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Exams finished

by RL on 2010/07/27

That’s it. Exams are finished – at least for me! Thanks to the joys of OCR, marking is as good as done too. Glad to see one tall person in the Zemi did so well as to increase her grade too.

… Now just to decide if the idiots who cause me extra work deserve their pass grades …

Now for the summer. Lots of things to do, not least organising my FOUR Twitter accounts. @royzemi has been around since the early days of Twitter, but everyone seems to be signing up to my personal account nowadays. Time to split things.

Other things on the list for the summer: Costco, SC report, prep Global Marketing (going to be about positioning), play with the kids and try to stay reasonably cool. It’s when the temperature gets above 30 when you really miss the green fields.

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Why Mosburger can’t compete

by RL on 2010/07/05

It’s been interesting to watch RU first years tangle with the problem of how Mosburger is supposed to compete with McDonalds in Japan. Originally created as the Japanese McDonalds, with high levels of quality and service, the chain seems to be completely unable to grasp the fact that it’s customers (in fact, probably hamburger customers everywhere) won’t buy simply because ingredients are said to be made in Japan. At least it’s getting more international: Nan Pizza?!

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Typical smoker

June 20, 2010

I’m not sure I can add much to this picture. The Japanese says something like: “How about this taste? Arrived in Japan.” It seems to me that Japan Tobacco (who never call themselves anything but JT nowadays) have a very clear target with the Winston ads they’re running on all and every fag vending machine [...]

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Smiles in short supply at Starbucks Ikebukuro Nishi

June 20, 2010

The Starbucks Ikebukuro West Exit store I think keeps its title a the second worst in the world. The only place I’ve received worse, less friendly and down right miserable service at a Starbucks is still Gatwick Airport and even the miserable 12 year old seeming boys serving in Ikebukuro today weren’t that bad – [...]

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Softbank incompetency — again

June 20, 2010

Now, I know almost all phone companies are evil incarnate, but Softbank really does double it up with pure incompetency. Not only do they have a monopoly on iPhone sales in Japan at a time when it is overwhelmingly the most popular smartphone (I strongly suspect that this is something that has saved the company [...]

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