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FinanceAs a standard ’80’s kid, I was raised with the massive hair, blue eye shadow and the ridiculous (and great!) tv specials, like Fraggle Rock. Now as a late 20-some thing, married to an early 30-something, I started hunting at the consumption and spending habits about me and was faced with a want to do it differently. This weblog is about a true (ahemm…badass) couple working blue-collar and non-profit jobs. If we can find a way to save, so can you!

My parents in Stirling have had the Aquashield therapy – a DISASTER! The roof leaked badly afterwards and the inside ceiling collapsed two months ago, causing chaos. Aquashield’s ten-year guarantee is not worth its name. The staff look to be incompetent or crooked. The Operations Manager, a Mr McCracken, by no means returns calls, is always in a meeting, on the telephone or out of the workplace. His superior, a Mr John Gorman, has the exact same meeting-itis illness and lacks the courtesy to contact consumers. There are no direct get in touch with information to anybody in charge, just to the telephonists who promise to get their boss to telephone back. Telephonists Anne-Marie and Julie are either scared of losing their jobs or are as incompetent as their bosses. They’re very ‘nice’ till you start to make demands – then they’re rude.

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On its face, the same approach is being adopted in the arrangements with on-line sellers, such as Zalando the brand holder is freed from keep its personal on-line platform. But query whether the brand holder may be providing away too much manage in the name of sparing itself from the need to have to invest in the infrastructure itself. The retort will most likely be— But we have no selection. Even a behemoth such as Walmart is struggling to successfully operate its on the internet business. Whom am I, a mere minnow in the clothes space?” That may be so, or it might not. What does seem clear is that a brand holder tying itself to the likes of Zalando in this manner could be even far more shackled to the distribution whims of a third party than it was with respect to its brick-and-mortar retailers.