Consumer taxpocalypse...mageddon...

[Coligny]

If everything is like at the McDo this morning, we are in a new era where 1yen coins are king...

[Mike Oxlong]

If everything is like at the McDo this morning, we are in a new era where 1yen coins are king...

My cuntry phased out pennies, and the last trip home for a visit threw me when I pulled into a truck-stop for some munchies and cheap sunglasses. My "You miscounted my change, bitch!" Jesse Pinkman (I know, wrong cuntry) impression was met with "Where've you been, eh, like living under a rock or sumthin?"

[Coligny]

In Saigon, supermarket always give candies when they can't precisely match the change.
We found it toats awesome...

[matsuki]

In Saigon, supermarket always give c handies when they can't precisely match the change.
We found it toats awesome...

FTFY

[Coligny]

Well, except if you buy icecream, cause' with the weather, they melt fast and stuff...

[legion]

If everything is like at the McDo this morning, we are in a new era where 1yen coins are king...

My cuntry phased out pennies, and the last trip home for a visit threw me when I pulled into a truck-stop for some munchies and cheap sunglasses. My "You miscounted my change, bitch!" Jesse Pinkman (I know, wrong cuntry) impression was met with "Where've you been, eh, like living under a rock or sumthin?"

In that situation I always say "I've been ........away"

makes you sound like a newly released criminal

frkkin Doutor - they hiked up their prices by 20 yen, how does 3 percent on 200 yen come to 220 yen?

[GomiGirl]

I am certain there will be lots of price gouging happening until things settle down. The dark side of the moon will be the decreased demand and then there might be some download pressure on prices. Or it could just be chalked up to some inflation.

[kurogane]

frkkin Doutor - they hiked up their prices by 20 yen, how does 3 percent on 200 yen come to 220 yen?

http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASG2X63JYG2XULFA03X.html

ドトール、飲み物１０～２０円値上げ　増税にあわせ
2014年2月28日21時28分
　ドトールコーヒーショップの運営会社は２８日、消費増税にあわせて、４月１日から飲み物を１０～２０円、食べ物は最大３０円値上げすると発表した。ブレンドコーヒー（Ｓ）は２０円上がり、２２０円になる。増税に加え、コーヒー豆や原油価格の上昇などが理由。ドトールの値上げは６年ぶり。

I love the way they get to the bottom of every story. Aaaah, Asahi.............A rather enjoyable Japanese GST 9/11 blogger was predicting this. It's a long awaited excuse shrouded in the tax excuse = Shou ga Nai strategy (his words). He was foaming at the mouth, if it's any consolation.

Still, 220 for a cup of almost decent coffee be pretty cheap. Normal gas station coffee here is about 3 bucks. And it's shiite.

Do they still kick out prissy white stewardesses for sitting there for 3 hours without buying anything? (it was in the news a bit ago) That would get my patronage. Not to mention freeing up 4 counter spaces at one blow.


PS apparently Mosburger is in on it too. Tip o' the iceberg, I say. Have wages gone up yet?

[yanpa]

frkkin Doutor - they hiked up their prices by 20 yen, how does 3 percent on 200 yen come to 220 yen?

A lot of pent-up inflation coming out as well methinks. All those prices which have remained exactly the same since the 90s.

[yanpa]

Tip o' the iceberg, I say. Have wages gone up yet?

Why yes!

[Taro Toporific]

[Breaking news] Bank of Japan announced a new 108 Yen denomination and will start 8 Yen manufacturing to handle the sales tax increase to 8%.

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【速報】消費税引き上げにともない日本銀行が108円玉と8円玉の製造を開始することを発表しました pic.twitter.com/yPwAleb6UV--- るい(14世)@山口 (@socio32111)April 1, 2014

[Coligny]

Will it replace the previous 105 yens coin ?
And the 2100 yens note ?

Don't you fear adobe send seal team 6 bursting through your window with their silent hawks one day to confiscate your photoshop license ?

[Coligny]

New trick at the local Valor

Base price in big
Post tax price in small

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Tardhelp: Valor is a chain of supermarket where you can exchange money for edible items or products needed to maintain human life.

[yanpa]

Dude, in case you haven't been out in the last couple of months, *everywhere* is displaying the base price now.

[Coligny]

In the BigT it's a new phenomenon... I swearz...

[yanpa]

Oh, I guess it takes time for the latest trends to trickle down from the metropoli

[Mike Oxlong]

Around here they've been displaying the new post-tax price to the decimal point.

