Shot of the Day: Optometrist Parties

by Brendan on November 20, 2009

In Italy? Want to buy reading glasses at 12:30 am? No problem. You’re in Italy, after all.

I love that they take the trouble to close at 8 and reopen at 10 pm.

(Shot from Sardinia in July. More, and far better pictures from that in draft…)

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1 Doug November 22, 2009 at 4:57 pm: Completely unrelated, perhaps, but this week there was a health-services “fair” in Toronto and one of the booths had medical specialists from India, I believe it was, offering “modern medical procedures at third world prices”, if you can believe it. That’s a quote from one of the surgeons, heard on the CBC. What’s next - Nike going into sweat shop surgeries? I’m sure there’s an opportunity here.

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Brendan Reply:
November 22nd, 2009 at 10:12 pm
I’ve been thinking about something similar. Except instead of surgeries, it’s clothes.
B

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Doug Reply:
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
They’re on to you: there’s a guy from Singapore, Mr. Aswami or something, who comes to Vancouver (and Calgary, Winnipeg etc) every 6 weeks or so, gets a hotel room, advertises and takes measurements, e-mails them to Singapore, and your suit is delivered about 2 weeks later. Cheaper than local tailors, that’s for sure.

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Brendan Reply:
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
http://www.cashewman.com/2009/11/the-myth-of-the-scarce-idea/

B

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