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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
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 Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:21 am Post subject: Whole fried chicken at Lottemart for 3,980 won |
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Until Wednesday, April 6
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2918660
Marts war over poultry, pizza prices
April 02, 2010
For months, local discount stores have been locked in a price war, often over individual products. That war is now spreading, retail sources say, from packaged goods to poultry and pizza, as chains try to one-up each other with more appealing promotions.
Lotte Mart, the nation�s third-largest discounter after E-Mart and Homeplus, announced yesterday that it would sell a 600-gram (21-ounce) whole fried chicken for 3,980 won ($3.53), half the usual price of 7,980 won, until next Wednesday. Considering the average market price of a whole chicken was 4,729 won as of Monday, that seems like quite a significant price cut.
�The price is striking,� said Lee Min-hyung, a consumer who frequently visits a Lotte Mart branch after work. �If I ever do eat fried chicken this week, I�d better buy it at Lotte Mart. The price is way cheaper than other places, where one costs at least 12,000 won. I wonder how the store cut the price so much.�
To answer Lee�s curiosity, Kim Sang-hyun from Lotte Mart said that the retailer secured contracts to purchase 70,000 chickens last December, �when the market price was 20 percent cheaper than now.�
E-Mart, run by the Shinsegae Group, has taken a different tack, using its huge scale to buy up bulk imported products cheaply and offer them at lower prices. Branches of the store sell four types of frozen pizzas shipped directly from Italy for 6,500 won - the latest in a line of cheap imports that included a TaylorMade Golf r7 Iron for 9,900 won.
�Discount marts are looking for different ways to compete over price, and they�re differentiating themselves by strengthening their merchandising and buying routes,� said an industry official.
This second phase of competition follows the first, in which E-Mart decided to lower the price of a certain number of daily necessities in January. Lotte Mart immediately announced that it would sell the same products at prices 10 won lower than its competitor�s. Experts have called this game of chicken between retailers a lose-lose for the stores involved, with consumers as the only winners.
By Lee Eun-joo [[email protected]] |
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ChilgokBlackHole
Joined: 21 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:03 am Post subject: |
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| I tried it. I ate the drumstick and threw the rest out. If you want to eat cheap food, try packing peanuts. |
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Steve_Rogers2008
Joined: 22 Mar 2010
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but it's a whole fried chicken...... reminds me of the time my friend Jake Blues ordered 4 whole fried chickens, then finished it off with a rubber biscuit..... 
still can never forgive those poseurs who thought they could pretend to know the blues.... |
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BoholDiver
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| That's all fine and dandy, but I would much appreciate more reasonable and competitive prices on things like milk, rice, fruit, and vegetables. |
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Clockout
Joined: 23 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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| How am i supposed to cook a frozen pizza??? |
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ChilgokBlackHole
Joined: 21 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Clockout wrote: |
| How am i supposed to cook a frozen pizza??? |
In the oven. |
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Clockout
Joined: 23 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 12:04 am Post subject: |
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ChilgokBlackHole
Joined: 21 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 12:43 am Post subject: |
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Sorry. It's a big box in your kitchen. You turn it on and it gets hot. You open it and put food inside. The hot temperatures in the box cook the food. |
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Clockout
Joined: 23 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| Just had a thorough look around my kitchen and didn't see anything like what you're describing. Am I missing something? |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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Adam Carolla
Joined: 26 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 5:21 am Post subject: |
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| ChilgokBlackHole wrote: |
| Clockout wrote: |
| How am i supposed to cook a frozen pizza??? |
In the oven. |
Most people could read between the lines to understand that the poster was lamenting the dearth of ovens here. Some people, apparently, can't. |
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Adam Carolla
Joined: 26 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| ChilgokBlackHole wrote: |
| Adam Carolla wrote: |
| ChilgokBlackHole wrote: |
| Clockout wrote: |
| How am i supposed to cook a frozen pizza??? |
In the oven. |
Most people could read between the lines to understand that the poster was lamenting the dearth of ovens here. Some people, apparently, can't. |
So. Go. Buy. One. |
1. Not all apartments, particularly those of E2 visa holders, which tend to be on the smaller side have room for an oven.
2. Given that there is room, the E2 visa holder may not feel like shelling out a bunch of money to buy an oven that will only be used for a year.
