I am used to seeing the prices at Woolworths and Coles rise dramatically when fuel prices are at the top of the tree, such as cauliflowers were up to $8 each during the last fuel rise. But now as fuel prices are at a two-year low, I do not see the prices in these so-called family stores going down.
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Cherries were just under $19 per kilo the other day, and needless to say they were just rotting on the shelf. To my knowledge, at Young the cherries were selling for $5 per kilo at Christmas so where does the logic come in?
With the price of cartage affecting the prices of the fruit and veg, someone at these stores must have a fair-sized nose by now. The public can’t be that gullible and all we can hope for is a few more Aldi stores to at least keep the rest honest.
Bob Manskie, Sanctuary Point
This is going to be bloody hilarious, if Tricky Tony does another backflip, and tells Philip sorry mate ya not getting the gong.
Max Ackerman, Bulli
No Gonski and now ‘‘Captain’s Tick’’ deserves ‘‘golden flick’’. Just another major misread of the mind of the Australian people. Get your act together PM, or go.
Chris Carroll, Wollongong
For many years I always pushed for penalty rates to be divided into two categories:
● Essential services, being transport, health, media, food distribution, utilities, communications, and charities.
● Non-essential services, being entertainment, gambling, sport, alcoholic outlets, restaurants, fast food outlets and retail outlets.
Businesses that make their goods and services available on a more casual, take-it-or-leave-it opportunistic basis, are always complaining louder and longer than everyone else, yet offer the least amount of job satisfaction and security.
It is no longer possible to apply a broad-blanket penalty rate structure as it was in the past.
A golden rule is that where a worker is worthy of their hire, they should be paid accordingly.
Dave Cox, Corrimal
There has been a lot of outrage about the treatment of our police officers when they go off on compo with PTSD. What on earth is this post-traumatic stress disorder, I have wondered.
When I started work in the Illawarra in 1953 there was no such thing as RSI (repetitive strain injury ) or PTSD. When a worker became a bit crook, he took a couple of days off to get better.
Years ago when a group of women won their court case against BHP for discrimination, BHP started employing women. Within a matter of months, half of these women were on compo with RSI, back injuries and whatever else became a fashionable reason to be home for. Soon some men adopted this new-found disease, and it became a real problem, with BHP having to cover them with overtime.
For a small business, it can be devastating to have a worker off on PTSD or RSI. It can send them bankrupt.
John Pronk, Wollongong
RE the shark alerts. It’s not those in the water you should worry about, but those on the land, as they do far greater evil.
Brian George, Berkeley