Riding your OD to Canadian Optical Franchise Dominance in 10 Easy Steps

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-...lers/100461772

From the article:

"Let's be clear, these companies did absolutely nothing wrong; they legitimately qualified for this scheme.
"If you qualified in an instant, you continued to receive the subsidy for six months, regardless of whether you're trading returned to normal or not."

Seems like you should be mad at the Australian Government :unsure:

The Canadian product thus IS NOT the result of the invisible hand of a free market. Those OCTs (that they don't charge for) was paid for by tax-dollars intended for Australian businesses struggling with the pandemic. The Canadian product is thus being unfairly subsidized by overseas Covid-relief money sheltered in the tax haven of Guernsey. Furthermore, given that they are headquartered in Guernsey, then all their profits (not just those from the Jobseeker program) get booked at advantageous tax rates.

A country can tax a business that is operating within it whatever they would like regardless of where they are headquartered no? If they charge too much said company can decide to not operate there, the country and the company both have a decision on what is optimal for each--that is the free market. Again it sounds like you should be mad at the Australian Government...

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I worked in chain stores (owned by the evil empire) where the OD had no incentive to help sell glasses. Some of the ODs were great and understood the game I had to play as the manager of the store, and others couldn't be bothered. I broke my back to keep their appointment books full regardless of if they were helping me or not because I wanted a shot to sell to as many people as I could. But it was much tougher when the doc says here is their Rx and doesn't give any recommendations from the chair. So as a former manager for chain stores I would welcome a doc with buy in who wanted to make the store profitable.

Specsthrifters looks like they have gone WAY too far in that respect though. Still have to agree with optical 24/7...

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If all this is true, who’s the fool? The OD or the corporation?

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