What cheeses me off

Dealing with Amex who changed the date of my travel credit even though the email about changes said they wouldn't

Doing a chat with them and I asked for a transcript - they said that will take 7-10 business days and it will be emailed to me. FFS

They said I can do screenshots and halfway through taking screenshots it disappeared and chat is not available šŸ˜­
 
What is wrong with bogans' brains (Yes I know it's Brisbane, where I live as well.)

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Police have been called to Woolworths Metro in Teneriffe following multiple reports of someone setting off a flare inside the building and graffitiing pro-Australia Day tags on the walls.
Officers were called the Commercial Rd business just after 5am on Monday to discover the graffiti, which read ā€œ5 days 26 Jan ā€¦ Woolies cough* uā€."


"Residents have already taken to social media responding to the morningā€™s incident.

ā€œWhatā€™s going on in the hood!!! Drove round to Woolies Metro this morning and it had been vandalised and broken into,ā€ one commenter said. Police were called to an incident at the Woolworths Metro in Teneriffe, with reports a flare had been let off inside and Australia Day graffiti found inside. ā€œSome moron spray painted anti-Woolies Jan 26 messages and other possible damage,ā€ said another."

Grafitti against Woolworths for not stocking poor selling chinese made tacky Australa Day rubbish which is just desigend for landfill. Definition of stupidity IMHO.
 
TheRealTMA said:
What is wrong with bogans' brains (Yes I know it's Brisbane, where I live as well.)

"
Police have been called to Woolworths Metro in Teneriffe following multiple reports of someone setting off a flare inside the building and graffitiing pro-Australia Day tags on the walls.
Officers were called the Commercial Rd business just after 5am on Monday to discover the graffiti, which read ā€œ5 days 26 Jan ā€¦ Woolies cough* uā€."


"Residents have already taken to social media responding to the morningā€™s incident.

ā€œWhatā€™s going on in the hood!!! Drove round to Woolies Metro this morning and it had been vandalised and broken into,ā€ one commenter said. Police were called to an incident at the Woolworths Metro in Teneriffe, with reports a flare had been let off inside and Australia Day graffiti found inside. ā€œSome moron spray painted anti-Woolies Jan 26 messages and other possible damage,ā€ said another."

Grafitti against Woolworths for not stocking poor selling chinese made tacky Australa Day rubbish which is just desigend for landfill. Definition of stupidity IMHO.
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I don't know if you saw this but it was teenage boys setting aerosol cans alight. Not only did it destroy the Woolies but a number of other small boutique shops some of which will never recover or return
 
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TheRealTMA said:
What is wrong with bogans' brains (Yes I know it's Brisbane, where I live as well.)

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Police have been called to Woolworths Metro in Teneriffe following multiple reports of someone setting off a flare inside the building and graffitiing pro-Australia Day tags on the walls.
Officers were called the Commercial Rd business just after 5am on Monday to discover the graffiti, which read ā€œ5 days 26 Jan ā€¦ Woolies cough* uā€."


"Residents have already taken to social media responding to the morningā€™s incident.

ā€œWhatā€™s going on in the hood!!! Drove round to Woolies Metro this morning and it had been vandalised and broken into,ā€ one commenter said. Police were called to an incident at the Woolworths Metro in Teneriffe, with reports a flare had been let off inside and Australia Day graffiti found inside. ā€œSome moron spray painted anti-Woolies Jan 26 messages and other possible damage,ā€ said another."

Grafitti against Woolworths for not stocking poor selling chinese made tacky Australa Day rubbish which is just desigend for landfill. Definition of stupidity IMHO.
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Not rationalising the vandalism. People these days are mindless. But it's not really about the tacky goods but the message, isn't it. it takes away consumer choice. Effectively censoring it. What's next?
 
