Originally Posted by
Beagle
I respect your point of view mate and your point about consistency of growth in earnings with BGR is well made.
That said BGR hasn't really faced a downunder Amazon before so with cheaper shipping rates ex Australia it'll be interesting to see how they go in the future.
FWIW just before Christmas Mrs Beagle bought a small microwave oven online through Kmart's website and a new set of sheets for $109 in total, delivered. No need to try either on before she bought them and both would be considerably cheaper than buying at a Briscoe store. Yesterday we visited Rebel sports to look at their exercycle range which was pathetic, out of date compared to specialist other fitness stores we visited later in the day and most surprisingly the complete absence of shop assistant interest in serving us was shocking and the prices for old technology out of date designs were more than double what other shops wanted. A quick look on trade me would have you a better machine for less than half the price...just saying.
From memory BGR sales were up about 3% in the period just before Christmas whereas HLG are steaming along at about 17%. Really looking forward to HLG's profit guidance update.