Can’t squat, can’t work, says MyerMyer has ruled a 61-year-old woman unfit to work as she was unable to complete a squat or walk up stairs without holding onto the railing, although she works behind a desk in a clerical position.
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Tips and rumours: Tensions are high in the Young LNP
Why are tensions high in the Young LNP? And which Jennifer Hawkins’ fashion spread has Myer fuming?
Tips and rumours: Is Myer set to lose another major brand to DJs?
A tipster claims another big household name is set to ditch Myer, while another explains the comings and goings of “female interest” writers in major newspapers.
Tips and rumours: Q&A with the Australian Jockey Club
As an attendee of last week’s AJC Extraordinary General Meeting, one can only give it one positive spin — it lived up to its title of being “extraordinary”.
Myer shelves its dreams of world domination
Myer’s dream of a gleaming new Dubai store in the Ibn Battuta Mall has been out on laybuy, maybe shelved, writes Andrew Crook.
Tips and Rumours
Christmas window construction horror: Myer’s famous Melbourne Christmas Windows are under threat this year, due to the renovation of the Bourke St building. The retailer has been quietly looking at ‘plan b’ options for the windows, which normally front the Bourke St mall. This could see the windows moved to the less appealing and smaller […]
Tips and rumours
Myer’s Dubai announcement deserves a closer look (and it’s a shame that no journalists has yet done so, apart from swallowing the company’s spin). Just what are they exporting? As many Crikey tipsters have rightly pointed out, service at Myer is bad and getting worse. Labour is one of the biggest costs, and hacking it […]
Retail figures equal bad news for department stores
Right now it is better to be selling a sausage than a sofa. Rob Lake explains.
Tips & rumours
Who is representing Gunns in Canberra? With the pulp mill project officially “troubled”, no lobbyist has put their hand up as representing the forestry products behemoth on the Register of Lobbyists. Sydney corporate relations firm Cato Counsel was hired recently by Gunns but “it’s just media – no lobbying” says senior consultant Matt Horan. So who’s […]
Private equity suffering in the UK to spread downunder
UK retailer Debenhams is suffering, as are the private equiteers who own it. The really bad news is, there Australian companies stepping into the same leaky boat, writes Glenn Dyer.
Tips and rumours
Myer head honcho Bernie Brookes has again upset his private equity boss, TPG, by calling out weak sales at upmarket US department store, Neiman Marcus, in his speech to Trans-Tasman Business Circle in Sydney on Friday. TPG owns Neiman Marcus and has struggled to turn the business around, experiencing the same loss of relevance that […]
Tips and rumours
Which acting Prime Minister thinks that she is so important that no-one else is allowed to park at 4 Treasury Place while she is filling in for Rudd? Other Members of Parliament who use 4 Treasury Place regularly or as one-offs have been told by the Department of Finance that there is no parking available […]
Store wars: A new hope for Myer in their battle against David Jones?
When the new team moved into Myer last year, they inherited a broken company that was performing well below world’s best practice for department stores, and a long way short of its potential. Sales were stagnant and the business was fat and inefficient.
Tips and rumours
Glenn Milne got his gay smears documents from the Prime Minister’s press secretary Tony O’Leary, who was hawking it about as an example of “Labor dirt”. Doesn’t he know about the behaviour of the religious right in his boss’ own division of the Liberals? Sighted campaigning in Bennelong at Coxs’ Rd North Ryde Saturday 22 […]
Tips and rumours
The end of the war. All the media nonsense about who won the store wars — Jennifer Hawkins for Myer or Megan Gale for DJs — is just a distraction. The war officially ended last week when DJs announced Q4 sales of 12.1% and a full year increase of 9%. I am a Myer supplier and was told that […]
Branson to apply double pincer movement on Virgin Blue, Qantas and Jetstar?
Is Richard Branson running a double pincer movement on Virgin Blue, Qantas and Jetstar?
