Supermarket suckers

Editor,

When will supermarket and other retail customers realise they are being taken for a ride by the 99 cent pricing specialists all too common today?

When items are priced at $xx.99 only the dollar part can be altered and in minimum $1 increments up or down. Watch out. bureaucratic risk-aversion was eight lives. Throughout the country in a million different situations the cost is less dramatic but just as real, and colossal.

Stifling individual initiative, creativity, and productivity, and imposing massive costs through the imposition of a zillion stupid rules and regulations implemented and overseen by an army of redundant unproductives, it’s no wonder the country is at a standstill.

(Letter abridged) been used, I am fairly sure based on my understanding of the system and doing a couple of tests, that North City would have won the game.

This is because the target score would have been much greater under Duckworth Lewis which takes account of the fact Upper Hutt were 9 wickets down and therefore had virtually used up all their resources.

The article alongside by Joseph Romanos was very interesting as usual. Like Joseph, I too get excited to receive my copy of the New Zealand Cricket Almanack each year. It gives me bedtime reading over the summer.

It is also not like Joseph to get a name wrong, but the Otago wicketkeeper who was the last genuine tailend batsman/wicketkeeper was Barry Milburn rather than Bruce Milburn.

While you may not find some things on Cricinfo, you will find almost anything on Cricket Archive including not only international, first class and Hawke Cup cricket in NZ, but also under-age tournaments.