>Goodbye everyone working at Woolies, Coles and Aldi.
An international fund manager who claims to have been briefed on Amazon’s expansion plans into Australia says it wants to “destroy” the local retail industry upon its launch next year.
“We spoke to the guy rolling out Amazon’s business here in Australia and in his words: ‘We are going to destroy the retail environment in Australia’,” Watermark Funds Investment chief investment officer Justin Braitling said, as reported in The AFR’s Chanticleer column today.
The investment executive said that Amazon would open distribution and performance centres in every state in 2017 and will have both general and fresh items ready to go upon launch.
“They will also be putting physical stores on the ground which I don’t think anyone knows about,” he told the AFR.
“These will mainly be in regional areas because fulfilment is a lot harder in regional areas than in the cities.”
Good, Woolies and Coles treat their workers like shit and are the original chokeholders of small businesses. There's always a bigger fish.
Ethan Walker
Fucken oath mate
Josiah Collins
This is true. I'm keen to see Woolies and Coles get destroyed but is Amazon going to better for Aussies? Seems like we will be seeing massive shutdowns of supermarkets across Australia.
I don't care about the companies but that's a lot of jobs gone.
Nathan Campbell
>tfw Australian companies destroy local New Zealand companies, but then an American company comes and destroys them. Karma's a bitch.
Liam Baker
>(((Australian companies)))
Aiden Gutierrez
I have always envied America for having access to Amazon. You can buy ANYTHING on there and get it sent to you fast.
Of course at the end of the day it is actually not a good thing. Materialism never actually satisfies, and the processes which lead to something like Amazon and its business model are fundamentally alienating and destructive to society.
No, we do not want that crap here.
Jose Ortiz
Yeah the material would increase and people would go outside less but it would be 30% cheaper. Overall I see it as a bad thing though.
Xavier Jackson
Amazon is already here.
Amazon Web Services has an office in Exhibition Street in Melbourne.
In terms of brick and mortar, there's really not much left to compete with. Book chains and other media stores are gone with the exception of JB Hifi.
Man, 'member BORDERS though? That shit was good. Back in 2008, I'd roam the books at the end of a week at uni. And the range was unmatched. Not even Readings could compete.
I credit that store for cultivating my political and economic interests.
Let 'em compete with grocers. Aldi is fairly new anyway..
Ethan Clark
I miss borders as well. Was fucking gutted when they closed it down here.
Noah Lee
Dymocks is still around for books iirc
Landon Sanders
Torrenting and kindle ended my book-buying habit.
I can't say I miss it. Books were way too expensive.
I have tens of thousands of books on my PC now. Cost me nothing.
Benjamin Phillips
Good, you aussie scumbags have gotten away with it for too long
Tyler Fisher
I would be incredibly impressed the big 3 constraints on cheaper goods in aus (imo) are shipping, smaller consumer base and exchange rates, if amazon forces change in one of those areas i'm all for it
TFW today after work in the supermarket some woman walked up to me with an intense stare and then mumbled you don't work here when i had to swerve out of her way
Benjamin Sanders
Worst case coles and woolies will merge.
Carter Flores
Say goodbye to decent working conditions and fair wages. Enjoy your forced unpaid 90 minutes a day of waiting in line getting patted down in and out of the warehouse. Your country is fucked now too haha.
Angel Ramirez
Yeah you can get anything from amazon but why would you want to?
Basically everything i've ever bought from them other than books and video games is a cheap piece of Chinese flea market crap; i've literally bought things that have fallen apart by the time they're delivered
Angel Sanchez
No m8 even our conservative politicians won't let workers turn into complete serfs.
You don't understand what it is like in normal countries.
William Hall
>tfw Australia can't have a rebellion because our only weapons are cricket bats
It's a good feel! I love Amazon™ and the jewish religion. Capitalist oligarchies are my favourite politics!
Hudson Taylor
Fuck I miss Borders. They had a big ass shop in the Westfield I go to before they left. Place had awesome books, pretty much of every kind you'd ever want. If it were still here today I don't know how many comics I would have bought. I hope Woolies and Coles get fucked, Aldi's better, even for a Kraut company they have good food miles.
James Allen
Long live Capitalism. Really, this is what you get without market regulations: Oligopolies.
Kayden Peterson
Why did the Jews go to Australia more than New Zealand?
I guess it seems you guys keep them out of government more
Jace Diaz
Fucking Capitalist cunts trying to drive up the cost of living even higher.
REVOLUTION WHEN?
Xavier Watson
>Rule Australia, Australia rules the coons >Strayans never never never will bve slaves
Gabriel James
good, let them do their worst coles and woolies need competition
Ryan Baker
Turning them into a bigger business and creating a bigger gap for success. Big companies will merge to compete with lower prices and survive and small businesses will die.
Aaron Flores
>Why did the Jews go to Australia more than New Zealand?
More money in Australia then NZ. They may be somewhat out of government but they make up like 60% of our top 20 richest people IIRC. 0.5% of the population = 60% of the richest.
