advocating a government intervention to listen to the people concerns and have regulations regarding where the big chains can operate. Elected government with accountability tends to do better in this respect. Unfortunately, politicians tend to favor those who contribute the most to their campaigns. This is in fact thanks to governments, local or national, that the big chains have been able to crush the opposition. I remember, decades ago, the debate about whether super and hypermarkets should be let free to roam, knowing that they would destroy mom and pops shops...we all know how it ended... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manarak Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 On 6/6/2018 at 2:49 PM, jayboy said: Sorry to hear about your sister in law.But it probably has less to do with the strength of the Baht than an noncompetitive overall cost structure, a huge problem in the Thai textile industry. yes... at the same time it's difficult for me to ignore the irony. the baht is high because the country's finances are doing not bad - it seems that Western policies of distributing free money and running deficits in the end hurts countries like Thailand which avoided too much socialist policies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brunolem Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 35 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said: That Thailand can not only survive but also improve infrastructurally on the current situation despite the acknowledged corruption should raise questions as to why taxation is so draconian in western countries ! Taxation (+ debt) in Western countries finance a ruinous welfare and warfare state that doesn't exist in Thailand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 6 minutes ago, Brunolem said: Taxation (+ debt) in Western countries finance a ruinous welfare and warfare state that doesn't exist in Thailand You believe Thailand is actually so far behind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brunolem Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 2 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said: You believe Thailand is actually so far behind? It sure is! The welfare here is minimal, or even below minimal. As for the warfare, Thailand is not constantly engaged in various and meaningless military conflicts. Having an army is one thing, but deploying it all over the world increase its cost fivefolds! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 29 minutes ago, Brunolem said: Unfortunately, most countries are morphing into oligarchies. The fact that an economy may be humming or even booming doesn't mean that everyone is benefiting from it. A good example of what you say is Amazon in America. Its founder is the richest guy in the world, its employees cannot even take a break for a piss, and because this giant is selling at a loss, it is completely destroying the American retail network, meaning that thousands of people are losing their jobs. And how much comment is there on the long term strategy of that? The greed is short term because beggars cannot pay. So why? I have no direction to understanding what is happening. That the world is becoming strange is not a satisfactory answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post spidermike007 Posted June 7, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 7, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, stropper said: i beleive that you are the goon! if you do not like it here get back to where your came from, your most likely another bludging pommy <deleted>, whinger, sick of yas. the present people in charge in thailand are doing a great job! if you cared to look further than around your bar stool Funny reply. Sounds like you either have some anger issues, or work for the government goons. I do not hang out at bars. Rarely. And there are more than likely less than 1,000 people nationwide that agree with your assessment that the present people in charge are doing a great job. However, you could probably get a job doing PR for the little man, if you needed the cash. Very lame. Nearly every time I see someone complaining, or observing a shortfall within Thailand, some lame guy, who has not taken the time to think things through, nor to devote any focus or effort to a reasonable reply, says something like "Perhaps Thailand is not for you", or maybe you should leave, or the top prize, "if you do not like it here, go back to your own country". Hard to even respond to such inane statements. Why? Because I have some issues with the place? Sorry to inform you, but the nature of a discerning mind, is to have issues. Though absolute contentment must be a beautiful state of mind, it is not something most of us are blessed with, in case you have not noticed. The fact that I complain, does not mean I do not love Thailand, nor most of it's people. I do. I love my life here. I have a very good life here. But, I do have some complaints, and there are some things I would love to see improved. I should leave because of that? Please. Next time you make a post, try to devote at least two moments of thought to it. Edited June 7, 2018 by spidermike007 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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