3. It is quite likely that the poster in question was simply lamenting the fact that his apartment didn't come equipped with an oven ALREADY and wasn't looking for advice on how to remedy the situation. Because, you know, people do that kind of thing. I'm sure the mind-blowing solution of buying an oven, despite being incredibly obvious, and just as incredibly fraught with drawbacks, never, ever, occurred to him. |
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IlIlNine
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Location: Gunpo, Gyonggi, SoKo
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Adam Carolla wrote: |
| ChilgokBlackHole wrote: |
| Adam Carolla wrote: |
| ChilgokBlackHole wrote: |
| Clockout wrote: |
| How am i supposed to cook a frozen pizza??? |
In the oven. |
Most people could read between the lines to understand that the poster was lamenting the dearth of ovens here. Some people, apparently, can't. |
So. Go. Buy. One. |
1. Not all apartments, particularly those of E2 visa holders, which tend to be on the smaller side have room for an oven.
2. Given that there is room, the E2 visa holder may not feel like shelling out a bunch of money to buy an oven that will only be used for a year.
3. It is quite likely that the poster in question was simply lamenting the fact that his apartment didn't come equipped with an oven ALREADY and wasn't looking for advice on how to remedy the situation. Because, you know, people do that kind of thing. I'm sure the mind-blowing solution of buying an oven, despite being incredibly obvious, and just as incredibly fraught with drawbacks, never, ever, occurred to him. |
You know that there are many kinds of ovens that can do the job, don't you? You don't need to buy a full-standing oven/range to bake a cake, roast a turkey or reheat pizza. There are quite nice convection ovens that you can buy that will do all of those things fantastically for around 300,000 and they're portable enough to fit in a taxi.
It really does seem like a trivial thing to complain about, especially if, as you suggest, it may only be used a few times per year.
http://www.enuri.com/view/include/BigImageOnlyPopup.jsp?modelno=1992983&intGetModelNo=0&szModelNm=HQ-Z365AS&CateName=%BA%B9%C7%D5%BF%C0%BA%EC%20%3C%20%BF%C0%BA%EC&szFactory=%BB%EF%BC%BA&szCategory=06211201&strRsiflag=&intRsiModelNo=0&strImageChk=1&nMallCnt=76 |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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| IlIlNine wrote: |
| Adam Carolla wrote: |
| ChilgokBlackHole wrote: |
| Adam Carolla wrote: |
| ChilgokBlackHole wrote: |
| Clockout wrote: |
| How am i supposed to cook a frozen pizza??? |
In the oven. |
Most people could read between the lines to understand that the poster was lamenting the dearth of ovens here. Some people, apparently, can't. |
So. Go. Buy. One. |
1. Not all apartments, particularly those of E2 visa holders, which tend to be on the smaller side have room for an oven.
2. Given that there is room, the E2 visa holder may not feel like shelling out a bunch of money to buy an oven that will only be used for a year.
3. It is quite likely that the poster in question was simply lamenting the fact that his apartment didn't come equipped with an oven ALREADY and wasn't looking for advice on how to remedy the situation. Because, you know, people do that kind of thing. I'm sure the mind-blowing solution of buying an oven, despite being incredibly obvious, and just as incredibly fraught with drawbacks, never, ever, occurred to him. |
You know that there are many kinds of ovens that can do the job, don't you? You don't need to buy a full-standing oven/range to bake a cake, roast a turkey or reheat pizza. There are quite nice convection ovens that you can buy that will do all of those things fantastically for around 300,000 and they're portable enough to fit in a taxi.
It really does seem like a trivial thing to complain about, especially if, as you suggest, it may only be used a few times per year.
http://www.enuri.com/view/include/BigImageOnlyPopup.jsp?modelno=1992983&intGetModelNo=0&szModelNm=HQ-Z365AS&CateName=%BA%B9%C7%D5%BF%C0%BA%EC%20%3C%20%BF%C0%BA%EC&szFactory=%BB%EF%BC%BA&szCategory=06211201&strRsiflag=&intRsiModelNo=0&strImageChk=1&nMallCnt=76 |
300? the one i linked to can do pretty much everything a regular oven can plus it can rotisserie chicken and is only 80,000.
I have made bread, scones, a cake, roast chicken, potatoes, casseroles roast pork, pizzza, baked stuffed pumpkin ... |
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CKAB
Joined: 03 Apr 2010
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| All I can say is price wars are good for consumers, so war away, Lotte and Emart |
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