A couple are crypto but yeah they dominate in Australia but they are much more behind the scenes than the US.
Robert Foster
nah fuck those krauts.
everytime I go there on my bike there's a smelly kaffir that wants to search my backpack because I'm white and I told him to fuck off once (which is my right because that faggot's not a cop, and they had no reason to suspect me).
now it's a 50/50 chance he's the checkout fag and I'll get refused service. if he is I grab as much shit as I can and say "fine, I'll just leave this with you".
Grayson Torres
you're the reason us melbournians look bad
Eli Walker
we had a goldrush in victoria and now we can't get rid of them.
they're like ants.
Colton Peterson
Be nice he's either ethnic or autistic
Jose Thomas
Good fucking progress we don;t give a shit about your local retailers adapt or get the fuck outtah the way. It's the evolutionary imparitive to progress deal with it.
Christopher Jackson
I refused to let a shop search my bag once and they banned me from the store. Said if they saw me there again it would be trespassing and they would call the police.
I hadn't even stolen anything.
Nathan Brown
Do you even know what board you're on
Benjamin Robinson
aldi's full of fucking poor ethnics, though. last time i went i saw a gypo with her dad getting a literal trolley-full of noodles. same with chinks. both of them want to plague every first world country
Brandon Scott
>trolley-full of noodles Which brand?
m8 you should see Coles when they have a special on frozen ducks. Chinks everywhere loading up.
Hudson Reyes
I'm from Gold Coast m8
What, are you some mind of fucking cappie?
Noah Butler
I've smashed too many asian chicks to have an opinion on that one.
Dominic Adams
Just shits me because I'm a good customer and I'm very social with the staff and I don't steal, and I'm white.
Henry Garcia
The thing is they say it is their policy to search bags ... but they don't search everyone so when they pick you and you have seen them let other people go without being searched it makes you feel targeted and like they think you are a dishonest person.
They should either search everyone or no-one.
Carson Kelly
Get over it. It's a condition of entry. If you haven't stolen anything, just open the fucking bag.
Zachary King
im glad this is happening
Kevin Peterson
>tfw every Australian poster is an asian pussy slayer except me
How
Wyatt White
I'd die before I submit to such petty tyranny and incivility.
Elijah Rogers
fuck idk, fantastic or some shit? definitely not ramen. It's basically the cheapest food you can eat if you don't know how to cook. it depends, capitalism has proven to be better in larger, more populated metropolitan countries. Communism has its place in more community orientated, ordered, smaller states.
Jordan Perry
that's a bootlicker mentality, "condition of entry" is a load of shit: it's been shot down in court multiple times, my bag is full of perfectly legal dragon dildoes, shoplifters put items down their pants too, and I'm never going to open my bag to people that can't tell me what they think I stole/aren't smart enough to make a plausible accusation.
Chase Sanchez
Are kindles any good, I have shitloads on books on my PC but have to print them out like an old man to read them freely. The ink costs a fortune.
David Cook
Christ, COMMUNISM, THE WAY MARX INTENDED, HAS NEVER BEEN ATTEMPTED BEFORE.
CAPITALISM IS A SHIT THING THAT CAUSES DISTRESS AMONG ITS WORKERS AKA SLAVES
REEEEE
Xavier Carter
OI CROIKEY THAT BANGER DINGO WAllLLABE CHAZWOZZA
Noah Jenkins
>Are kindles any good m8 I was so sceptical at first. I was a full-on "I want the experience of holding a real paper book" fag.
But once you start using a kindle you never go back. They are great.
Adam Garcia
I have a job, I'm big because I'm from the country, and I wouldn't say pussy slayer: getting a couple of dates in with the occasional girl from work isn't that hard.
Justin Morales
>I'm big because I'm from the country What did you mean by this remark? big in what way?
Brandon Watson
any country on this board has a better reputation than yours. fuck, even india
Nathan Cruz
Fucking sold. Cheers m8. Also just for being a top cunt you know those lists of "Essential readings", this link contains all of them so have at it if you're running short. Have a good one m8.
like a head taller and 30 kilos heavier than 80% of the blokes I work with.
I don't know where my benis stacks up.
Elijah Clark
>Amazon has announced Prime in China and is now going to Australia >Still losing $10+ a day on my AMZN stock
Fuck this gay market
Oliver Torres
Fuck off fucking Canada this is an austhread.
Leafs not welcome
Parker Kelly
>30 kilos heavier than 80% of the blokes I work with That doesn't sound like a good thing m8. City people are mostly fat.
Asher Wood
You're a big guy.
Charles Morales
these guys are twigs and the workplace is like 80% women. if anything I'm underachieving.
Robert Morris
>Just shits me because I'm a good customer and I'm very social with the staff and I don't steal, and I'm white.
I've noticed store security guards that are Indian or Black love to pick on whites when they check their bags and let other non-whites through. It's like payback for them.
Oliver Rogers
just flop it out and ask if they like what they see
Jacob Campbell
About fucking time we got Amazon here, so much cool shit that i can't buy because of stupid warranty issues.
