My old haircut was 20 bucks. Just a basic haircut. Occasionally I would
go in for a neck shave ( with the cut throat of course) and they would do
it for nothing. Even when I offered them.
The new place I go to reckons there's a lot of these 10 dollar haircut places
opening up.
Wouldn't mind a cold brew while I waited, that sounds alright.
Don't know what happened to the old owners, went in one day and the place looked
the same but they where gone. They always had awesome movie and nostalgia type
prints and posters on the walls and changed them all the time.
Barbers in my area have an association. They have increased the prices 60% in the past 2 years. I sense the barbers in your area have created an association. They usually force everyone to come under a single price umbrella so that everyone gets a fare share of business. The old couple had values and I am sure they disliked the way the new system was supposed to be and hence preferred to move out of way.
I'm getting a bit sick of substandard shitty service these days and items. I have a classic muscle car
(only 500 made) and took two of the wheels in to get tires fitted. picked them up damaged.
Someone had dropped them on the front face and scratched up the front of the wheels.
I Paid 800 bucks for a new computer that crashes all the time, amongst other things it does.
Been back to the shop about 4 times and have given up on it.
Bought mum a push bike for Christmas and decided to rebuild the hubs and crank and put good
grease and lube in there. Several bearings where missing.
I'm getting sick of paying for rubbish, or buying new things and having to repair them.
Even at work we get in replacement parts even nuts and bolts which wont go together.
Zinc bolts and nuts galvanised so cheaply the bolts are unusable. Some of them aren't
cheap either.
I rebuild heavy duty coolers/radiators with new cores, and more often then not have to repair them
or solder them properly before I assemble it, sadly a lot of them are made here.
Occasionally we will get one from china if were doing an aluminium unit and the quality
is better than here. Pretty sad. Pretty sad having to patch up shit, that a day or two
ago was in a factory being made "new"
It's like everything's crap, there's no work ethic, and no one cares.
Welcome to the new world I guess.
Good work ethic is all but gone. I blame the phones. And parents or bosses being too shitty.
Its because cheap chinese manufacturing has %ed each and every one on this globe. When someone offers something for dead cheap, it de-stabilises all other businesses. When businesses are stressed the first thing they loose is quality and go into survival mode. All small repair shops, or industries run around the globe are middle class people and not multi millionaire empires to buffer chinese impact.
I very well know the frustration that you are going through repairing a lot of things bought new because I go through that same shit
Here is what happens in India and the psycology at each step of this un branded goods business.
1] There are big importers that import stuff from china because it makes them huge amount of money. These importers have a pure capitalist psycology. They are socially irresponsible and simply want to relax and see their turnover and profits increase. They import what is cheap/rubbish because they have to invest less on these things and when they dump it, they get a good rate of return on their investment.
2] Sub wholesellers across the country buy from the above mentioned big importers which are located close to the shipping ports. They buy from them because of the same capitalist psycology of making a big rate of return. These to have the same socially irresponsible relaxed attitude of making money.
3] Retailers buy from these sub wholesellers because they make a whooping 50- 300% profit in most cases selling these goods to the consumers. This group is the most money hungry of all. If I as a manufacturer go to them with my product, first thing they will ask is a huge discount on Max retail price because they are used to making a huge rate of return on their investment. Its a habbit hard to let go even if its erroding the local business.
4]chinese manufacturers know, even if they give sub standard and 3rd grade quality, there is a capitalist supply chain waiting to buy their rubbish and dump it on the consumers. This helps them reduce their own investment by buying hopeless re processed raw material.
5] How could I ignore the bankers! These a**holes do not supply the manufacturing industry with the right amount of finance needed because lesser the money sinks into the market, more control they have. Manufacturing is a bloody money hungry business and if stressed, it straight away impacts the quality of product. Majority of those chinese manufacturers don't have an easy job. Most of them are neck deep in loans and are underfunded and in this situation they have to face stiff internal competetion.
6] The consumers face the real problem that all of these a**holes in this supply chain make up. We do not get choices because the retailers don't give us many. We do not get quality products, because quality products don't fill the supply chain pockets. We pay for something once and we pay for it once again and again and again with frustration. We do not voice our problems strongly. We don't come together and fight back. We simply move on without taking action.
When we are given sub standard products, the retailers are saying "Hey!, I want you to take our sorrow on your shoulders". In a more deeper sense, we work for 8 hours, pay all the money we earn in those 8 hours for a product so that product serves us for couple of years, but instead that product fails in months. So again we work for 8 hours and pay for it. This is called going in DEBT!
We all are systematically being put in debt. Finance is just one part of this whole story. Is there a method to put into numbers the frustration and stress that we all go through? Is there a statistical chart that says, so and so many people have gone through so much of frustration and stress which has ultimately reduced their life expectancy? Then why are there charts showing how much profit/loss banks made? Are banks more important than our lives?
How many of us keep silent when products fail and don't give us the returns that they should have given us. If the whole supply chain is worried about their rate of return, why we as consumers are so loosely guarded about our rate of return?
In one or the other way we all are adjusting. Every middle class citizen is under stress in a direct or indirect way of manipulation and most of us are unaware. Maximum population on this planet will fall in the middle or lower middle class category. This class is the heart of economy composed of small manufacturers, repair shops, service providers etc. If this class is stressed to survive a competetion from china, how can they give quality? This is why bosses are stressed, they in turn stress the employees who have their level of contentment affected.
Capitalism has ripped out happiness from every one of us in some or the other way in varying quantity over our life time. It bloodies us in a silent way and we don't realise it. This is our modern %up capitalist world
