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I don't shop at the Jandakot one anymore, but when I did i wasn't unusual see people shopping in their PJ's and occasionally half undressed, but this takes the cake.
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Its rife everywhere, I find Gateways is good for a laugh if you have time to sit and watch while you grab a meal from the food court, there are a lot of people who have a different level of acceptable that's for sure, Spudshed just attracts a different type of shopper that's all.
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The rats were at our local spud shed, I can confirm it's the WA version of Walmart!
Given it's the only thing open 24hrs I've seen some funny sights during them evening hours
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It'd be nice if Melbourne had a 24hr store like this. But no, we go bed-e-byes between 10pm-midnight.
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The rats look tame, and I reckon it’s a good bet they’re more hygienic than some of the people who shop there.
And that’s not to mention some peoples kids… |
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Slow day in Perth was it ?
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More like WA Salvage for the sandgropers that remember it. Products out of date by 12 months or more, old, seconds veges that couldn't be sold to the chains and rancid meat.
I'd be more worried about the Rat that owns place. Remember his stoush with the Potato board? A regulatory body in place to stop people holding a monopoly on the industry. Salt of the earth farmer just wanted the right to treat the people of Perth to magical new varieties of spuds ![]() So wheres our gourmet produce? All I see is a mega farm in Myalup that bought all the water rights in the area giving a couple of local tourist towns no option to stop watering their footy fields, golf courses and recreation areas, ruining the local businesses and towns. Yeah great place to shop.
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Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato...tern_Australia etc Quote:
What it certainly did achieve was to severely restrict the variety of potatoes available to consumers in WA to a just a couple in practice for many years and artificially raise prices to consumers without (due in my view to its operating inefficiencies) increasing farmers returns and in my view give cushy jobs to same right leaning Board members. I am so glad it has gone. Quote:
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"The agency dictated the varieties and volume in the WA potato market"
They did this by issuing quotas did they not?
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Therefore eliminating one grower holding a monopoly.
In my time working in small production quota's were a god send. We had a target to aim for, ability to forecast crop needs and an end price. The big guys will just over produce, under price and wear the loss until the small guy goes bust, same as what the big supermarkets do which we're slowly starting to wake up too. Still yet to see all of these new varieties of potatoes we were promised on the shelves.
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I used to work for super spud back in those days as a truck driver, the potato board didn't stop the sale of black market spuds as it was rife back in those days so it really wasnt restricting as much as it thought it was.
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I had relatives with potato farm in Northcliffe, Pemberton and Manjimup so I understand that perspective to. But the PMC was a post war artefact that discouraged efficiencies and encouraged inefficiencies all the way from the paddock to the shelf and also reduced consumer product options.
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Black market potatoes, who’d have thought? More chip-chip than chop-chop.
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In any event, apart from a continuing academic interest, it's a bit immaterial to me as I am very allergic to potatoes. Nightshade vegies are a big no no for us psoriasis sufferers and potatoes makes my psoriasis flare up on my skin and in my stomach (gastrointestinal bleeding) more than anything. So much for my 49% spud eating Irish ancestry.
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Still waiting on those new varieties, it'll be dinner time soon...
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Oh and don't worry I know where to get the good spuds ![]()
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I used to see the growers semi's leaving at 4 in the morning when I got to work, not bad for a place that used to start at 8, the night spuds would have been washed graded and bagged by then I usually had a 12 hour day of delivering spuds and onions, so I used to start early with the other 3 drivers, oh the joy of it ![]() |
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Who'd have though opinions would vary this much over the humble spud ![]()
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Did you catch this spud news Rallye Sport? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-...lars/103461744 and https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/20...ages/103368238
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Galati's still not off the hook for me, in a bit more spud news after 50 odd years the Wanneroo Markets site which he holds a stake in is up for sale. They've just been flogging the place for years with no maintenance to the point it is almost ready to be condemned. And for bonus points all the smaller growers and spud shed competition will loose their stalls and livelyhoods with it. What a top bloke ![]()
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Hmm https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/crops/ho...ables/potatoes
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