7/11 no aloha in kurtistown

[Kapohocat]

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...who cares who's buliding it? it's not needed right next door to a store that has been providing goods to upper puna for many years, yeah 7/11 is realllll local. this is just another nightmare that's not needed, talk about keeping puna rural, lol! i say boycott them!...

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What about when Hara family bought out/moved into Saito's (sp?) - how many people said we are boycotting Hara's not all that long ago?? ha ha

[Scott_S]

Where we really need a 7/11 at is down by the Champagne Pond so the tourists can stop and get a slushy.

[bystander]

J Hara store used to be called Sako store so I think it was the Sakos and not the Saitos.

[Beachboy]

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It really irks me when folks refer to smaller stores who "gouge" their customers with high prices. How naive are you who have never been a retailer in a small community.

Do you not have a clue as to how the volume of customers, minimal buying power, capital and cash flow impact the profit margin required to stay in business?

So go to the big box stores if cost of goods is the only issue, where the employees get paid squat and no one knows your name.

Aloha, Dan

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oh, it really "irks" you, huh? I got news for you pal. I have owned several businesses myself. I know all to well how the businesses operate in Hawaii! Price gouging is the main formula whether you choose to believe it or not.
I have even found some businesses in Honolulu that had three different set of prices depending on your skin color! As terrible as it is, it's very much true.

Mom & pop stores have had the luxury of reeming us for years using the idea of being the original convience store way before 7-11 even came into view in Hawaii . Oh I understand the principles of small business in Hawaii Daniel, and let me tell you. There is a fine line between gouging & being a convience store in Hawaii. This line tends to get blurred a lot because of greed and the profits one use to make 20 years ago.

Another problem today with mom & pop stores is just that. They are run by mom & pop's who refuse to change with the times, plain and simple.

Listen, I grew up on Maui when there was only one street light on the entire island! I know all to well about "mom & Pop" stores and Okazuyas in the islands.


Handle every situation like a dog,If you can't eat it or hump it,piss on it and walk away...


Edited by - beachboy on 11/29/2007 06:22:10

[pslamont]

Gee, seems to me a business is a business is a business.... if you don't like the price, product, service, location or whatever, don't shop there. Why complain? If they weren't meeting the needs of some of the people, they wouldn't be around long. THAT is business.

Don't blame anyone for being smart enough to find their niche. Only blame yourself for supporting what you think is wrong. You rather drive to Hilo and spend $10 in gas to save $1 on a gallon of milk. Your choice.

As for the 7/11 in Kurtistown... it's just a business. It will make it if people use it and it won't if they don't. It won't impact J. Hara that much because most of their sales aren't in quick food and snacks but beer and fishing/hunting goods. They will each make minor adjustments in what they provide and will co-exist side by side. As for the fence I noticed, it seemed to be up for safety at the construction site.

Everyone seems to be looking to complain lately. For that, go to Craigs List: Rants and Raves. I understand Punaweb to be for information sharing and some cameraderie... let's get on track!

Aloha, Pam

Just another day in P A R A D I S E !!

[lquade]

EXACTLY Pam.. the only reason i said anything at all was the title of the thread was "no aloha in kurtistown" and they all started in on something that they didnt really have any facts on, other than "i" was inconvienced therefore there is no aloha when aloha is really about compassion and letting things flow.....why badmouth something you really have no facts on.....

[Scott_S]

To me it doesn't have a thing to do with facts, some of the abiance I like is lost when a 7/11, a McDs, or what ever moves in. It's just a feeling. Must be cause I grew up in such a small town the closest chain anything was 40 miles. Oh well to each their own.

On another note I was sitting in the Dentist office and could over hear him talking to a patient. All I caught was the patient saying something about the Big Island and the Dentist saying ya they should start calling it Cali Island.?? It just surprised me to hear anything about the Big Island in this little town in Al.


Aloha,
Scott

[Kapohocat]

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J Hara store used to be called Sako store so I think it was the Sakos and not the Saitos.

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Thank you! I couldn't remember the spelling!

[loffelkopffl]

fact; they want the post office to lease a space from them so "they" can make the money off them, not to be nice, fact; they didn't have to block off the driveway, they chose to do so to "stick" it to j hara, fact; it's not just inconvienent to me, lol! 7/11 next stop by hirano's store?

[Andrew]

Now come on Pam, you know that common sense has no place on a thread like this. What were you thinking?

Andrew

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Gee, seems to me a business is a business is a business.... if you don't like the price, product, service, location or whatever, don't shop there. Why complain? If they weren't meeting the needs of some of the people, they wouldn't be around long. THAT is business.

Don't blame anyone for being smart enough to find their niche. Only blame yourself for supporting what you think is wrong. You rather drive to Hilo and spend $10 in gas to save $1 on a gallon of milk. Your choice.

As for the 7/11 in Kurtistown... it's just a business. It will make it if people use it and it won't if they don't. It won't impact J. Hara that much because most of their sales aren't in quick food and snacks but beer and fishing/hunting goods. They will each make minor adjustments in what they provide and will co-exist side by side. As for the fence I noticed, it seemed to be up for safety at the construction site.

Everyone seems to be looking to complain lately. For that, go to Craigs List: Rants and Raves. I understand Punaweb to be for information sharing and some cameraderie... let's get on track!

Aloha, Pam

Just another day in P A R A D I S E !!

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