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Just been down local retail park.

It was packed, people buying TVs, computers, tablets. I gave a quick fist pump n thrust at the sight of hard working families splashing the cash. :beer:
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  • marleyboy
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    Well bully for you ;) Who would have thought it? Customers at retail parks. :D
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  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Should help the Chinese economy no end.
  • wiogs
    wiogs Posts: 2,744 Forumite
    Wonder how you could tell they were hard working families? Do they wear special clothes to indicate this?
  • dealer_wins
    dealer_wins Posts: 7,334 Forumite
    wiogs wrote: »
    Wonder how you could tell they were hard working families? Do they wear special clothes to indicate this?

    Because non-working families get drunk all weekend, and do their TV & I-tat shopping during working hours to rub it in :D
  • Pobby
    Pobby Posts: 5,438 Forumite
    Because non-working families get drunk all weekend, and do their TV & I-tat shopping during working hours to rub it in :D

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  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    http://www.stepchange.org/Debtinformationandadvice/Typesofdebt/Creditcarddebt.aspx#

    They had better save this link and get this ready for after Xmas.
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  • chucky
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    ILW wrote: »
    Should help the Chinese economy no end.
    What's the profit margin and manufacturing margin on TVs, computers, tablets?
  • Hard working families have had to battle the HPC chain gang for many years. Now the hard working family has won and the HPC chain gang members are crying into their cornflakes the hard working families can go and spend some money on TVs, fridges, tablets
  • Pobby
    Pobby Posts: 5,438 Forumite
    Hard working families have had to battle the HPC chain gang for many years. Now the hard working family has won and the HPC chain gang members are crying into their cornflakes the hard working families can go and spend some money on TVs, fridges, tablets

    Explain a little more?
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    edited 26 October 2013 at 8:51PM
    chucky wrote: »
    What's the profit margin and manufacturing margin on TVs, computers, tablets?

    Not a lot but when you make millions and employ millions every bit of hard currency makes a difference.

    1.3bn US$ BOT surplus so far this year.
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
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