Landon Sanchez
You do more phyical labour when you live in the country when you are a kid. You have to lift heavy shit around the farm for your dad all the time. And genetically farmers have to be bigger than urban scum so their is selection for bigger people to work on farms.
Luis Evans
I couldn't do that! I'm a lonely stoner not a confident guy!
Dominic Evans
Fuck off back to leftypol, you absolute loser.
Henry Peterson
Good. Coles to go under, fucking hate those cunts. Worked there for a year while studying.
It's fucking chaos. >Every department basically operates as its own business, zero communication. >Not a single thing got cleaned EVER, until last year when they brought in Coles services. >Extremely understaffed, if they had a day under predicted sales, they'd just put less casuals on the next day to make up for it making it even more understaffed. >There was never any trollies because they forced the trolley cunts to take only 7 at a time up the travelator but refused to put more than one person on at a time.
Getting angry just thinking about that bullshit.
Gavin Watson
Woolies, Aldi and Coles will get plenty of notice, because it takes years to get all that planning through. Its why Coles and Woolies were prepared when Aldi expanded into WA and SA - they had years of warning.
Hudson Lee
>Coles and Woolies were prepared when Aldi expanded into WA and SA Prepared in what way? They will still get caned.
Sebastian Murphy
Aldi is better than Woolies and Coles. I don't want fancy shit. I just want quality food for cheap. Only downside is Aldi gets flooded with non-whites and it's hell on earth to interact with them.
A muslim woman in front of me at Aldi made the checkout chick disinfect the conveyor belt before she used it because it wasn't Halal.
Took about 6 minutes while we all were waiting in line.
James Williams
This is only going to exacerbate the youth unemployment shit.
There's almost nowhere for high school kids to get jobs anymore, no wonder half of you are neet autists
Leo Hernandez
Amazon is a pretty big guy huh?
Oliver Taylor
>There's almost nowhere for high school kids to get jobs anymore, no wonder half of you are neet autists
The jobs for high school kids are now all taken by immigrants. A high school job is great to get kids ready for the real world. Now they just play video games and jack off.
Charles Butler
boycot amazon they aint takin over ma safeway
Adam Ross
>tfw
John Carter
>safeway
i didn't even know these still existed, they were like lower than good old franklins.
Mason Young
>high schooler getting a job
The minimum standard education for a white man is a bachelors.
Owen Perez
Yeah, but not for several more years. Red tape will allow Woolies and Coles to strategise before Amazon enter the scene in any substantial way.
Colton Gutierrez
>people happy Australian businesses are going to be destroyed >people happy Australia is just an economic battleground between US and China I wouldn't mind so much if Australia made shitloads of money out of it, but we won't.
Nathan Carter
Woolies has shit selection and horrid bogans shop at my local ones as well as abbos and shit fuck woolies Homeschooler here i was ahead of the curve
Lucas Williams
they're a bunch of cunts fuck em
Caleb Sanders
>great to get kids ready for the real world This.
>american education
Connor Mitchell
Hope Harvey Norman goes out of business.
Brayden Nguyen
Such is the thing with Capitalism, the strong fight over trade and end up destroying the smaller business' in the process. Soon there will be one big company placing monopolies on necessities unless WE REVOLT NOW
Logan Hughes
You are a fucking retard mate. I hope you like only buying imported food. Fuckhead.
Carter Rogers
Amazon, like most US companies that expand here will break a bunch of laws and get wrecked by the ACCC.
Wyatt Parker
This, I fucking hate that loopy old cunt.
Carter Miller
what i was working after school since 14 u aspie
Ian Gray
He means whilst in school, dumbass.
Brayden Collins
>Destroy retail
So...Literally no jobs will be left?
Top kek.
Nathaniel Richardson
>Need competition
>Literally the lowest grocery prices in the world
Our supermarkets are cheaper than the fucking U.S.
Food isn't going to get any cheaper - Well, as long as they are selling from shops.
(which it appears Amazon isn't, so...hoo boy)
Jaxon Ramirez
>Woolworths is told Costco and Aldi are coming
>By huge warehouse store spaces
>Ah...smart move.
>...They put in fucking hardware shops
Yeah, real prepared.
Jonathan Carter
>not wanting drones to deliver your anime figures
Sad
Levi Wilson
>bumpkin trying to sound superior to cityfags because he lives in the fucking country
Ryan Bennett
Except for our PM
Christopher Roberts
Redpilled movie thread died before I could shitpost. Do you nerds want a redpilled audiobook to listen to? I (((purchased))) this one from amazon a few weeks ago since I wanted to see if it was any good in audiobook form, and it was. I promised some Australian user I'd upload it, but the thread died before I figured out how to pirate amazon's shit.
book is: private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner, James Hogg. Last 75% of book is extremely rewarding, so stick through the first half if it feels kinda boring.
Also, what are some half-decent audiobooks? I can make a new audible account with my other credit card to steal four or so more audiobooks at some point.