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I like that DD. I have often been asked if I was Luigi. Claude [Luigi] is a mad East Fremantle supporter and we used to meet up when we played The Sharks. He lived in Wilson for many years and now has retired in Mandurah.

Winger wrote: This what shits me, big business buys a business because its profitable, they then put their culture into that business and it doesn't work and the business suffers so they sell it. Westfarmers did this to Master dairy and WA Salvage where I spent twenty six years. JAY CAR is what Dick Smith should of been. Kodak was another company that lost its way but they survived.

Perhaps Kodak a bit different in that they had first dibs on digital technology for photos etc etc, and said nahhhh it will never work!!, as they say the rest is history

Yea that's right Unka2, they wouldn't change and thought digital photographing would take off, they soon got off their arses when it did take off.

Bazza wrote: Retailers are finding it tough competing with internet and all sorts of costs and competition. Retailers have always come and gone...Walshes, Freecorns, Boans, Aherns, Tom the Cheap, Moores, Charlie Craters, Stammers, Foodland, just a few ghosts of the past.

None of those as big as Dick Smith though. This has triggered the possibility of an official enquiry I heard late today on the radio news

Swandog wrote:

Bazza wrote: Retailers are finding it tough competing with internet and all sorts of costs and competition. Retailers have always come and gone...Walshes, Freecorns, Boans, Aherns, Tom the Cheap, Moores, Charlie Craters, Stammers, Foodland, just a few ghosts of the past.

None of those as big as Dick Smith though. This has triggered the possibility of an official enquiry I heard late today on the radio news

Ahhhh an official inquiry, thats really serious eh, catch all those rich greedy pricks knowingly rip off people eh?. Chance of any of em landig in jail.......nahh, BUT an official enquiry should help eh. it SOUNDS SO IMPORTANT. Hey people at a current affair keep chasing the welfare cheats, easing pickings that, anychance of going for thetop end of town where millions and millions get taken out of the "system"?............. end of rant.

Grassy wrote: Actually,I'd been thinking about the ownership of 9 since JAMES headed North(or South depending on your point of view)to the Casinos and out of Media ownership,although not totally.

Who does own 9 now.Ever since Packer Mk III left,7 really took control of the TV Ratings War and have been on top for years.I stopped looking at those figures in the Media section,as I became physically and mentally Sick,looking at the Top 10 Rated programs,more or less came from 7,with programs I wouldn't give time of day to,but the kids seem to love it.

Just recently,9's made a bit of a comeback,winning the SYDNEY and MELBOURNE 6PM Ratings slot and 10 would probably have The Project and maybe even Neighbors rate their socks off.Maybe that's why 7 are flogging the opening of Home and Away like never before,with their own version of Who a Shot Burns.

I think 7 are still winning overall but they aren't getting things all their own way,after recent years of Dominance in Television.

Are you on the right thread? Wtf has this got to do with Dick Smith.

Swandog wrote:

Bazza wrote: Retailers are finding it tough competing with internet and all sorts of costs and competition. Retailers have always come and gone...Walshes, Freecorns, Boans, Aherns, Tom the Cheap, Moores, Charlie Craters, Stammers, Foodland, just a few ghosts of the past.

None of those as big as Dick Smith though. This has triggered the possibility of an official enquiry I heard late today on the radio news

Angus and Robertson is another big national chain that went bust.

Talking BIG - What about Ansett,,,is that big enough for you....Big and Small and inbetween, nothing new about Business going bust,,,

Peter North wrote:

Grassy wrote: Actually,I'd been thinking about the ownership of 9 since JAMES headed North(or South depending on your point of view)to the Casinos and out of Media ownership,although not totally.

Who does own 9 now.Ever since Packer Mk III left,7 really took control of the TV Ratings War and have been on top for years.I stopped looking at those figures in the Media section,as I became physically and mentally Sick,looking at the Top 10 Rated programs,more or less came from 7,with programs I wouldn't give time of day to,but the kids seem to love it.

Just recently,9's made a bit of a comeback,winning the SYDNEY and MELBOURNE 6PM Ratings slot and 10 would probably have The Project and maybe even Neighbors rate their socks off.Maybe that's why 7 are flogging the opening of Home and Away like never before,with their own version of Who a Shot Burns.

I think 7 are still winning overall but they aren't getting things all their own way,after recent years of Dominance in Television.

Are you on the right thread? Wtf has this got to do with Dick Smith.

LOL...