They should have a website or FB page or something for this initiative....so they are already on a bad foot They also should have done this as soon as the they were allowed to reopen.
The Mar-May lockdowns which prevented retailers from even delivering made it worse and put them at a disadvantage.
But that was the past here is what I would tell them to do:
Where you can compete with US Retailers
1) Improve Service
The retailers who do well are the ones who build relationships with customers and make you want to go back. Not the ones who don't answer the phone, don't know what they sell, and have poor attitudes.
2) Add pickup and delivery options
Follow CBS, Kraven and otthers
Where you can top US retailers
3) Be willing to bundle installation and hands on support
Amazon and Walmart can't
4) Have return policies
No one is paying to ship a product back
5) Promote your warranty.
Walmart and Amazon can not compete with you here.
6) Have customers test their products in store
if you order online you're taking a risk if you buy local you know before you leave if it works or not
7) Bundle items or services with other retailers
8) Loyalty and rewards
9)Advertise the total cost
Post signs with each big ticket item:
Big ticket item Our Price: 620 With Warranty With Returns Support
If you bought it from Walmart with No Warranty, no hands on support US 299 FX and Stamp tax Fees (2.9%) Duty (35%) 104.65 Processing Fee (1%) 2.99 Environmental Levy ($5.00) 5.00 Customs Item VAT (12%) 49.40 Total 162.04 Freight Forwarder: 100 Insurance: (3%): $9 Handling Fee: 10 VAT 14.28 Total landed Price $589.01 with no warranty or hands on support or try before you buy
However, Mr Gibson argued that the commercial banks needed to merge their Family Island branches into shared services hubs. This, he suggested, would reduce costs and generate greater efficiencies while enabling them to continue serving these markets.
Merge operations, reduce costs, create efficiencies? I think he should give this lecture to the Cabinet.
“There is a strict, unwritten rule that no individual should function within two or more branches. In other words, if you are an executive, you should have no role in the judiciary or legislative branch."
I agree with much of what he says except for the paragraphs quoted.
Why do people claim there is a separation of people performing functions in our constitution between the legislature and the executive.
Our constitution is explicit in the opposite.
The PM who heads the executive must come from the legislature. The Cabinet must consist of either House Members or Senators. Westminister is based on the executive coming from the legislature as we don't separately elect a head of government.
I would expect the Speaker of the House to know this.
Where he does have a point is the habit of picking Backbench MPs as Govt Corp. Chairpersons. But otherwise, he is off. if he is calling for a change in the constitution that's another thing.
thps says...
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They should have a website or FB page or something for this initiative....so they are already on a bad foot They also should have done this as soon as the they were allowed to reopen.
The Mar-May lockdowns which prevented retailers from even delivering made it worse and put them at a disadvantage.
But that was the past here is what I would tell them to do:
Where you can compete with US Retailers
1) Improve Service
The retailers who do well are the ones who build relationships with customers and make you want to go back. Not the ones who don't answer the phone, don't know what they sell, and have poor attitudes.
2) Add pickup and delivery options
Follow CBS, Kraven and otthers
Where you can top US retailers
3) Be willing to bundle installation and hands on support
Amazon and Walmart can't
4) Have return policies
No one is paying to ship a product back
5) Promote your warranty.
Walmart and Amazon can not compete with you here.
6) Have customers test their products in store
if you order online you're taking a risk if you buy local you know before you leave if it works or not
7) Bundle items or services with other retailers
8) Loyalty and rewards
9)Advertise the total cost
Post signs with each big ticket item:
Big ticket item Our Price: 620
With Warranty
With Returns
Support
If you bought it from Walmart with No Warranty, no hands on support
US 299
FX and Stamp tax Fees (2.9%)
Duty (35%) 104.65
Processing Fee (1%) 2.99
Environmental Levy ($5.00) 5.00
Customs Item VAT (12%) 49.40
Total 162.04
Freight Forwarder: 100
Insurance: (3%): $9
Handling Fee: 10
VAT 14.28
Total landed Price $589.01 with no warranty or hands on support or try before you buy
9: Where you can beat Miami prices advertise it.
On 'Buy Bahamian' initiative critical for 25,000 jobs
Posted 18 November 2020, 4:29 p.m. Suggest removal
thps says...
However, Mr Gibson argued that the commercial banks needed to merge their Family Island branches into shared services hubs. This, he suggested, would reduce costs and generate greater efficiencies while enabling them to continue serving these markets.
Merge operations, reduce costs, create efficiencies? I think he should give this lecture to the Cabinet.
On MP pushes for bank shared service hubs
Posted 13 November 2020, 6:51 p.m. Suggest removal
thps says...
Just walk on the new sidewalks...problem solved.
On Flooded again - residents of Coral Harbour left frustrated
Posted 10 November 2020, 7:34 p.m. Suggest removal
thps says...
Good summary.
On Speaker Moultrie hands in his keys
Posted 2 November 2020, 6:35 p.m. Suggest removal
thps says...
Don't ask him which numbers to buy.
On Economy rebound ‘in six months’
Posted 2 November 2020, 3:10 p.m. Suggest removal
thps says...
“There is a strict, unwritten rule that no individual should function within two or more branches. In other words, if you are an executive, you should have no role in the judiciary or legislative branch."
I agree with much of what he says except for the paragraphs quoted.
Why do people claim there is a separation of people performing functions in our constitution between the legislature and the executive.
Our constitution is explicit in the opposite.
The PM who heads the executive must come from the legislature.
The Cabinet must consist of either House Members or Senators.
Westminister is based on the executive coming from the legislature as we don't separately elect a head of government.
I would expect the Speaker of the House to know this.
Where he does have a point is the habit of picking Backbench MPs as Govt Corp. Chairpersons. But otherwise, he is off. if he is calling for a change in the constitution that's another thing.
On Speaker Moultrie hands in his keys
Posted 2 November 2020, 8:28 a.m. Suggest removal
thps says...
"no one would imagine seven months later the impact of the virus would remain so severe."
"said the Minister of Tourism from his home on planet Zen, meanwhile, here on planet Earth"
On Govt scraps COVID-19 antigen testing for travelers upon arrival
Posted 31 October 2020, 5:38 p.m. Suggest removal
thps says...
But didn't our leaders reject the broader testing strategy?
On PAHO: Testing the best way
Posted 22 October 2020, 5:53 p.m. Suggest removal
thps says...
I agree with the PM.
Unlike retailers, the Govt has set a great example and has had 'most or all' of its services online and 'most or all' of its workers working remotely.
Just look at the
On PM 'disappointed' over retailers' online absence
Posted 22 October 2020, 5:44 p.m. Suggest removal
thps says...
as long as we can find money on our health care infrastructure and other pressing capital works maters.
On ‘$20m on sidewalks to give jobs for Bahamians’
Posted 20 October 2020, 7:14 p.m. Suggest removal