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General Category => Chesterfield Discussion => Topic started by: Pete on July 24, 2014, 08:51:04 PM
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As the title says, a New Boyes store opened in Chesterfield today.
Is it me, or are we starting to look cheap?
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We've heard various comments as taxi drivers, and people feedback about Boyes opening today.
Another Wilkos, another Pound Stretcher, just another pound shop. (Which it's not).
It's a shop in town, it employs people.
They have about 50+ shops nationwide now.
Does it make town look cheap, I don't think so.
I wish there was a Poundland in Boza though.
Competition as I was once told.
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I watched an advert on TV last night from one of those places for school kids clothes. The prices were the lowest I've seen - and I wondered why we all ignore the child labour exploitation and the health and safety for the women who make these things.
Just so we can have cheap clothes.
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I watched an advert on TV last night from one of those places for school kids clothes. The prices were the lowest I've seen - and I wondered why we all ignore the child labour exploitation and the health and safety for the women who make these things.
Just so we can have cheap clothes.
Or maybe some people just can't afford to pay more?
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One of the major supermarkets sells gents' T shirts for a fiver each. I wonder how much they pay workers in factories in Bangladesh to make them.
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Not a lot. But if you think back we used to have the textile industries that made the same garments but people started demanding cheaper clothes. There's only one way to make anything cheaper and that's to cut costs. So if a Bangladeshi worker is getting paid the equivalent of 50p a week who's fault is it? By all means pay him £500 a week but be prepared to pay £25 for your t shirt.
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@ Big Dave - the advert was for a pair of trousers and a pleated skirt, a shirt and a blouse - £4 the lot!
@ Jon - my last tee shirt cost £50... :o
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>> Or maybe some people just can't afford to pay more?
But how far do we support the b*st*rds who are responsible for this?
(http://www.ichesterfield.co.uk/images/slave-labour2.jpg)
Makes you think, doesn't it.
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Problem is Pete, it's dog eat dog when times are hard isn't it. So a parent who needs to clothe her children won't be bothered about the working conditions or how much the people get paid for making the clothes.
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If everyone stopped buying these cheap clothes then what would happen to all these people who make them?....... I'll tell you, they would be out of work , starving and drinking water from muddy puddles etc. Then we would be being pestered on TV and the like to send "Aid" £3 a month here £2 a week there, to save the starving and desperate in this country or that.
As far as I can see it's not our problem, it is the problem of which ever country's government they are in.
I can't remember any of these countrys offering to help last winter when most of Britain was under water and our people were in desperate state having lost everything.
As to making 8 and 9yr old kids work in these factories then again who's fault is that? Ours,..... I don't think so! Start with the kids parents, or the factory owners, or the government.
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Good point.
So we can't help them?
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IMHO we do help them, by buying the things they make.
Personally I would sooner buy something they have made that I want/need than just hand over some cash, which always somehow seems to "go adrift" before it gets to those it was intended for.
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I don't remember demanding cheaper clothes from a supermarket. Come to think of it, I don't remember asking a supermarket for clothes at all. Pity they ever went 'non-food' in my view, did enormous harm to local economies everywhere.
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@ Engine Driver, some of these countries are years behind us when it comes to sending children to work. The UK did it years ago when the children were sent out in the fields or down the pits. I agree it is up to their government to make things 'better' for these people.
We now have our own poverty problems and any decent parent will want to see their children clothed.
@ Dave, there was a period of time in Chesterfield where buying children s clothes became quite difficult as we saw Littlewoods and Woolworths close down, it left the Co-op and M&S. School clothes were difficult to buy unless it was sports wear of course.
The tesco's and Primark improved this.
If we had an improvement on manufacturers who made clothes in this country we would see clothes much more expensive going on the shelves - many can't afford to pay a lot.
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Called in the new Boyes store today. Spent £17 on stuff. Saved us about £5 if we'd bought the items from elsewhere.
Also been in PoundWorld, spent £25. Mini Cheddars 1/2 price of Tescos. Mitchum deodorant, 1/3rd the price.
We've literally saved £30 by coming to town today.
Branded products at knock down prices, how does that make Chesterfield look cheap ;)
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@ Big Dave - the advert was for a pair of trousers and a pleated skirt, a shirt and a blouse - £4 the lot!
@ Jon - my last tee shirt cost £50... :o
Pete, you are one of the more fortunate ones to be able to spend that amount on a T shirt, people with children probably couldn't.
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Called in the new Boyes store today. Spent £17 on stuff. Saved us about £5 if we'd bought the items from elsewhere.
Were they clothes from Boyes and if so what's the quality like Fly.
Also been in PoundWorld, spent £25. Mini Cheddars 1/2 price of Tescos. Mitchum deodorant, 1/3rd the price.
We've literally saved £30 by coming to town today.
Branded products at knock down prices, how does that make Chesterfield look cheap ;)
Speaking specifically about the quality clothes - how many shops do we have in Chesterfield which actually sell the more expensive clothes. I have some designer evening wear but generally will use BHS or M&S etc for other stuff.
