Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 16:30:08 -0400
From: Amy Bulbrook
Subject: antonella’s and the Plenty

In response to the poster who has a problem with Antonella not accepting the Plenty:

It is your right to refuse to do business with them if that is what you choose. I have been a customer of hers since they opened and I appreciate the salon (and Antonella) very much.

Each business in this town has the right to decide what form of payment they will accept. I don’t blame her for her choice. Who in their right mind would accept a currency that can only be used with select vendors, and knowingly cash it in for “real” money at a 10% loss?

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Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 17:50:16 +0000
From: Vini
Subject: To Matt who is boycotting Antonellas

If you want to use Plenty, that’s your prerogative, but I don’t. If my employer tried to pay me with this stuff as you suggested, I would have a fit, and would be supported by the labor board. Cashing in a dollar for 90 cents doesn’t thrill me either. The idea to use Plenty was an idea of few, and to ask everyone to support it by not using vendors that don’t accept  it is a form of financial blackmail against the very people you claim to support, and it stinks.

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Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 12:15:31 -0400
From: everyday krauser
Subject: Antonella’s refuses the Plenty

I can think of many reason’s a small salon in town would refuse the plenty. One of the main sources of income for hairdresser’s is tips and i imagine that their main expenses consist of bills just like the rest of us.

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Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 11:00:25 -0500
From: Tom Glendinning
Subject: Subject: Community Meetings on Potential Chatham Landfill

I address this issue as the founder of the NC Compost Council and the largest producer of compost in the state at one time (1988-1993) and someone whose corporate efforts were directed toward recycling before it became popular.

The proposed landfill meetings are sponsored by the county.  They may provide a solution to support of the trucking industry now used to transport waste across county and state lines.  However, the proposed solution will be flawed in design if it does not account for the most efficient and cost-effective strategy overlooked, yeh ingored, by officials and bureaucrats many times in the twenty-eight years that alternative were sought.

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Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 10:39:23 -0400
From: mary51802
Subject: The Plenty

Dear Chatham,

I am still working on getting the new “Buy Chatham” discount card going.

I have talked to 42 businesses county wide that are in agreement with a card that will work much like a VIC Card. The business would give you a 10% discount on your purchase when you show the card. I am in the process of getting a pro bono attorney involved for contracts with these stores and it will be available county wide not just Pittsboro.

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Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 10:18:51 -0400
From: Karen Tiede
Subject: Offloading Plentys

Quote:  “Secondly, you can always pay your employees a percentage of their wages in Plenty’s, so there will always be a means to offload them.”

I understood that most people who work in salons are not employees, per se, but independent contractors who rent booth space from the owner.  Perhaps this is different at some places.

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Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 10:06:12 -0400
From: D
Subject: Businesses have the right to not accept Plenty

The post by Matthew Rudolf of Piedmont biofuels (re: chattlist 3430, Antonella’s not accepting Plenty) will do more harm than good; every business has the right to accept/not accept the plenty.  I can guarantee that more businesses do NOT accept the plenty than DO. I’ve heard of the many hassles it causes (extra time spent on a separate accounting system (to
reconcile daily = more labor spent = lost revenue), the extra time spent having to go to two banks rather than one, making change is a nightmare, and more along those lines…

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Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 23:12:58 -0400
From: Mark Stinson
Subject: Just tinkering

I’m always tinkering on something. If I don’t stay busy then I pay more attention to how bad I hurt instead of staying busy while  ignoring how bad I hurt.

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