Is it easy to get an internet connection at home nowadays? You know, this is a two-week story worthy of a miniseries - full of bewilderment at why this process consumes so many human resources, energy and time. Moreover, the company insists on cash payment.
People had already grown accustomed to Soviet rule, and on the topic of "informing" - which, although it remained taboo, would crop up in conversation from time to time when it was on people's minds - it became known that the local authorities, in exchange for reports, however true or fabricated, had been supplying informers with food.
As luck would have it, one morning I woke up with a blocked ear. I wouldn't say the blockage came as a surprise exactly, only that unlike other times, on this occasion it stubbornly refused to unblock. I tugged at the earlobe, pulled, pressed, pinched my nose and tried to blow - "to make it pop" - nothing.
The local Rēzekne district newspaper "Rēzeknes vēstis" has a column called "Hello! RV is listening!" In it, the newspaper's readers, residents of the city and district, have the opportunity to call the editorial office and "get things off their chest". Some topics even develop into a "chat" where readers exchange experiences or "pleasantries" from issue to issue.
A story about buying a camera - a saga that stretched over two months. It all began until one day the desire arose to evaluate the video functionality as well. In terms of video quality it was satisfactory, except for an intrusive noise in one (!) of the audio channels.
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AKKA/LAA's vision for the future - cultural events with pre-purchased poems, articles about authors without quoting their works, promoting only purchasable works of art, because whoever does not want to write for money and on its terms will be read (found) by nobody.
You have surely noticed promotional products that are either priced higher than indicated on the promotional sign, or at the till it turns out the new price has not been entered into the system. This time RIMI has taken its creativity a step further - indicating the promotional price not per unit, but per a fraction of a unit!
The fact that there are many pensioners in Latvia - yes, that is a fact. 570 thousand. Only the solutions offered by experts and the government - cutting pensions, mass procreation and other nonsense - are and remain nonsense that does not solve the problem but merely defers it to future generations.
It must be said - a long-awaited step from RIMI's side: loyalty cards. Although the benefit is measurable in a few cents, from a loyalty perspective it is a small but pleasant step towards the customer. But this story is not about that, but about an unpleasant incident in the RIMI car park.
Once there lived a fictional character - Jānītis. One day Jānītis was made redundant from a state institution job and without much hesitation decided to set up his own company. Drawing on savings accumulated from his civil service work, after nearly a month Jānītis had established his own company.