Gerry Harvey really didn't have much reason to party at the party at the Tedder Avenue flood appeal concert last Friday - Harvey Norman has taken a big hit in the floods also with about a dozen stores flooded, including Toowoomba, Ipswich, Fortitude Valley.
Still Harvey Norman and Myer kicked $750,000 into the concert fund-raiser kitty for the Premier's Flood Appeal.
I've discovered that the Harvey Norman claims department has processed more than 11,000 claims since Friday.
Makes me wonder how Harvey Norman will cope with the double whammy of recovering and meeting community demand.
Before the floods, Gerry Harvey was kicking up dirt about off-shore online shopping outlets stealing domestic retail business - which was suffering significantly, he said.
Do you think flood victims will do their shopping online to replace their damaged goods now - because there are bound to be way more than 11,000 customers who don't have warranties to claim on Harvey Norman isn't there?
