{"id":12523,"date":"2011-10-03T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12523"},"modified":"2011-10-03T08:39:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T12:39:54","slug":"how-not-to-do-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/10\/how-not-to-do-business","title":{"rendered":"How Not To Do Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12534\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12534\" title=\"thompson-citymarkets\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/thompson-citymarkets.jpg\" alt=\"City Markets and Thompson Trading Company\" width=\"205\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/thompson-citymarkets.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/thompson-citymarkets-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stand-Off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>City Market says it will see Thompson Trading  or other wholesalers in court if necessary to prove that if there was  any breach of an agreement they reached late last year, it was not  committed by the foodstore chain.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Finlayson, president of City Market&#8217;s parent company Bahamas  Supermarkets Limited (BSL), said the majority of local wholesalers have  been honoring the terms of their December 2010 agreement with the  foodstore chain.  He confirmed that the company had received a writ from  one wholesaler already and that he anticipated receiving a letter from  Thompson Trading&#8217;s lawyers &#8220;soon&#8221;, but that the company had a solid case  should resolution fall to the courts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we have to go to court, and in certain circumstances I guess we  are going to go to court, I want everybody to understand that this is  not a situation where we are going to go to court and the courts are  going to say we owe them and we pay them,&#8221; Finlayson told The Guardian  on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The court will decide.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people would think it is bad business to threaten your suppliers, but not City Markets chief Mark Finlayson, whose business blunders are legendary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[153,98,142],"class_list":["post-12523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2","tag-financial","tag-incompetence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}