Retailers
If you’re in a Harvey Norman store right now preparing to buy a video game, put it down. Gerry has commanded you.
The CEO of electronics chain Harvey Norman Gerry Harvey has admitted defeat and will finally be opening an online store.
But he won’t be selling fridges. Oh no. Nor will he be selling fans, or air-conditioning units, or iPods, iPads, televisions or cameras.
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Harvey Norman boss Gerry Harvey has dramatically decided to step away from a campaign to regulate the purchase of goods online from overseas. Harvey has blamed a torrent of social media abuse as prime reason for his departure.
Harvey said the attacks were “vicious and hateful” and, as for the campaign, well, it was “bad timing”.
However, Harvey really bells the cat when he says ‘you might have got a nasty phone call or a letter back in the old days but now anything slightly controversial, these people, whoever they might be, they go for you zealously and with hatred all over Twitter”.
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Argonaut49 says:
Pawns in their game is about right. So what are Levy, Harvey, Myers, DJs, Borders, A&R really after? One thing’s for sure, it simply cannot be the lack of GST on online overseas sales. That’s such a tiny fraction of total sales, it’s simple not credible. Then there’s the cry… Read more »
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BobbyDan says:
Opps I was in full flight and we had power flick and I lost the lot. As I was saying I had a need of a refridgerator this morning (Sunday 09/01/11), my local bloke was off counting sheep so I had no choice but to go to the big smoke… Read more »
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