Totally brilliant ideas thread

Lanolin said:
huh I didn't know they were removing knives and scissors but yes
well that is dumb having knives and scissors right out in the open.

Like I told my boss he shouldn't have spray cans on the open shelves but he wouldn't listen. Then he got all upset when someone stole a can.
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I'm just not sure where it ends? You can kill a person (or at least cause serious harm) with almost anything.

I do not know what type of a store this is, but if they sell pencils, screwdrivers, hammers, baseball bats, etc, it is almost the same thing.

Rtm
 
I think things like knives, and spray cans that can be quite dangerous when misused need to be stored safely.

Baseball bats, well, you'd just get those from a sports store.
Hammers, a hardware store.

This happened in a supermarket. I'd expect a supermarket not to have knives right out in the open and spray cans out of reach. Some do sell cigarettes but from behind the checkout counter and it's locked and you have to ask for them.

I think just like anything, you'd child proof and burglar proof and make everything as safe as possible in a public space. For some reason the Countdown supermarkets are always getting hit with violent offenders. Maybe it's because they are Australian owned and were the last to ban plastic bags, when the Pak N'Save had not been using them at all ever since they started. If you bought something from Pak nSave, you just used your own bags or boxes or carried it yourself. They didn't have ten zillion plastic bags given to everyone everytime someone shopped there.

Plus all those plastic bags wold have suffocated someone...if not the fish in the sea.
 
Lanolin said:
I think things like knives, and spray cans that can be quite dangerous when misused need to be stored safely.

Baseball bats, well, you'd just get those from a sports store.
Hammers, a hardware store.

This happened in a supermarket. I'd expect a supermarket not to have knives right out in the open and spray cans out of reach. Some do sell cigarettes but from behind the checkout counter and it's locked and you have to ask for them.

I think just like anything, you'd child proof and burglar proof and make everything as safe as possible in a public space. For some reason the Countdown supermarkets are always getting hit with violent offenders. Maybe it's because they are Australian owned and were the last to ban plastic bags, when the Pak N'Save had not been using them at all ever since they started. If you bought something from Pak nSave, you just used your own bags or boxes or carried it yourself. They didn't have ten zillion plastic bags given to everyone everytime someone shopped there.

Plus all those plastic bags wold have suffocated someone...if not the fish in the sea.
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Good morning.

Ok, not sure what "Countdown supermarkets" are. I am assuming it is the same thing as what we call a "discount" store?

Also, so you think that the violence here is the result of them being owned by Australians and them being the last to ban plastic bags?

rtm
 
rtm3039 said:
Good morning.

Ok, not sure what "Countdown supermarkets" are. I am assuming it is the same thing as what we call a "discount" store?

Also, so you think that the violence here is the result of them being owned by Australians and them being the last to ban plastic bags?

rtm
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haha its a brand of store.
No just saying it didn't happen in Pak n' Save which is NZ owned and operated, and generally are more clued in with what customers here need and want than anything that's owned overseas. (And health and safety regulations).

I think it's less likely to harbour violence because people don't go and attack what they know or love.

For example, overseas mall owners don't really care about putting their considerable profits into the community. They can also say we want you to open all hours (some countdowns were actually open 24/7) never mind putting essential workers at risk. Just so they can have more profits.
 
What I would do is redesign food distribution to local grocery stores and also have regular weekly and daily deliveries of essentials in certain areas, each suburb would have their own food truck that delivers groceries to their doors.

So goodbye supermarket trolleys! (and you would have your own cart or trolley if you needed it, so sick of abandoned trolleys in creeks!)
Then there would be a weekly farmers market for fresh produce so local producers can get their produce to market.
Anything that was surplus could be auctioned, or given to foodbanks and cooked up for free community meals in churches.
 
Lanolin said:
haha its a brand of store.
No just saying it didn't happen in Pak n' Save which is NZ owned and operated, and generally are more clued in with what customers here need and want than anything that's owned overseas. (And health and safety regulations).

I think it's less likely to harbour violence because people don't go and attack what they know or love.

For example, overseas mall owners don't really care about putting their considerable profits into the community. They can also say we want you to open all hours (some countdowns were actually open 24/7) never mind putting essential workers at risk. Just so they can have more profits.
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Hm. Most of our major stores are also opened 24/7.

Rtm
 
Lanolin said:
What I would do is redesign food distribution to local grocery stores and also have regular weekly and daily deliveries of essentials in certain areas, each suburb would have their own food truck that delivers groceries to their doors.

So goodbye supermarket trolleys! (and you would have your own cart or trolley if you needed it, so sick of abandoned trolleys in creeks!)
Then there would be a weekly farmers market for fresh produce so local producers can get their produce to market.
Anything that was surplus could be auctioned, or given to foodbanks and cooked up for free community meals in churches.
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You have that call a very "small town" perspective on most things (not that there is anything wrong with that).

Ok, putting it in perspective, my county (Miami-Dade) is around 3,912 sq. km. Our two main grocery outlets are Publix and Win-Dixie. We have 150 Publix stores and 94 Win-Dixie. Both chains also have pharmacies. We have 14 BJ's, 29 Aldi's and 8 Sam's; All three are wholesale clubs. We have two main pharmacies, with both CVS and Walgreens each having 150 stores.

