Should We Ban Australia Day As Well?

[icyfroth]

We are after all celebrating the landing of the First Fleet on January 26th 1988...

Aldi pulls 'racist' T-shirts after online outrage

Discount supermarket chain Aldi has pulled an Australia Day T-shirt and singlet from its stores amid claims on social media that designs featured on the garments were racist.

Complaints that the range of promotional T-shirts with 'AUSTRALIA EST 1788' logos were racist led to people targeting @ALDIAustralia on Twitter and calling for them to be withdrawn.

The T-shirts and singlets were scheduled to go on sale on this week in the lead up to January 26.

Twitter users slammed the design as racist and culturally insensitive to indigenous Australians, who inhabited the continent for thousands of years before Europeans arrived.

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Perhaps we should abandon the celebration altogether.

[nero_bolt]

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@i-once-was-bump wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

I don't like the way they treat their customers like thiefs, is that part of the training? Inspecting bags at checkout?

It makes me feel uncomfortable.

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Donna try not to look so guilty then maybe they won't check your bags.

I don't have a problem with Aldi checking my bags, it is no different to when I shop in other supermarkets.

I set off alarms when I leave all supermarkets and no one has ever wanted to check why the alarms are going off.

@**meep** wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

Because it makes people feel uncomfortable, that's why. Most people are not thieves

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I don't mind at all.    I can't think of anyone I know that has objections to bag inspections.

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She does and you would have to ask yourself WHY she feels uncomfortable or objects to a standard bag search thats the LAW and condition of entry at every major store in the country....., 

If you are honest and dont shop lift you shouldnt have an objection at all to  staff members doing their jobs and preventing theft

[cherry*135]

Dick Smith is probably jealous because ALDI don't stock his brand.

ALDI is a low cost supermarket.. low cost = minimal staff = lower product prices... do you know any customers that complain about aldi layout? or are they happy to have a lower cost choice to buy their groceries from other than the 2 big supermarket giants?

ALDI stores are considerably smaller in size than Woolies or Coles stores.. goes then that they need less staff and staff they do have can multi task.

[**meep**]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

Well on one of my recent trips to aldi there was uproar when one of the customers starting grabbing things from their trolley and throwing it, but I will not hijack further lol

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Because of a bag inspection?    Such customers should be banned from shopping there.

[cherry*135]

Yes, people throwing stuff in supermarkets have bigger issues than not wanting staff to look in their bags.

This puzzles me:

not to mention all the people involved in putting up, moving around etc the shelves.

Don't supermarkets have fixed shelves? Or do you mean temporary displays?

Either way ALDI is a budget low cost supermarket so shouldn't be compared with Woolies and Coles.

We could compare how David Jones displays its products and how many staff it has compared the Reject Shop or the Hot Dollar shop (or any other discount shop).

[imastawka]

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@boris1gary wrote:

no they don't need anywhere near the amount of staff as woolies or coles, restocking is done by a one person using a palette jack. so no nightfill not to mention all the people involved in putting up, moving around etc the shelves. have a read what dick smith says about auldi, i couldn't agree more.

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For a start, it's Aldi, or are you talking about another store? Not a typo,you've done

it twice now

Then you need to read post #35

Then you need to stop listening to Dick Smith, he's an idiot IMO

[donnashuggy]

Some people have different ways of objecting to things I suppose 🙂 hopefully the message gets through to management

[**meep**]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

Some people have different ways of objecting to things I suppose 🙂 hopefully the message gets through to management

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Agree.  The management  has the right to refuse entry to customers who behave that way.   I do hope they dealt with that person appropriately.  They have a duty of care towards their customers. 

[happyroo_bunji]

Razor blades and batteries can be concealed easily in handbags.

As a checkout chook who was told I had to check customer bags or get in trouble from management, I didn't like it but I had to.

Like others have said, if you don't like, don't shop there.

[boris1gary]

it not actually a law, they just reserve the right to search your bag. they can't actually touch it at all. and yes sorry i have gone way off topic.

[boris1gary]

and theres the rub. a lot of posts on all these forums proclaim they want to support australian jobs and australian made. unless of course it costs them a little more.