Bike boom - is it over?

[esCape-ist]

well clearly the cost of cycling is not only an issue in RSA

[DieselnDust]

6 hours ago, esCape-ist said:

well clearly the cost of cycling is not only an issue in RSA

we're not affected by BREXIT but we are affected by shipping costs, Durban port backlog that increases demurrage costs and small market issues like distributors not attracting as large discounts as European or NA distributors and lastly, The Cartel

[gemmerbal]

has anyone mentioned that the MoreCorp Lifestyle centre is opening soon in Parow/N1 City? this brings the Cyclelab and Proshop stores together in the greater CoCT metropole. they apparently bought the building where the church used to be. 

[Hairy]

3 hours ago, gemmerbal said:

has anyone mentioned that the MoreCorp Lifestyle centre is opening soon in Parow/N1 City? this brings the Cyclelab and Proshop stores together in the greater CoCT metropole. they apparently bought the building where the church used to be. 

Walked the site the other day .... it is BIG, but have not seen it fitted, or in the process of being fitted out as yet.
Question is, will they be as K@K at service and advice on the sales floor as the one in Town was.

[MORNE]

No…just getting started😏

 

[Hairy]

1 minute ago, MORNE said:

No…just getting started😏

 

bloody e-bikes blowing up 

[Frosty]

7 minutes ago, MORNE said:

No…just getting started😏

We're having a fire sale!

1x 160mm and 1x 180mm disk rotor, mint condition, hardly used
Has been heat treated to extra strength

[MORNE]

47 minutes ago, Frosty said:

We're having a fire sale!

1x 160mm and 1x 180mm disk rotor, mint condition, hardly used
Has been heat treated to extra strength

Black on black looks mint 👌

[splat]

10 hours ago, MORNE said:

No…just getting started😏

 

 

 

That'll buff right out

[DieselnDust]

Be a self starter, build it yourself 

[Ispeed_V]

With the new rates tariffs now being in effect, it has just added more financial pressures to the monthly household budgets.

As a household of 7 (the 4 of us and our domestic and her husband and son), we are already looking at an extra R1500/mnth.

The squeeze is just getting worse and worse.

[UnclePolli]

inflation is nothing more than corporate greet it seems and everyone is using an excuse to jump on it.  besides all the good things CL have done for me..    this one did not go down well.  

[Hairy]

9 minutes ago, UnclePolli said:

inflation is nothing more than corporate greet it seems and everyone is using an excuse to jump on it.  besides all the good things CL have done for me..    this one did not go down well.  

I have always found it amusing how when a company buys something to sell for R10, then prices go up if they have to buy new stock would be R1, so the stock they had on the shelf then goes up by R1 .... so they making double the profit off the old stock and then the usual profit on the new stock

[dave303e]

22 minutes ago, UnclePolli said:

inflation is nothing more than corporate greet it seems and everyone is using an excuse to jump on it.  besides all the good things CL have done for me..    this one did not go down well.  

you should be using Squirrel nut butter anyway so no loss

Edited August 12, 2022 by dave303e

[The Ouzo]

2 minutes ago, Hairy said:

I have always found it amusing how when a company buys something to sell for R10, then prices go up if they have to buy new stock would be R1, so the stock they had on the shelf then goes up by R1 .... so they making double the profit off the old stock and then the usual profit on the new stock

not saying this is what happened here, but how do you propose a retailer handles the following situation ?

5 items left of product xyz. At the old cost price product xyz retails at R10.

New stock arrives, but at the new price xyz now needs to retail for R11. 

xyz supplier requires minimum of 10 items of xyz to be on the shelf at all times. But you cant have 5 of them prices at R10 at 5 at R11.

[bleedToWin]

10 minutes ago, ouzo said:

not saying this is what happened here, but how do you propose a retailer handles the following situation ?

5 items left of product xyz. At the old cost price product xyz retails at R10.

New stock arrives, but at the new price xyz now needs to retail for R11. 

xyz supplier requires minimum of 10 items of xyz to be on the shelf at all times. But you cant have 5 of them prices at R10 at 5 at R11.

Obviously they should list them for R10.50.
And then when it's down to five on the shelf they should restock and reprice to R10.75

I say obviously because the retailer is a non-profit that sells products based on an intrinsic value calculated from production and distribution costs and the only sensible margins added is solely to cover retail costs. Right?