Rehctub, you and Belly have the same problem, you are both getting
old, dreaming about how things used to be :)

You both need to live with it, the world is changing.

Years ago you had a slackarsed Coles management, Woolies needed to
do little to be better. Wesfarmers have hired some of Europes
top retailers. A million extra customers a week are going through
their doors. They will do business for a 3% net margin.

So small retailers are going to have to innovate to compete, or
go out of business. People now shop on the internet, home delivery,
new products, ready to cook, all new trends. At some point the
Westfields of this world will have to reduce rents, or face more and
more empty stores in their centres.

For Sunday trading, the market is already finding a solution. Cash
payments off the books, at a rate which both employer and employee can
handle. The Govt will be the loser, less tax collected.

Belly, nobody is questioning your integrity, its your ability to
understand business that is the problem. The figures have to stack up, or they shut the doors. Things are not as rosy as you might
think, or 4 out of 5 would not go out of business.

Making a potential 40 or 50 dollars an hour on a Sunday, is not much
good to a worker who can't find work.

Nobody cares what used to be, that is fantasyland. Its the here and
now that matters. But perhaps you are just too old, tribal and set
in your ways to understand that.

Yabby I know what you are saying and I disagree.
Rechtub I have joined your thread,you took that foot out of your mouth and layed it in to me,my rib cadge is wet wipe it next time.
In 1990 your third would have come, now be honest Rechtub, a much smaller pool.
Your ten percent comes from a very much bigger income, not bad for some one who fails to understand.
And my risk taking mate,I would think it a fair return in todays market.
Doing it hard? sell the place bloke put it in super and forget the pesky workers/customers,tax man.
A great number willing to take the challenge to be as well off as your shops have made you and are waiting.
I rather think in any butcher shop an enterprising management can increase turn over.
And ten percent of more is more [maybe I got that wrong I know nothing of business]
If a surcharge is truely nott legal in QLD change weekend prices but remember it is a competitive world.
gross income may rise[and profits] by cutting them on weekends.

Can someone tell me why I am paying 10 Australian dollars for four medium sized bananas and no choice to buy any other cheaper kind?

Who is it I am supporting?

You are supporting cyclone damage in QLD.
It is likely your bananas are grown in NSW so the price is not justified.
ANY market days around your area $5 a kg at most.
Noticed about 200gk going rotten today at one of the big 0nes will be thrown out tonight rather than cut the price.

Jewely, if you are paying 2.50 per banana, then your husband earns
far too much money :)

But whats in season, its cheaper.

Jewely, if you are paying 2.50 per banana, then your husband earns
far too much money :)

Buy whats in season, its cheaper.