Comments on: Erratic Supplies, Outrageous Pricing…

By: Blaise

Blaise — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:42:38 +0000

Bought plums yesterday at Landmark, the California brand also, and it’s at 170/kilo.. Also got nectarines at 180/kilo..

By: maria

maria — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:34:02 +0000

there always charmin at unimart in greenhills. that particular supermarket never disappoints. :)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:33:12 +0000

our penchant for the guiness book of world records exposes our national insecurity, period. Get real everyone, having 10 records for dopey categories does not make up for a huge proportion of the population that doesn’t work harder, do better, think smarter and serve better, etc…

By: millet

millet — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:05:06 +0000

agree..and it doesn’t stop at pricing. it’s the whole service consciousness thing. i say, enough of all the pinoy excitement at being the Guiness world record holder for the longest, the biggest, the widest whatever….i really don’t understand the penchant for record-holding. I just wish they’d spend the money on service consciousness training for ALL stockholders, owners and staff,(and their relatives) of all institutions – restaurants, malls,airlines, hospitals, palengkes, balut vendors, BIR, police, etc….as the comedian jimmy santos would say, “every all!”. consistently good service is bound to endear them to the locals, bring in more visitors and investors and get us in the record books faster than the longest, largest, widest balut penoy in the world.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:04:03 +0000

mojito drinker, I bought my last supply at Subic! mita, for some reason, all of the local TPs seem to be made of less good paper. BTW, all local toilet paper uses imported pulp/paper as well…it just seems to be thinner. It seems frivolous, but dinner guests once challenged me to pick out my charmin from three different TPs BLINDFOLDED and I did it much to their amazement, they have never questioned my preference for Charmin again…

By: mojito_drinker

mojito_drinker — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:01:12 +0000

hi MM – another source of charmin (if you’re willng to haul a&*) is clark in pampanga. =)

By: mita

mita — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:45:08 +0000

Why isn’t good quality toilet paper available is the bigger question. I mean does it have to be Charmin which I assume is imported?

The locally-grown produce I can understand the fluctuating prices and availability which depends so much on the weather…but toilet paper? I’m packing me a box or boxes to take back home with me…

By: Maria Clara

Maria Clara — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:17:19 +0000

My dear fellow Citizens and Countrymen, my heart goes to Juan dela Cruz who is the victim of the mendacious machinations of whoever wrote and approved the Constitution of the country and carries them out.

By: Naz

Naz — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:10:01 +0000

When I visited the country last December, I used Charmin TPs as packing materials. It seems that local TPs and paper napkins disintegrate easily.

Wow, those prices are really expensive but then again, compared to prices of produce in Japan they are still cheap. You also pay premium prices in Hawaii especially lemons.

In a farm nearby, plums .89/lbs and .39/lbs if you pick the fruits yourself and you could eat as much as your tummy could hold while picking, lol…. sorry!

Offtopic:
I enjoy your posts on Italian travel. Outstanding market/produce shots. Thanks for the insights, we are booked on a 12-day best of Italy Globus travel tour in October.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:53:32 +0000

Thank goodness my rear end acquired a preference for three-ply Joy bathroom tissues only! hehehe

But I totally understand what you mean, especially in the supply of fresh produce. It seems you can’t get anything WHEN you actually want it. You’ll have to leave it to chance, and luck I guess. That way, you’ll be pleasantly surprised when you find good produce! I think this is the reason why we are so much happier than our supply-chain savvy brethren in the 1st world- you find good quality capsicums and it feels like you won the lottery!!!