[Coligny]

Oh, I guess it takes time for the latest trends to trickle down from the metropoli

Have you heard aboot this new fancy 'indoor plumbing' thing ?
I wonder why people find it better, just a new fad that will burst faster than a morning musume singer's hymen after the first show...

[IparryU]

Oh, I guess it takes time for the latest trends to trickle down from the metropoli

Have you heard aboot this new fancy 'indoor plumbing' thing ?
I wonder why people find it better, just a new fad that will burst faster than a morning musume singer's hymen after the first show...

????????

Maybe asking is not the right idea... But i dont think morning musume should be Googled with my sons around... Kiddy pr0n or something wabbit man?

[Coligny]

That's awesome !!!

You can witness in real time how fast these popturds group vanish from peoples mind when they are no longer forcefed to the mass with every car/food/hemorrhoid cream commercial...

So, before the AKB48 sluts there was the Morning Musume spunkdumpsters, same no talent-jailbait modus operandi. Teens shaking their poopers more or less in rhythm with ear piercing music to cater to the local pedo-flacid crowd of sweaty otakus and braindead low wage salarymen who can't afford soaplands.

Edit:

Holy tripping balls !!! They are still alive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Musume maybe you can manage to pork one of their sisters too...

[IparryU]

Holy tripping balls !!! They are still alive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Musume maybe you can manage to pork one of their sisters too...

Mind you... her body is a 7 but face is a 4.

yes... lights are off most of the time and I don't go out with her in public. major family issues... super drama and scapegoating. not to mention the invasion of my room and her fucking up all of Choko's bathroom products.

[Coligny]

Mind you... her body is a 7 but face is a 4.

Who cares, how is the bank account ?

[wagyl]

major family issues... super drama and scapegoating.

It has been said before to Choko and should be said to you as well: don't dip your dick in crazy.

[IparryU]

Mind you... her body is a 7 but face is a 4.

Who cares, how is the bank account ?

AKB make fuck all in terms of pay. they just get hella free stuff and a nice mansion to live in. The family own a cafe... which does good due to the PR, but she (my lemur) probably makes JPY3M a year.

Not worth IMO, but stuck with her for the time being.

[IparryU]

major family issues... super drama and scapegoating.

It has been said before to Choko and should be said to you as well: don't dip your dick in crazy.

Ya... My stories up until a point trumped in the "dont stick your dick in crazy" category... until he got a super crazy lemur.

meh... I need to kick her to the curb sooner than later.

[wagyl]

Post too much on an open page and one day soon someone might end up with a shaven head. Sly googling suggests that it may not be the first time.

[IparryU]

Post too much on an open page and one day soon someone might end up with a shaven head. Sly googling suggests that it may not be the first time.

yup... need to slow my fingers down a bit.

could move this to premium to prevent novice google users from getting too much info...

[Mike Oxlong]

Japan’s Worst Auto Sales in 16 Months Show Hangover Begins

Call it Japan’s Great Hangover.

Vehicle deliveries last month in Asia’s second-largest auto market fell to the lowest since December 2012 after Japan raised its consumption tax for the first time 17 years, according to industry figures released yesterday. In the run-up to the levy being increased 3 percentage points to 8 percent on April 1, sales had surged for seven straight months.

More broadly, the figures may foreshadow the extent of the consumer backlash resulting from the higher taxes Prime Minister Shinzo Abe imposed to counter the world’s biggest debt burden. Economists estimate that this quarter, Japan will see its biggest economic contraction since the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the country three years ago.

“Any sane person was buying big-ticket items in February or March rather than in April,” Martin Schulz, an economist at Fujitsu Research Institute in Tokyo, said by telephone. “The Japanese carmakers will have to prove how much they really can work this very difficult market.”

Total sales fell 5.5 percent to 345,226, according to the Japan Automobile Dealers Association and Japan Mini Vehicle Association. The slump may deepen this month as poor weather prevented some customers, who placed orders before the sales tax increase, from getting their cars delivered until April.

Yearlong Slump

The delay made industry sales for April artificially high, and the numbers could turn “very grave” starting this month, Yoshitaka Hayashi, a director at the dealer association, told reporters yesterday.

Carmakers are bracing for a yearlong slump, with the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association’s forecasting a record 16 percent sales decline for the fiscal year ending in March 2015...