An Asian student mentioned cheap labor in China.
In October, I got an e-mail from TravelZoo that mentioned cheap flights to Miami; that landed me a $124 nonstop (including taxes) on Delta.
New York might have been the Christmas shopping destination of choice last year, but Istanbul offers significantly better value, not to mention cheaper flights.
At a moment when nostalgia for simpler (not to mention cheaper) times has swept through consumer culture (farm-to-table eating, straight-razor shaves), it's no surprise that the vintage/local/authentic/artisanal craze has checked into a hotel.
If such a clear cause and effect is unclear or ignored, how can you expect a connection between sustaining the basics of air and water to be made when a well paying drilling or pipeline job, not to mention "cheaper" gas, is in the balance?
Of late, this has meant greater wealth for the country and its citizens, not to mention cheaper goods for Americans (think Wal-Mart Stores ). Greater paper wealth in both countries translates into greater demand for conversion into gold.
On the tech side, some small towns in the UK are demanding to be removed from GPS maps, and we found that the Pleo robo-saurus is actually pretty fun, not to mention cheaper than an Aibo.
But rather than a traditional approach of creating a dedicated customer support office — something that takes time, is a significant cost and not particularly optimized — the service uses smartphones and Internet telephony trickery to make things easier and instant — not to mention cheaper.
And so, the relentless march of technology – not to mention cheap labour, unthinking consumerism and scandalous environmental devastation – goes on.
Then there are the works councils, in which German labor sets many of the basic rules of employment, not to mention cheap, superior and universal health care.
