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Posted by Tawan , Reader : 908 , 20:55:31  
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Always low prices wins again. Now Thailand can join the Global ranks of cheap prices and no service. The self service petrol stations have arrived and the joys of pumping your own petrol has arrived in Thailand at least I will not be standing in the snow pumping petrol. Globalization is really moving fast but I have to admit that the self service petrol station is a real shocker for me. I thought one of the last standing global competitive edge for Thailand was service. My friends in America are really laughing now. I never thought I would see this day in Thailand.

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comment 16 earlsy date : 22/01/2008 time : 12.24 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/secondtimearound

Good for you GG... Did you used to be a gas boy?

comment 15 GGrass date : 22/01/2008 time : 10.19 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/GGrass

in gas stations that i regularly visit, i do it myself. i don't have the patience to wait for the gas boy to come and do it for me. at first, they looked at me funny, and the manager walked over to tell me i shouldn't do this, but i told her, 'i used to be a gas boy myself. i know how to work this thing, don't worry. besides, your staffs are too busy. i'm helping you, so take my help.' and she smiled and just let me do my thing. (Shell station at Rama 2 road)

comment 14 Tawan date : 18/01/2008 time : 21.29 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/tawan3

More recent examples would be Bookmark from Nescape if not for Apple would not even exist today replaced by a small company then called Microsoft Favorites. yahoo search engine now we just say Google it. Every company department exist because revenue is brought in by marketing. Even start up capital someone had to sell the idea to the investors.

comment 13 Tawan date : 18/01/2008 time : 20.17 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/tawan3

Yes, that is very true. But it still does not last. I can think of Zerox for making copies. No longer true today. Technology and the market moves on.

comment 12 Ian date : 18/01/2008 time : 19.39 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/anterian36

Tawan, some brand names become class names, hoover, nescafe, milton, horlicks, thermos such products rarely advertise. It is easier and commoner to say you hoovered the carpet than to say you vacuum cleaned it.

comment 11 Tawan date : 18/01/2008 time : 15.26 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/tawan3

People's memory is short. With global competition a product that does not have good marketing does not even have revenue for the production line. Wait until next year when the Chinese auto maker opens the Mexico factory for auto exports to the USA things are really going to heat up will be a very interesting marketing campaign that the Chinese will put together. I do not think it will include Mao though.

comment 10 Ian date : 18/01/2008 time : 15.06 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/anterian36

The poorer a product the more aggressively it is marketed. Which makes sense, a good product sells itself.

comment 9 Tawan date : 18/01/2008 time : 14.59 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/tawan3

Yes, the man with the whistle is alot cheaper than buying a new car with a camera for parking built in.

comment 8 Boracic date : 18/01/2008 time : 14.56 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/Boracic

Personally I would miss the serviced gas stations one of the last bastions of Thai society as we know it. And where on earth will we be without the man with the whistle, I'll never be able to park my car again?

comment 7 Boracic date : 18/01/2008 time : 14.56 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/Boracic

Personally I would miss the serviced gas stations one of the last bastions of Thai society as we know it. And where on earth will we be without the man with the whistle, I'll never be able to park my car again?

comment 6 Tawan date : 18/01/2008 time : 14.54 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/tawan3

Khun Boracic Yes, I am afraid it is more prestigious to be seen at a Japanese 7/11 than a Thai mini mart. As we know it is nothing prestigious to be seen eating at a McDonalds in America but it most definitely is in Asia it is not just fast food in Asia it is Brand marketing. Marketing for McDonalds in America is all about price in Asia it is all about image that people will pay for despite all the pundits' prediction that it is too expensive.

comment 5 Boracic date : 18/01/2008 time : 14.40 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/Boracic

Tawan The tragedy is that whenever these new things are introduced Thailand embraces them as wonders from the western world, which is a real pity. Look in any KFC, Pizza Hut, Starbucks etc and you will see these places jam packed with Thai's....(now getting fatter). It will be the same with gas stations especially if the price is lower. Once all gas stations are self serve the prices will just go up, so I guess you can fool most of the people all of the time. Near where I live there are some delightful Thai owned mini stores and the owners are so obliging. Tell them you drink Pepsi Max and they get Pespsi max from Tesco or somewhere, albeit they make a small profit. Very close by is a 7/11 which has the grumpiest staff and more expensive, yet the Thai's all go in there as opposed to the Thai mini mart just across the road. Why? Surely it's not prestigious to be seen in a 7/11....is it? I don't understand why Thai's support these things instead of their own. What's your theory?

comment 4 Tawan date : 18/01/2008 time : 07.10 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/tawan3

I am more concern with what are we going to lose next. There is always a solution we will be driving Toyota Hybrid Camry just like California.

comment 3 pichaya date : 17/01/2008 time : 23.35 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/pichaya see me also at http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/everythingthailand

Even though, labor cost here is still much cheaper than in the US, i'm not surprised this self-service petro station happening in Thailand. why? 1 as i have talked with oil companies i have learnt the fact that it's no longer an easy task to find workers to wok at the pumps. Working condition is not good as you may realise it ( you can be hit by a car, u get low pay, u work long hours, it;s very hot at the pump, and you can have a cancer working there for many years due to breathing the leaked oil vapour, there are also a high rate of robbing at pumps). as a consumer, i have also been fed up with the service provided by low motivated staff at most pumps, long queue and slow service completion at the stations and have been praying since sometime that we have self-service stations. i feel like it's a ploy by oil companies to eventually introduce the self-services, since they have often underemployed staff at the pumps, causing the services delivery to be slow and take more time than it should be.

comment 2 Ian date : 17/01/2008 time : 21.28 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/anterian36

I still think Beijing is the best example of surplus manpower (actually womanpower). An automatic lift which had an operator to push the buttons, and buses which have two conductors, one at the front and one at the back.

comment 1 earlsy date : 17/01/2008 time : 21.03 http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/secondtimearound

Whatever next? Are we going to lose the man standing next to the automatic ticket machine, taking the ticket out and handing it to us at the entrance to a car park?

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