Perth trading hours -

I think we as consumers are just plain lazy.

We want it all under one roof at the cheapest possible prices. So long as the fruit n veggies look good it must be good. Plus we want the convenience of being able to go at any time to these places to satisfy our demand.

**** coles and woolies i say. I refuse to give them any of my dollars. I prefer to perhaps pay a little more and give to my local fishmonger, local butcher local bottle shpop etc. As time has gone by they now know who i am and even offer me a couple of quid off, better cuts free bones for the dog etc etc etc

Got my weekly supply again this morning and cooked up organic free range eggs on organic bread for breakfast with a side of fruit salad. yum yum

all fresh all in season all ****ing delicious

You should be more organised.
You should shop once a week
You should shop at markets.
I will never let you be.

Got a really good giggle out of that!

All good if you don't work at Coles or Woollies or any other shopping centre that is gonna be forced to extend the trading hours.

Gone are weekends away with your family, footy with the kids, social activities and the like. As an employee you get no choice. You cannot say no to shifts and the penalty rates previously available for weekends slowly slip out the window.

The only beneficiaries are the two big retailers.

If this was your (rather low paid) industry that was changing and you saw the end of weekends and public holidays, I think you'd be a bit pissed off.

thats ok you dont have to work sunday... or monday or tuesday or wednesday and your late night shopping shift is gone so you gonna have to pay for daycare that day while you do the day shift...

but dont worry I wont sack you...

I will just not roster you hours as you are a casual!!! so you wont get any holidays when i finnally get you to quit and employ some one who doesnt make such public acts of defiance who will work when i tell them and we will all be happy.

insert sarcasm and rather difficuly industrial relations conundrum here

Been there done that..

You should be more organised. - Na, work to many hours.
You should shop once a week. - Im not that organised
You should shop at markets. - Markets????? Where?
I will never let you be. - Why? Im sleeping! P!ss off.

Welcome to the East Coast Trading company.

There has not been penalty rates in Victoria for years. Wifey and I both put ourselves through Uni with part time jobs that just had a flat hourly rate. Nothing extra for late nights, christmas trade or weekends. Vic had/ has extended hours which are awesome when your juggling. Open until midnight most nights and 9pm on weekends.

Did my time in Perth twice and having gone through the 1 late night and the Saturday shopping riot and you can f_cking keep it. Shelves raided by 8.30am and no restocking as everyone is running a friggen till. Now reside in Queensland and they seem to have a pretty good mix.

Perth aint the country town is used to be. The population is ridiculous and extended hours will support the need to spread people out over the week. As unbelievable as it sounds, if you live in Perth, you will survive. Like everything you adapt.

Don't like working weekends? Get a different job. Don't bleed that the boss is making you work weekends because you are CASUAL. By definition that is what casual is.

I feel comfortable saying the above because for years I worked whatever shifts were going to get ahead. Gave up Christmas hols, worked public holidays etc etc. When I started in Engineering I took any work going, ended up overseas and interstate. .But in the end I finally got the lifestyle I wanted. With 2 kids under the belt I can afford to take 8 weeks hoilday a year and can choose to work weekends. Strangly enough with the workload, I always end up putting in 6 hours on Saturday mornings anyway... still plenty of time left to take the boy out on his pee wee or the girl out surfing. Again it's all about choice

And don't start me on supporting IGA etc... With 6 bucks for 3 litres of trim milk compared to $3.96 from Coles, they can f_cking jam it...

I love WA. And I used to love the fact we are so isolated.

The down side to this isolation however, is that people from WA forget that there is actually the rest of the world out there... and all these bull**** theories about stuff simply are not true. QLD has sunday trading (and late night trading) and it works fine. There are still independants. I still have a Coles and an IGA side-by-side and both still exist (except that IGA actually has to be competitive now).

Across the road from Coles is a growers market, local butcher and fishmonger. All businesses in operation. I shop at all of these places, but when i get home from work at 6pm, Coles is the only one still open so they get my business at that time.

I'm really going to miss it when i get back to WA. WA is so closed minded sometimes.

I agree.
WA'ers seem to resist any kind of change.

Though i do think it sad that the demise of the local retailer and local market is a shame.
I was in rural Scotland recently where all bar a couple of local shops and the markets have closed being pushed out by sterile, ordinary, boring, soul-less Tesco's.

serves you right for buying 'trim' milk

Dont need it

Been able to live without it for long enough, weekends are for kids sports, footy, cricket or a snorkle for dib dabs if its a lay day. But the biggest reason is its more time for the mrs to spend ya hard earned coin if she has more time to shop.

A tired old line that always comes from the pro daylight saving camp.




You should be so lucky, the challenge will be to buy something that is even produced in Australia. I picked up a box of chopped spinach at coles and surprise surprise it was a product of China.

Initially when extended trading hours were introduced into special tourist precincts, the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce actively promoted this to some fairly big retailers.

One of them was a very large electrical and home store, one of the most vocal proponents of extended trading hours.

The namesake owner was continually saying how WA's retail hours were hampering consumer choice and how people wanted to shop in his stores on Sunday. So they set up shop in the middle of Fremantle (opposite the Town Hall).

Prime position, support from the local business association and they were able to trade 7 days a week. Sounds like a good formula for success and what the owner wanted.

They are no longer there, closed shop as they said there was not enough trade.

Not so much that I don’t get it GF, it’s more that I accept it. You raise no extra valid points that have not been raised here on the East Coast years earlier.

For f_ck sake EVERYTHING changes over time. I’ll summarise the following:

Waiting lists for Kindergardens. (you put them on when they are born)

Waiting Lists for Private HIGH schools (you pay 300 bucks for the privilege of waiting before the kids are born).

Local Doctors not taking any new patients (even if you live in the area).

Local Fruit and Veg Shops changing hands every 4 months because the 3.30am starts are too early. Not surprisingly when I was growing up the same local Italian guy ran out F&V until he shut up shop 20 years later. He wanted better for his kids and no-one wanted to buy an existing business.

Bunnings (owned by Westfarmers) taking over Hardware stores.

Optometrists being outdone by specsavers, Big W etc.

You can apply this to many businesses.

The big 4 banks. Do you bank with credit union?

I know plenty of guys that moved to WA to make Hay while the sun shines. They were lucky because most Perth people were bitching about the influx of expats and eastern state guys and whinging about WA supporting the rest of Australia my guys slid in and got the job done. Works both ways as well, I now have WA crew working over here on CSG projects.

Here’s a question for you: Australian tourism aint doing so good. So do you spend the extra cash and go to Queensland or Broome. No like everyone else, most people spend the money going to Bali because it’s CHEAPER. Hell I did when I lived in Perth.

It’ll all be clearer when you accept that WA will not secede from Australia, your mining Royalties will continue to fund the NATION and no-one is going to run a bloody big trench up your border so no-one can get in.

CUB’s. Good on ‘em. If they are willing to work away from their families and friends to afford their kids what they didn’t have then more power to them.

Funny thing is, I support locally where I can… Extended hours are nothing more than a convenience.

I wanna get down in the brussels when i get my cabbage