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Nice one, Jessica, thanks. I hadn't realised it was an Australianism. The great Oxford English Dictionary has "Manchester cottons" and "Manchester wares" with exactly the same meaning but the Australian Oxford Dictionary does have (lower case) manchester ... Household linen; the department of a shop
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This is misinformation. The GST was a replacement tax, not a "new tax" (which implies "additional tax.") The "price increases" were largely opportunistic, not increases in real prices and the contraction after the GST's introduction was matched by a surge before as people anticipated the changed tax
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Could a local explain the use of the word "Manchester" (or simply link to the relevant article, if it exists - I couldn't find one) in this article? As an American I've never heard this word used this way... I googled and gather it means linens, but it's totally inscrutable to me from this article.
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The final paragraph under The Trescowthick era states "The year 2000 was difficult for all retailers, as the Australian Government introduced a new retail turnover tax (the GST). Many retailers suffered a reduction in sales and profits after prices increased due to this new tax. Like many other
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It appears that there have been more NPOV/COI issues arise, with a large amount of content which may be considered to show the firm in a negative light having been removed by an IP editor. As I'm largely inactive these days - seeking someone more active to review. --
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In the article it says in 1866 it was renamed "Geo. P. Harris, Scarfe & Co.", but it doesn't say when the name was changed from that to Harris Scarfe. Also was it ever called "Harris & Scarfe"?
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379: 370:"Its 12 Allens Branded stores are currently being rebranded to Harris Scarfe." - I visited a town in NSW with a former Allens store in early 2009 and it was a Harris Scarfe. 623: 191: 522:
of 1983. Probably another expression that will die with the "baby boomers", with the simultaneous decline of department stores and onslaught of global merchandising.
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Quoting the note next to Burnie, Tasmainia, "outlet is to close in July 2009" - we are now in April 2010 - list is (at least in part) out of date
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There is not any referencing in the entire list, and unless someone was to find a list on Harris Scarfe's website, we would have to break
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The formatting of the list is inconstiant across the article - some entries are linked, some are not; some have opening dates, some don't
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in which such goods are sold. "Only Australian shoppers buy their sheets and pillow cases from a manchester department" quoted from
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I deleted it. The whole article is a disaster and needs to be rewritten. This store deserves maybe three paragraphs at most.
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I suggest that these two sentences add nothing to the article, are politically biased and so should be deleted.
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Thanks, I wanted to get some input about the list before I went and removed it, but if someone else wanted to
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is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under
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That's so interesting - really do learn something every day here. Thanks very much for the info!
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The 2019-2020 section is too long and needs to be broken up into several subsections.
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I am proposing this list is removed from the article as a violation of
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retailers, Harris Scarfe felt the pressure of this trading challenge"
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then I wouldn't have cared really. Thanks for fixing that. --
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Any explanation or link in the text would be great, thanks!
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Knowledge article constitutes fair use. In addition to the
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I have concerns about this list remaining in the article.
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