The above are the well known and popular ones. There are smaller local grocery stores around almost every block and each usually also has a pharmacy.

That's a lot of stuff for one county of around 2.7 million.

Rtm
 
Of course I live in NZ ....what do you expect?
The entire country has 5 million people. 1.3 million live in Auckland.

People get antsy if they have to live in a building that's higher than 3 storeys. lol
 
The Countdown supermarket where the shooting happened was in Lynmall, which was the first mall ever opened in NZ.

Personally, I am rather over malls as you can tell. They have a lot of shops...but you can only shop so much in one day (because most people have budgets) and no time to visit them all. I think mall owners have this idea that the more shops they cram into one building the more people like them but that's not really the case.

I recall visiting malls in Singapore and the US, that have bigger populations and more shoppers. They were so huge I got rather lost and scared that I would never find my way out or find a space where I could sit or hang out and NOT have to spend any money.
 
Lanolin said:
Of course I live in NZ ....what do you expect?
The entire country has 5 million people. 1.3 million live in Auckland.

People get antsy if they have to live in a building that's higher than 3 storeys. lol
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What I find interesting in New Zealand is a small island at the south tip called Steward Island. Have you been there, Lanolin?

As I was reviewing the island, it is very beautiful, seems serene and has a very small population.

That is a part of NZ I would love to live, start a church (only one church there that I know of,) or open a small business for the locals and visitors.

What would we sell? Skies the limit!
 
No I haven't been to Stewart Island, though I have kinda seen it from the bottom of the South Island over the water...

haha I think they may just have the one store that sells everything. You might need your own boat to get there, cos the ferry doesn't sail that often.
 
Lanolin said:
The Countdown supermarket where the shooting happened was in Lynmall, which was the first mall ever opened in NZ.

Personally, I am rather over malls as you can tell. They have a lot of shops...but you can only shop so much in one day (because most people have budgets) and no time to visit them all. I think mall owners have this idea that the more shops they cram into one building the more people like them but that's not really the case.

I recall visiting malls in Singapore and the US, that have bigger populations and more shoppers. They were so huge I got rather lost and scared that I would never find my way out or find a space where I could sit or hang out and NOT have to spend any money.
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If memory serves me well, malls became a "bid deal" here in the mid 1970s. I guess I was just part of the crowd that liked to hang at malls. By 1979, I had enlisted in the military and that life style was going anyway.

Later on, when I came back home to visit my parents, they di enjoy going to the mall to eat. They really did not shop, but they loved the food court.

I'm a very focused shopper. If I go to any store (mall or otherwise), I already know what I want. I go, get, and leave.

Rtm
 
My sister liked going to the mall and as a little sister I had no choice but to go with her.
Because she had pocket money, but I didn't, (I wasn't old enough for a job) it was a complete drag! There is nothing more boring than going to a mall with no spending money.

Then I made friends with someone who always liked to go shopping. By that time I did have a job, but she felt it was her duty to help me spend my money, but I still felt it was a bit of a drag going round and round the shops looking at everything. The highlight of it was sitting down to eat at the food court. I would have gladly not looked at any of the shops and just gone to one good restaurant instead of trying to choose between 20 different fast foods.
 
Lanolin said:
My sister liked going to the mall and as a little sister I had no choice but to go with her.
Because she had pocket money, but I didn't, (I wasn't old enough for a job) it was a complete drag! There is nothing more boring than going to a mall with no spending money.

Then I made friends with someone who always liked to go shopping. By that time I did have a job, but she felt it was her duty to help me spend my money, but I still felt it was a bit of a drag going round and round the shops looking at everything. The highlight of it was sitting down to eat at the food court. I would have gladly not looked at any of the shops and just gone to one good restaurant instead of trying to choose between 20 different fast foods.
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When my wife and I first got married, we lived in the Washington DC area. There was a mall that I believe was called Springfield Mall. It is 160,000 m2.

The wife needed a black dress for some formal event. We spent over 3 hours walking from store to store looking for a dress. She finally found one and we started walking to the entrance point where we came in through. Right at the entrance, there was a dress store with a black dress in the display. Yes, she just walked in and got the dress. Took less that 10 minutes. That was the LAST time she and I went to a mall together in over 25 years.

rtm
 
Via dolarossa said:
I love shopping and could easily spend 12 hours looking for the right dress.
I just don’t like malls. Give me a junk shop or market anyday.
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Not 100% sure of what a "junk shop" is, but I suspect it is like what we call a "thrift store" here.

We have these friends who use to throw interesting "costume" parties. The idea was that you had to go to thrift shops and buy an entire outfit, including shoes. The person that spent the least amount of money on his/her outfit won the door prize.

Those were fun.
rtm
 
I remember going to a party where you had to come wearing a costume you made out of black bin bags.
That was a fun party.
 
You know those shopping baskets some shops have. Why don't the sell those to people who could stash them in their car and take them shopping rather than those silly flimsy square bags that they sell?
 
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