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Shops and schools

smooch0 said:
it must be targeted to the mums and dads who pay big $$$ every week for there familys shopping, i kinda wish they wouldn't do it, its like really shitty sports equipment in the add and there making so much money any they give a handfull of average sporting equipment to make the dads and mums shop there instead of any were else... there just making it to close, tightening the grip, gaahhhh. Ausie farmers direct is good and any thing else other than coles or woolworths.
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It hasn't changed my shopping patterns in the slightest - I'm gonna shop at woolies regardless. I think you will find this attitude commonplace - ie. to shop at the major supermarket that is the most convenient.

As for Aussie Farmers Direct - well it's a nice idea but just a marketing ploy at the end of the day. The produce is nothing special and doesn't come from any farmers whatsoever as far as i can tell - just another big warehouse at Homebush...
 
i just hate it when the checkout people ask me if i want ....whatever school voucher thing.
it's like "do i look like i have kids? i only come here to shoplift and buy grapefruit juice!"
i hate coles and woolworths (and kids! and sports!) but...i dunno, it could be worse.

what i do have a problem with are similar "goodwill gestures" presented in massive advertising campaigns by mining companies trying to pass themselves off as beneficent overlords of kindness and prosperity, providing for all australians (rather than making billions off our country's resources, polluting our water, destroying our wilderness, selling our raw materials overseas where they're cheaper to process and campaigning rabidly to avoid paying super profits taxes).

or lotteries companies pretending that they are some kind of charity community goodwill organisation (as opposed to providing services to gambling addicts).

or mcdonalds pretending to have turned their backs on junk food - now you can get a salad because we have a social conscience!

no you don't - fuck off.
 
spacejunk said:
i just hate it when the checkout people ask me if i want ....whatever school voucher thing.
it's like "do i look like i have kids? i only come here to shoplift and buy grapefruit juice!"
i hate coles and woolworths (and kids! and sports!) but...i dunno, it could be worse.
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The check out people are only doing their job. They might feel the same way as you do.

what i do have a problem with are similar "goodwill gestures" presented in massive advertising campaigns by mining companies trying to pass themselves off as beneficent overlords of kindness and prosperity, providing for all australians (rather than making billions off our country's resources, polluting our water, destroying our wilderness, selling our raw materials overseas where they're cheaper to process and campaigning rabidly to avoid paying super profits taxes).
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If we didn't export coal and other minerals, we would have next to no money. Don't get me wrong, it's not good for the environment for the reasons you described, however we simply can't do without it.

or lotteries companies pretending that they are some kind of charity community goodwill organisation (as opposed to providing services to gambling addicts).
or mcdonalds pretending to have turned their backs on junk food - now you can get a salad because we have a social conscience!
no you don't - fuck off.
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I'm not sure what the lottery companies are up to since I don't really follow the news, but I think the reason added McDonalds added salads to their menu was because of what you said, they sell salad so they aren't AS evil. But of course, nobody forces you to eat fast food anyway, and I doubt the people that eat maccas all the time are going to change to a salad :P It's simply a corporate strategy, they did/do get sued a lot in America, seems like an easy way around it. Just my opinion though.
 
^ you eat at mcdonalds? you could probably get a preservative-free salad wrap from a local deli for less $$ ;)
there is something not right about how mcd's lettuce doesn't wilt or go brown.
 
If I'm really time-poor, yeah I'll drive through a McD's and grab a salad wrap - I'm not going to beat myself up over it. I don't eat there often, I was more saying it's unusual for someone to order something off the healthy choice menu.
 
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