More Than A Feilding

More Than A Feilding

Please be patient, please don’t get mad, please don’t bark

Sunday column

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David Slack
Apr 22, 2023
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In a Fiordland supermarket on a recent Sunday, Karren found herself waiting in line behind a small scene.

You’ve charged us 2.99 each for four avocados, the customer told the checkout operator, they’re supposed to be 99 cents. 

No, they’re 2.99 she replied.

No they’re not, he insisted, in the manner of the Boomer customer who cannot believe how bloody hope…

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