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Why Storage World Is A Not A Very Smart Business
COMMENT: What is it about Australia and the lack of service by retailers? In the US and the UK retailers go out of their way to build databases of customers and in some cases they even issue them with barcodes or cards so that regular customers get priority service.

Feds Do Nothing As Banks Hurt Small Business
COMMENT: One has to seriously question whether the current Federal Government actually understands small medium business and that right now thousands of SMB organisations are starved of cash because of high interest rates and a refusal by banks to loan money to SMB organisations.

COMMENT: Should JB Hi Fi Sell Or Stick It Out?
The 61% increase in revenue and the 70% increase in profits by JB Hi Fi bode well for the consumer electronic industry. It also sends a clear message that consumers are changing their buying habits with many of them prepared to spend money on games, new TV’s and notebooks than over fashion items or the occasional holiday.

Pioneer Hopes For Beijing Olympics TV Boom
According to Pioneer, its KURO plasma TVs have become such ‘hot property’ that it has completely sold out all stock of its 50 inch 8th generation KURO HD plasma TV, for the remainder of the product’s lifecycle in Australia.