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Posted on
Monday, February 18, 2013
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Tip: It won't hurt to ask for certain freebies from the SM department store if you are aggrieved due to poor service or misinformation.
On Friday, 15 Feb. 2013 I bought a total of over $100 in clothes and other items for me and the wife to avail of the Valentine's Weekend Sale that should've totalled to about 35%.
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| SM City Olongapo |
On Friday, 15 Feb. 2013 I bought a total of over $100 in clothes and other items for me and the wife to avail of the Valentine's Weekend Sale that should've totalled to about 35%.
Unfortunately, two department managers made the costly mistake of giving me the wrong info that lost for me a small percentage of the promised discount.
After a long apology from management, I insisted that they compensate me for my troubles. They were hesitant at first until I told them that I'm not paying for any of the items.
Management relented and gave me a coupon for a free box of 12 brownies worth $10, discount coupons, extra raffle tickets (which management staff completed at my behest) and full management assistance for the rest of my shopping walk around. Yeah, I guess you could say they made the shopping experience and the hassle worthwhile.
After a long apology from management, I insisted that they compensate me for my troubles. They were hesitant at first until I told them that I'm not paying for any of the items.
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| My beautiful wife |
Management relented and gave me a coupon for a free box of 12 brownies worth $10, discount coupons, extra raffle tickets (which management staff completed at my behest) and full management assistance for the rest of my shopping walk around. Yeah, I guess you could say they made the shopping experience and the hassle worthwhile.
It was so good, I ended up spending $500 in the three-day span that covered the sale period. In the end, one of those raffle tickets won me a 50-inch flat screen TV. Yeah, I'm that blessed.
About The Author
Victor Dela Casa is
a Filipino-Canadian who spent over a decade working as a business
professional in Canada. Worked in IT, finance, marketing, international
trade, public service, project management and the maritime industry.
Degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines and Honours
Diploma from Eastern College. Currently based in the Philippines and
working as a professional writer for a multi-national business processes
firm.
Posted on
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Tags: local businesses, Olongapo city, Subic bay, Philippine business, merging
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For the past 20 or so years, Happy Valley Supermart has been an important and influential part of the local community, serving Olongapenos, and recently, Subic and Iba.
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| Happy Valley bounced back after a 2009 fire but failed to compete with national brand stores |
I am saddened to hear that the rising competition from bigger, national brand stores like Ayala and SM, are forcing local stores to close. On that note, Happy Valley Superstore is going out of business.
Local businesses are essential to our community. They help define the local identity. While I agree that a community needs a little bit of competition so as to inject change and improve existing and accepted ways of doing business, I hate to see national brand businesses monopolize and just take over this community.
National stores kill competition and effectively destroy the local entrepreneurial spirit. Local businesses should find ways to cooperate with each other through merging together or other means to create competitive businesses and bigger stores that can go toe-to-toe and head-to-head with the likes of Ayala and Sy. Only through by helping each other can local businesses compete with these giants and retain local pride.
Just my 25 centavos on the matter which could actually be worth a billion pesos.
Posted on
Friday, November 16, 2012
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Chow Buzz: Megamall’s new ramen place; guest chefs from Singapore and France
By Cyrene de la Rosa, InterAksyon.com · Friday, November 16, 2012 · 10:57 am
Currently on soft opening is Manila’s newest ramen contender, Kitchitora of Tokyo. The newly opened ramen house is conveniently located just across the tonkatsu specialist Yabu House of Katsu on the second floor of SM Megamall’s Atrium. This first foreign branch of a newly formed Tokyo ramen house that represents the famous recipes of Kookai, Kohmen and Daijin—three famous ramen and soba chains in Tokyo—aims to share the delicious aspects of Japanese culture to Asia through its ramen.
Ramen, a Japanese noodle dish of Chinese origin brought from China by Confucian missionaries in the 17th century is basically composed of just two main ingredients: soup and noodles. The soup base has many varieties and Kichitora’s soup base primarily uses a chicken-based broth to achieve a distinct taste, and provide a welcome change to the predominantly pork-centric broths of its competitors.
Chow Buzz enjoyed a bowl of piping hot Shoyu ramen (soy-based broth) on opening day and is looking forward to checking out the rest of its limited soft opening menu next week.
