Calif Bill wrote:

Former Swiss customer of mine was one of the largest newspaper typesetting
equipment suppliers in Europe.

That's nice.

Look at the numbers: services accounts for about
double the percentage of "industry" in the Swiss
economy, and a substantial part of "industry" is
service anyway.

Bill

"Jonathan Ball" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:


Who's the twit?

You.


http://www.about.ch/economy/index.html#CH_Eco_Sectors

Looks like they have a metal and machine industry plus the watch,
pocketknife and textile industries.

They are not primarily a manufacturing economy.
Services account for nearly double the value of
"industry", and not all of the "industry" category is
manufacturing.

http://www.indexmundi.com/switzerlan...by_sector.html

Geee, they need to try harder, you'd think if they are as evil as people
here claim, they should have 7/7 of the market rather than a measly 1/7...


"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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I guess Wal-mart is falling on hard times. The business report for sales
on
Friday for the Country was an amazing $7.5 Billion. A record. Wal-mart
only took in $1.5 Billion is sales. About 1/7 of all the Xmas shopping
done
the day after Thanksgiving.

I guess Wal-mart is falling on hard times. The business report for sales on
Friday for the Country was an amazing $7.5 Billion. A record. Wal-mart
only took in $1.5 Billion is sales. About 1/7 of all the Xmas shopping done
the day after Thanksgiving.

That report indicates business at WalMart is up.

WalMart has been taking in 1/8 of all non-automotive retail dollars spent in
the US. Moving up to 1/7 is "progress" :-(

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:35:01 +0000, Jonathan Ball wrote:

Calif Bill wrote:

Former Swiss customer of mine was one of the largest newspaper
typesetting equipment suppliers in Europe.

That's nice.

Look at the numbers: services accounts for about double the percentage of
"industry" in the Swiss economy, and a substantial part of "industry" is
service anyway.

I would suggest that does make them a manufacturing economy. That
breakdown is equivalent to Germany's, and only slightly less than Japan's.
We on the other hand are a service economy.

Germany:
industry 33.4%, agriculture 2.8%, services 63.8% (1999)

Japan:
agricultu 1.4% industry: 30.9% services: 67.7% (2001 est.)

USA:
agricultu 2% industry: 18% services: 80% (2002)

Numbers taken from CIA Factbook:

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

In article ,
says...

Geee, they need to try harder, you'd think if they are as evil as people
here claim, they should have 7/7 of the market rather than a measly 1/7...

You eager to live in the a Communist country? Would you like to work
for Walmart too? Not me.

In article .net,
says...
Don White wrote:

Tell Wenger & Victorinox that they don't manufacture anything.
Why is 'Made in Switzerland' stamped on my Swiss Army watch?

Don't be a twit. I didn't say they didn't manufacture
anything. What percentage of their economy depends on
manufacturing, and what major things do they
manufacture? You don't seriously believe they enjoy
one of the highest living standards in the world based
on the export pocketknives, do you?

No, when they run out of money to float the fake, incredibly inflated
economy they run in Switzerland, they pry open another unclaimed vault
of gold yanked from Jews teeth.

In article .net,
says...

I have lived there, for a year, and I've visited
several times. It's an outstanding place.

What happened, couldn't afford to live there? Outstanding it may be but
it's economy is way inflated. Poverty is $50K a year there.

jps wrote:

In article .net,
says...
Don White wrote:

Tell Wenger & Victorinox that they don't manufacture anything.
Why is 'Made in Switzerland' stamped on my Swiss Army watch?

Don't be a twit. I didn't say they didn't manufacture
anything. What percentage of their economy depends on
manufacturing, and what major things do they
manufacture? You don't seriously believe they enjoy
one of the highest living standards in the world based
on the export pocketknives, do you?

No, when they run out of money to float the fake, incredibly inflated
economy they run in Switzerland, they pry open another unclaimed vault
of gold yanked from Jews teeth.



Yeouch! I was thinking that, but you had the cojones to say it, as it
were. You're absolutely right, of course...a good deal of what is modern
Switzerland is built upon what was stolen from Jews by the Germans and
hidden in the land of wris****ches and chocolate with the complicity of
Swiss bankers. And much of it is still hidden by the Swiss bankers.

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"RJ" wrote in message
m...


A store with most of the mundane things you need day to day to run
your
household. One stop to buy a wide variety of things. Open late, as
much as 24/7. How is that not a concept?

Any decent supermarket chain carries all those things.

They have plumbing supplies, tools, and clothing like WM?

I'd venture a guess that most folks don't buy hardware on every shopping
trip, unless they're in the middle of a project. And, it seems we have
different definitions of "the mundane things". To me, that meant "things I
buy every single week". Yeah...if you're fixing your sink, hardware is
mundane, compared to a Rolex watch.


They'll charge you a
bit more for Rubbermaid storage containers, but in return, they'll have
produce that wasn't driven over by the truck.

You have a real hard-on for Walmart.

Uh oh. This sounds like a discussion of politics. Man sees something ugly,
reports it, other man figures it was a false report because first man had an
attitude. So: I walk into WM and find I can't buy lettuce because everything
they have looks like lettuce you'd left in your own refrigerator for too
long. I go to a grocery store and find 4 kinds of lettuce, 95% of it in
really nice condition. I'm hallucinating???

Handle winter squash roughly and it'll survive. Do the same with tender
vegetables and the product is worthless except as compost. Based on what I
see, WM doesn't train its people to handle produce correctly. In a perfect
world, only gardeners would be hired to work with produce. Until then,
stores have to train their people.

Finally, I notice in two WM stores here that about 1/3 of the groceries
don't have unit pricing stickers on the shelves. That's another reason
customers think they're getting a low price. Unless you walk around with a
calculator, it's tricky to compare two jars of salsa, on of which contains
17.38 oz and the other 32.50 oz. Real grocery stores here have unit pricing
on everything, and it's NOT required by law in this county.

"Calif Bill" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I guess Wal-mart is falling on hard times. The business report for sales
on
Friday for the Country was an amazing $7.5 Billion. A record. Wal-mart
only took in $1.5 Billion is sales. About 1/7 of all the Xmas shopping
done
the day after Thanksgiving.

I'm not disputing the fact that they sell a lot. I'm saying that for many
products, they are NOT cheaper. They've just created an image. Tell me this:
Faced with a 5 mile commercial strip packed with weekend traffic, are you
going to go back and forth between WM and two supermarkets to determine
whether you're getting the best prices? Of course not. This is what WM
counts on.