For years the company has competed with the supermarkets who have all manipulated our thinking that one shop fits all. But does it really?

The true cost of our wee bargain is being met by the 25,000 Woolworths employees, and possibly those of many other shops, losing their jobs.

We have all put the boot into this situation, which includes myself, but I reckon it’s now time for a rethink on shopping.

One day we may not have the choice where to shop.

Just like the demise of most fuel stations in Dundee. But remember this, at the height of the fuel charges, one supermarket was the most expensive. — Cynical Sooz.

The poll tax was hated as we all paid the same charge for local services.

The council tax is not fair as the lower earners pay a higher percentage of income than the rich.

Under the council tax, single householders get a rebate. Will this be abolished under a local income tax?

It would be unfair if people who have saved for their retirement by investing are taxed again on net income to pay a local income tax.

Those who have two pensions have paid both National Insurance and superannuation all their working lives.

It is not a matter of being “fortunate”, as Kevin Donnelly suggests, it is more a matter of choice regarding lifestyle during your working life.

If the SNP impose this local income tax, they will pay dearly at the polls. — R. F., Broughty Ferry.

We are told that Scotland would be the highest taxed part of Britain but at the same time the LIT would collect less money than the council tax.

Would someone who supports the council tax care to explain these contradictions? Or would it help if I pointed out to them — as they have conveniently forgotten — that one tax is replacing another not being added to?

It would also help if Labour and the Tories, who are working together to ensure that those of us on low wages stay paying more tax while ensuring millionaires pay less, tell us their alternatives.

Of course they won't because Labour’s alternative when introduced in Wales ended up with people paying more Council Tax. They’re awfy quiet about that aren’t they? — Political Connoisseur.

His comments were exactly what I was thinking when I read the article.

It’s no wonder the kids in this country are desperate to drink at such an early age when people continually try to make alcohol and public houses taboo.

I love the attitude of the folk abroad, who see visiting pubs and licensed restaurants as a family occasion where drink is available, but drink responsibly, and all members of the family (including the kids) have wine with their meal.

These kids are so used to being around alcohol that they don’t see it as such a big deal as in our own country, where it’s only natural for kids to rebel against something they are continually told by adults not to do.

As the previous writer mentioned, these kids are sitting in an environment, supervised by adults, learning that you can go to the pub without having to stumble out again.

We have taken our 13-year-old daughter for pub lunches since she was very small and continue to do so most weekends. She is also offered a Champagne on special occasions but has so far declined our offers.

I hope that by making alcohol a freely talked about subject, and not something that should be made such a big deal out of, she will see that it’s nothing exciting, or clever, or something you have to do in order to impress your peers.

I’m all in favour of the pub carrying on its lunchtime trade and, as a resident of Broughty Ferry, agree that Councillor Wallace should really be concerning himself with more important issues. — C. C., Broughty Ferry.

Recently, while waiting for a bus at the stops outside the City Churches, the SmartBus display sign shown the next bus as “due”.

The bus, though, didn’t appear, and the display moved on to inform me of the time of the next bus.

This has happened on three of the last four times I have waited for a bus there.

On Monday at Ninewells, the sign said the No. 17 was “due” so after noting that the bus wasn’t at the stop, and being aware that Transport Dundee’s definition of “due” is different to mine, I caught a taxi.

The taxi went along Charleston Drive and as far as the Charleston Bar before turning down Station Brae — with no sign of the No. 17 bus.

Now, where I understand that organising buses to follow a timetable must be a difficult and complicated thing, do we really need to spend money on expensive electronic equipment to make up stories about when the next bus will be?

Would it not be cheaper and closer to the facts to just put up signs that say, “The next bus will be along sometime. Probably. But don’t count on it.” – Confirmed Car User.