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| moon23 |
Posted - 31/03/2008 : 15:41:27
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a regular shopper at Waitrose and will continue to be so due to the excellent quality products you offer. It’s nice that whereas other supermarkets constantly seek cheaper and consequently nastier food to sell to us that Waitrose values quality and issues such as sustainability. However there are three issues that have been spoiling my otherwise happily Bourgeois shopping experince:
Firstly there seems to be a rather large amount of packaging on some of your products, in view of the dangers that plastic waste poses to the environment I wonder why it is necessary to incase tomatoes for instance in a plastic tray and then wrap them in plastic? What is wrong with selling them lose and providing paper bags in store rather than plastic ones? You could also start charging for bags like M&S they are spot on with that policy. Also till operators always try and wrap products up in extra smaller bags when I get to the till. What is this unhealthy obsession with plastic? Do you realize that Turtles maybe chocking to death on this plastic as you read?
Secondly in my local store in ***** there is a young lady who works often on the tills. This young lady has dyed pink hair and a nose ring. Unfortunately she is made to wear a blond wig and put a plaster over her nose. I can perhaps see the reasons why wearing plasters over piercing might be appropriate for food preparation but wearing it on the till is frankly ridiculous. It upsets me to think that this young Lady has had her dignity removed by being made to wear a humiliating wig and offended that Waitrose would pander to the petty and narrow minded people that would be offended by an individuals choice to express themselves aesthetically in any manner they chose fit. Could you please confirm whether this is a policy of Waitrose or merely a petty minded and bigoted manager with fascistic tendencies acting on their own initiative?
Thirdly I return to the environmental agenda to ask why it is necessary to leave on so much lighting at night time. I appreciate you may want to give the impression that the local Waitrose store is always bright clean and active to avoid ruffians trying to break in at night, but couldn’t at least some of the lights be turned off? I invest a considerable amount of personal time in making sure my electrical appliances within the home are turned off only to have my smug sense of environmentalism ruined by walking past your store at night and viewing rows and rows of tills left on with their log in screens taunting me.
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| moon23 |
Posted - 23/04/2008 : 12:24:12
Far more crazy then that. |
| Daveb |
Posted - 21/04/2008 : 16:39:14
Are you sure you are not a Black & White Minstral? |
| moon23 |
Posted - 21/04/2008 : 16:31:53
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Originally posted by Daveb
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Originally posted by moon23
I work full time and my spare time is mainly taken up with the NO2ID campaign and morris dancing. I'm on a waiting list for an allotment which I’m going to share with my sister-in-law. If I didn't have to work full time then I would spend my time growing my own food. It's a catch 22 situation that is hard to break out of.
Other events being held around Sussex include Brighton Morris Men's St George's Day celebrations at Rose Hill Tavern, Rose Hill, Brighton, at 7.30pm on April 23.
Sounds good, Brighton dance both cotswold and some borders dances with sticks. Although I just dance Borders so i'm blacked up with a top hat and a big stick. |
| thedelboy |
Posted - 19/04/2008 : 18:57:39
AS a "Scotman"by birth I celebrate "ST Andrew" AS I live in "england I clebrate "ST George s dAy" but as a hedonist I celebrate every day |
| Daveb |
Posted - 19/04/2008 : 13:54:14
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Originally posted by moon23
I work full time and my spare time is mainly taken up with the NO2ID campaign and morris dancing. I'm on a waiting list for an allotment which I’m going to share with my sister-in-law. If I didn't have to work full time then I would spend my time growing my own food. It's a catch 22 situation that is hard to break out of.
Other events being held around Sussex include Brighton Morris Men's St George's Day celebrations at Rose Hill Tavern, Rose Hill, Brighton, at 7.30pm on April 23.
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| Fluffy Sheep |
Posted - 03/04/2008 : 22:01:17
Fubar, brilliant idea to get the other staff to wear white wigs and sticking plaster! This would only work if one of them was a certain type of character who`d get the others to follow...
Back to the nursing home (sorry!) we had a great chap who was `handyman`, growled like a grumpy old bear but had a great kind gentle heart... he had this big grey beard that had its own ecosystem, and that mad matron hated it, and him. Probably flushed with self-importance at her success in covering care staff with sticking-plasters, she issued an edict "Beards Are Banned!" I won`t quote the handyman, but let you all imagine his comments being delivered in his native Yorkshire accent, and whilst waving a hammer...
A male care assistant (who had great character and wit, and often chatted with the Boss-man who owned the place, Bless`im))started growing a beard, in response to that edict, and it was a great day to be at work, the day that miserable trout of a matron noticed the Boss had a beard too...
Both the male carer and the grizzly-bear/teddy-bear Yorkshire handyman outstayed that matron in employment there! |
| moon23 |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 13:48:22
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Originally posted by No Expert
Look at this
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/consumer/caring/article.html?in_article_id=428740&in_page_id=511
Flying fish 5000 miles? That should lead you to boycott it moon. But you won't besacuse shopping there suits you. In the same way that driving a car suits other people.
Thanks for this information NO Expert. I would write again to Waitrose, but seeing as I just have they will think I’m a crazy person (if they don't already).
I live in a small market town and I shop at the market on Saturday and Waitrose. It's actually easier to buy sustainable food from Waitrose than the market, as Waitrose label things like country of origin etc. They also sell local food which is good. As far as Waitrose as a supermarket goes I think they are pretty good on the issues I care abou, however as you have shown they are still a large supermarket and exploitative in their nature.
