Mood:
caffeinatedTopic: Business
This blog told me a few days ago that I was out of disc space and I couldn't even edit a previous entry. And now it is letting me post with abandon!
Anyway, lots of anticipation in BC and wayward eyes towards the introduction of a "Harmonized Sales Tax" here in BC. I have to admit,the actual idea of a single 12% percent tax on the bill and at checkout is gratifying in a way and somewhat, if I can get away with this in the same sentence as a tax: tantalizing.
But this whole public relations maneuver and showboating a promised savings to consumers I think is a little like wrapping a smelly fish.
I remain convinced that if the government were not so plagued with a general sense of mistrust in far too many corners of government, the new tax would be a little like voters and consumers happily taking some fruit flavored cough medicine, not the bitter pill they are taking now. Accepting it feels like a moral compromise (even if it isn't).
But anway, apart from the most basic opinion about that as a consumer, the tie in for todays entry is that this morning as I tuned into Voiceprint on my television (my trade secret is Voiceprint. I urge every reader to support this enterprise. There is no more pleasurable way of keeping up to date and informed than having the news read to you. ) a story ran about internet shopping.
To save you the trouble of wading through my commentary on this story, the link is directly below this paragraph.
Happy shopping!
Internet shaping the way people buy, retailers told- - --
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Personally my self, I find the best way to 'save' cash while shopping (inevitably to spend on other things; I find) is to go downtown or the mall without my wallet or debit card and make a mental list of which store is offering the best deals on the things I really need. The return trip is mostly worth it (I proffer a hesitation only because at the moment I habituate a city 1/10th the size of a large city like Vancouver.)
and not only 'prevents' impulse buys (and sometime buyer remorse) but also puts a stop gap mechanism in "shoppers ouch" when you discover your best bargain-lol,.....advertised even cheaper later on at a different section of the shopping-sphere.
Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY) has launched what it says is Canada’s first online financial management tool integrated into an online banking system.
It's hard to disagree that the Internet is changing and shaping the way we think about shopping and buying things.
Meanwhile, lest we be considered dozers at the wheel when it comes to feeling alive and awake about climate change, Gary Mason of the Globe and Mail offers this thoughtful summarization about how the spirited future of business might be kept alive and well even as the new models of doing business and reducing our collective impacts on Mother Nature are thrust upon us.
The way he puts it, the key is: to just be really,really sneaky. And that's using government as an example. There's still money to be made yet.
But be careful for cripes sake...what if consumers got word.
"A strange silence has fallen over much of the climate-change debate, .." - Gary Mason
Carbon trading system will have profound implications for B.C. businesses