TheRealTMA said:
....... Woolworths Metro in Teneriffe following multiple reports of someone setting off a flare inside the building and graffitiing pro-Australia Day tags on the walls.
Officers were called the Commercial Rd business just after 5am on Monday to discover the graffiti, which read ā€œ5 days 26 Jan ā€¦ Woolies cough* uā€."
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I drove by Woolies HQ the other day and someone drilled an Australian flag into their entry signage, the very large one thats made out of stone so some damage would have been done to attach it.

I didnt bother to do go back and take a pic
 
Pushka said:
Not rationalising the vandalism. People these days are mindless. But it's not really about the tacky goods but the message, isn't it. it takes away consumer choice. Effectively censoring it. What's next?
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Not really. One can still buy tacky landfill goods from many sources. Donā€™t see why they ā€œmustā€ stock cheap Asian made rubbish when it doesnā€™t sell anymore?
 
TheRealTMA said:
Not really. One can still buy tacky landfill goods from many sources. Donā€™t see why they ā€œmustā€ stock cheap Asian made rubbish when it doesnā€™t sell anymore?
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Maybe I'm being overly cynical (and without wanting or seeking to initiate any sort of debate on the topic), but my gut feel is that it's more an exercise in the Woolies execs pondering "...how can we make a political statement without actually making a political statement?" Saying it's not selling anymore might be 100% true. Then again, it might be a convenient excuse to minimise public backlash. But maybe I'm totally wide of the mark?

As you say though, there will still be plenty of places for people to source their Australia Day paraphernalia if they really want it for the day.
 
TheRealTMA said:
Not really. One can still buy tacky landfill goods from many sources. Donā€™t see why they ā€œmustā€ stock cheap Asian made rubbish when it doesnā€™t sell anymore?
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Ok. WCMO is when retailers tell us that items aren't selling anymore but that is because they took them off the shelves quietly long before their announcement. Fantales comes to mind. The consumer has no way of challenging those statements and they simply aren't always true.

Surely you don't believe what comes out of Woolworths PR machine?

Whether or not you can source them elsewhere is irrelevant.

This isn't to get into a discussion on Jan 26 because that is fraught. It's about a retailer making social statements
 
Pushka said:
WCMO is when retailers tell us that items aren't selling anymore but that is because they took them off the shelves long before their announcement.
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Or when the real reason is that they demanded more money from the supplier for shelf space and the supplier refused to pay up, so the big chain simply drops the supplier. Nothing to do with sales numbers. Nothing to do with customer preference. Just punishment for some smaller company refusing to pay extortionate fees.
 
Pushka said:
Ok. WCMO is when retailers tell us that items aren't selling anymore but that is because they took them off the shelves quietly long before their announcement. Fantales comes to mind. The consumer has no way of challenging those statements and they simply aren't always true.

Surely you don't believe what comes out of Woolworths PR machine?

Whether or not you can source them elsewhere is irrelevant.

This isn't to get into a discussion on Jan 26 because that is fraught. It's about a retailer making social statements
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No Iā€™m not getting into Jan 26 etc but if thereā€™s a buck in it they would sell it. My quoted was about fake nationalism as a excuse for frankly just stupid behaviour. I must add egged on by dog whistling politicians.
 
TheRealTMA said:
No Iā€™m not getting into Jan 26 etc but if thereā€™s a buck in it they would sell it. My quoted was about fake nationalism as a excuse for frankly just stupid behaviour. I must add egged on by dog whistling politicians.
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I dunno. The East coast lads seem to get far more involved in it than South Aussies do. Used to be much better when there was an Aussie cricket Test match on. And I suspect Woolies made assumptions about referendums and didn't order anything In time.

WCMO. The people who schedule Test cricket and take SA for granted.
 
Pushka said:
People these days are mindless. But it's not really about the tacky goods but the message, isn't it. it takes away consumer choice. Effectively censoring it. What's next?
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There are lots of retailers that can sell the stuff. Woollies has said it's because they're not making money. They have a duty to their shareholders to make money. It's not their role to give consumes choice. It's to make money.
 

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