Of course we all have to do things we sometimes would prefer not to. I'm sure many people with cars would like to give them up if their was a feasible public transport solution.
I work full time and my spare time is mainly taken up with the NO2ID campaign and morris dancing. I'm on a waiting list for an allotment which I’m going to share with my sister-in-law. If I didn't have to work full time then I would spend my time growing my own food. It's a catch 22 situation that is hard to break out of.
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| No Expert |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 13:03:21
Look at this
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/consumer/caring/article.html?in_article_id=428740&in_page_id=511
Flying fish 5000 miles? That should lead you to boycott it moon. But you won't besacuse shopping there suits you. In the same way that driving a car suits other people. |
| Borninhove |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 12:36:48
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Originally posted by No Expert
Anyway, shouldn't moon be growing his own food?
Ahem!
And talking if food, here's a gratuitous picture of Nigella:
"Here ... let me drizzle a little more hot chocolate fudge over your nuts ..." |
| No Expert |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 10:19:02
Anyway, shouldn't moon be growing his own food? |
| FUBAR |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 09:40:48
A pity you can't get a load of people to wander the shop in pink wigs and plasters. Of course you would hope that the small minded manager wouldn't take it out on the girl in question.......
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| Horseman7 |
Posted - 01/04/2008 : 17:06:26
Well Moon, I frequently disagree with you or think you're being pompous but this is a star letter (despite a few spelling errors, allowed through in a dyslexic frenzy of expression).
7/10 for spelling.
10/10 for content.
Moons and Pink Ladies rule okay.
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| FUBAR |
Posted - 01/04/2008 : 10:33:32
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the Partner aka Girl has reached and agreement with her duty manager under their 'Buisness Dress Policy'.
As I have to wear a work decreed uniform I have always felt that the managers should wear the same outfits. They usually just show how out of touch and daft most managers choice of clothing is. It is part of the dehumanizing of the workforce, goes along with the old personnel department now being called "HUMAN RESOURCES"--you are just a clone not a person...................
A bit silly as the white wig and the plaster probably attract more attention than her original look does, hardly blends in does she... |
| moon23 |
Posted - 01/04/2008 : 09:42:03
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Originally posted by Fluffy Sheep
Oh Moon, I so agree with your view on the till-girl having to wear a wig and a nose-plaster. The wig idea is completely ridiculous. The nose-plaster is bad enough.
At a nursing home where I once worked there were two care assistants, friend who worked well together...the matron there insisted they both wore plasters over an eyebrow ring each, and a nose-stud each. It looked awful, as if they`d been in a brawl! Bloody stupid nonsense!
My grand-daughter has ear-studs - neat little specks, but she has to wear plasters over them at school for PE. It causes more potential injury ripping these off after a PE lesson, but the sticking plaster fanatics do seem to hold sway at the moment.
They said the Partner aka Girl has reached and agreement with her duty manager under their 'Buisness Dress Policy'.
So I told them their Buisness Dress Policy was insulting to their customers as it assumed they were so narrow minded as to be put off by the colour of someones hair.
Moon23 sticking it to the man.
FACT |
| moon23 |
Posted - 01/04/2008 : 09:40:09
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Originally posted by No Expert
Nice, but you appear to have the long time no see can't tell the difference between 'loose' and 'lose' disease.
Yes this is a commone mistake for dyslexic people like myself.
Sign of the tmies |
| camelot |
Posted - 01/04/2008 : 05:17:13
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Originally posted by moon23
Dear Sir/Madam,
Firstly there seems to be a rather large amount of packaging on some of your products, in view of the dangers that plastic waste poses to the environment I wonder why it is necessary to incase tomatoes for instance in a plastic tray and then wrap them in plastic? What is wrong with selling them lose and providing paper bags in store rather than plastic ones? You could also start charging for bags like M&S they are spot on with that policy. Also till operators always try and wrap products up in extra smaller bags when I get to the till. What is this unhealthy obsession with plastic? Do you realize that Turtles maybe chocking to death on this plastic as you read?
Here in the USA, we (my wife and I) have started bringing our own reusable bags to the store after pressure (read enlightenment) from our neighbors. It does make sense. And now the locale food "super" markets are even selling the reusable bags for much less than cost. Its a win/win for us and them. As you suggest, there is still a great deal of packaging "on the shelf" ...
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| Fluffy Sheep |
Posted - 31/03/2008 : 21:13:46
Oh Moon, I so agree with your view on the till-girl having to wear a wig and a nose-plaster. The wig idea is completely ridiculous. The nose-plaster is bad enough.
At a nursing home where I once worked there were two care assistants, friend who worked well together...the matron there insisted they both wore plasters over an eyebrow ring each, and a nose-stud each. It looked awful, as if they`d been in a brawl! Bloody stupid nonsense!
My grand-daughter has ear-studs - neat little specks, but she has to wear plasters over them at school for PE. It causes more potential injury ripping these off after a PE lesson, but the sticking plaster fanatics do seem to hold sway at the moment. |
| No Expert |
Posted - 31/03/2008 : 21:07:52
Nice, but you appear to have the long time no see can't tell the difference between 'loose' and 'lose' disease. |