We seem to be inundated with sports shops.
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>> Pete, you are one of the more fortunate ones to be able to spend that amount on a T shirt, people with children probably couldn't.
Actually I'm not on a good income, but I save up to buy quality and it lasts. For instance I bought a Barbour waxed jacket a few years ago. It cost £200 but it could last up to 20 years. They are very well made and have a certain style that does not follow fashion and they are made from the best quality materials. And because they are considered a classic garment, there is no going out of style.
I could've bought something for £50 from Next, but it would look OK for a couple of years, when I would be looking to buy again. You can even get these jackets rewaxed and get another 5/10 years out of them.
BTW OC, I have had kids and have been unemployed a few times - I've pushed the cheap double pushchair in the rain many, many times. I'm not that well educated and do not have a degree or even lots of O Levels.
I just do my best and work hard, often 7 days a week and up to 12 hours a day when I started my own business. Yet I hear folks bleat about being hard up - but they want to work a basic 5 day week and no work in the evenings.
We have no foreign holidays - can't afford them, my car cost £250 and will only last a couple of years. So please don't think I am well off - I'm not.
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>> Pete, you are one of the more fortunate ones to be able to spend that amount on a T shirt, people with children probably couldn't.
Actually I'm not on a good income, but I save up to buy quality and it lasts. For instance I bought a Barbour waxed jacket a few years ago. It cost £200 but it could last up to 20 years. They are very well made and have a certain style that does not follow fashion and they are made from the best quality materials. And because they are considered a classic garment, there is no going out of style.
I could've bought something for £50 from Next, but it would look OK for a couple of years, when I would be looking to buy again. You can even get these jackets rewaxed and get another 5/10 years out of them.
BTW OC, I have had kids and have been unemployed a few times - I've pushed the cheap double pushchair in the rain many, many times. I'm not that well educated and do not have a degree or even lots of O Levels.
I just do my best and work hard, often 7 days a week and up to 12 hours a day when I started my own business. Yet I hear folks bleat about being hard up - but they want to work a basic 5 day week and no work in the evenings.
We have no foreign holidays - can't afford them, my car cost £250 and will only last a couple of years. So please don't think I am well off - I'm not.
Shucks and there's me thinking I could borrow a few quid off you :(
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Sorry Pam... ;)
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That's ok Pete = I'm sure if you had a spare half a crown you would loan it me - :'(
Maybe Fly ?????? he's saved lots on his shopping this week ;)
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Bad timing OC, Wales on Thursday, the savings are our petrol money ::)
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Bad timing OC, Wales on Thursday, the savings are our petrol money ::)
What happened to 'helping those in need in the UK ::)
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Stagecoach need new drivers continually. Apply stagecoachbus.com.
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Ca'moron got voted in by the get rich quick brigade.
He'll be out soon.
Someone else will make a fail at getting things sorted, at least they sort of try.
Then the rich crowd move in again for another quick buck or two and blame the last lot.
Back to step 1, top of post, just another tory name instead. endless circular crap !!
Forgot to mention, we also called in the big Tesco in town Sunday.
We can't spend our book tokens we'd had bought us in there. Strange, cos they actually sell them ::)
On the way out I noticed a box of reduced items,
Iceberg lettuce 5p
2 x Bunch Spring Onions, 5p each, bargain :D
Don't tempt me Scimitar, hourly pay :)
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Stagecoach need new drivers continually. Apply stagecoachbus.com.
Do they set old grannies on?
On second thoughts what about old granddad's - I'm not into women's lib ;)
Never burned my bra cos never had one - and now Pete and Fly won't loan me half a crown -- ====
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Ca'moron got voted in by the get rich quick brigade.
He'll be out soon.
Someone else will make a fail at getting things sorted, at least they sort of try.
Then the rich crowd move in again for another quick buck or two and blame the last lot.
Back to step 1, top of post, just another tory name instead. endless circular crap !!
Forgot to mention, we also called in the big Tesco in town Sunday.
We can't spend our book tokens we'd had bought us in there. Strange, cos they actually sell them ::)
On the way out I noticed a box of reduced items,
Iceberg lettuce 5p
2 x Bunch Spring Onions, 5p each, bargain :D
Don't tempt me Scimitar, hourly pay :)
You can only drive for stage coach if you can understand my sign language when you come through our village - scimitar will need to maybe train you up. ::)
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No problem OC :)
Seriously though SG need drivers at the moment. I'm not asking on their behalf, because,I'm just a driver.We are being asked to do a lot of overtime as a result.
But if £300 a week(after deductions) is good enough, then its up to you ;) :) ;D
Paid every Friday. £10.01 an hour minimum 39 hours per week guaranteed. I know at least 5 drivers recently left.
Strangely enough no vacancies on the website for drivers though.http://www.stagecoachbus.com/jobsearchresults.aspx?reg=&loc=Chesterfield&oper=&type=&key=&status= (http://www.stagecoachbus.com/jobsearchresults.aspx?reg=&loc=Chesterfield&oper=&type=&key=&status=)