The rot has been expunged! Any further price gouging will be a regrettable necessity in the current economy.
sounds of golden parachutes unfurling
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
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fuck him, but also this is blatant PR strategy.
"Oh we've gotten rid of the man at the top, see we're better now! No no, nothing institutional has or will change"
I'm sure he will be generously compensated for this performance.
This whole ordeal has been unnerving to Woolworths and they'll likely have to raise prices because of it.
Oh fuck, this is too funny. My wife and I watched the 4 Corners piece last night, and I said that the dumb cunt will probably be made to fall on his sword for being such an inept tool in the interview.
For context, the journo was presenting some observations from Rod Sims, the former head of the ACCC. This dickhead's response was to state that Sims was retired. Which he did... in 2022. Journo's response was on point, about how that didn't invalidate Sims' understanding of consumer law and rights. At which point, Mr Dumbfuck Fuckface got up and walked away.
Funniest shit I've seen in a while!
The sad thing? Because he "voluntarily" retired, I'm fairly certain this incapable moron will still get all his fucking shares and other benefits, as part of his contract.
Fuck Colesworth.
The sad thing? Because he “voluntarily” retired, I’m fairly certain this incapable moron will still get all his fucking shares and other benefits, as part of his contract.
He got paid $7mil last year, his shares etc are irrelevant unfortunately.
Whoever came up with the idea of putting him In a team member uniform and filming the interview in a supermarket should also "retire". Australians absolutely hate inauthentic behaviour, especially from the wealthy and powerful. Woolworths was never going to soften public opinion with that strategy and should have just gone full corporate damage limitation mode like Coles.
are you kidding? we are pathetically prostrate. Our culture is passive and obedient to a fault, and I mean that last part.
Remember the mining tax? we fucking love deep throating billionaires. Remember the outcry when extinction rebellion did literally anything? we hate authentic behaviour.
Those traits are pitfalls of being a high trust society.
what's the point of what you said? Like I don't mean it confrontationally just that I don't understand what the reason you wrote that down is.
To acknowledge the truth of what you said but offer an explanation. It's a fly in the ointment, if you like. No one wants to live in a low-trust society.
Ah right.
hmmm I don't think trust is monolithic and noncontextual. Like we've produced billionaires, our society has failed economically. That doesn't mean we have to distrust say, election officials. Or for example our police are shitbags but that doesn't mean we distrust our doctors.
@naevaTheRat @fosstulate Am I being overly cynical in thinking that it's no coincidence the CEO of Woolies steps down, just as the talk of inquires and regulatory reform heats up?
After all, if there's a public inquiry or a Royal Commission, and the head of Woolies is called to testify, they'll now honestly be able to say that they only just stepped into the role recently, and have no idea about the decisions their predecessor made.
Is that the mining tax which the Gillard government introduced after publicly declaring there would be no carbon tax? That whole saga was perceived as inauthentic behaviour by the electorate and they were punished for it.
No. It is the proposed mining tax where the Rudd government had the temerity of suggesting all that dirt belonged to all of Australia and those massive profits should be shared with the country. It wasn't even a bill, just raising the topic for discussion.
Then came a very successful (and in hindsight, cheap) media blitz by mining companies against the idea. Which in turn led to the Labor party dropping their leader only two and a half years into his first term.
You're thinking of the Emissions trading scheme, which the opposition very successfully smeared as a tax. It was never a tax. It was a quota system on the amount of pollution each company would make. It was also deeply flawed, because many of the biggest pollutors got a pass on their emissions.
Even if you want to call it a tax, Labor did not win a mandate from the population to go with just their own platform. They were sent in as a minority government, Australians had directed them to work with other parties like the Greens and their policies. You don't get to turn around and call that a broken election promise. They did what we told them to do.
The EMS was the spiritual successor to the Rudd government's mining tax. It was the same thing, as far as the electorate was concerned. As I said in my other reply, it doesn't matter whether they were technically different or even a tax at all. It matters how the public perceived that saga - Gillard said "no tax" then appeared to introduce a tax. That's inauthentic as far as voters are concerned.
are you sure it wasn't fear of mah jerbs and temporarily embarrassed millionaires voting against their own interest. Gillard was voted out because Australia hates change and especially hates women. We have one of the highest rates DV among similar countries. We fuuuuucking hated her because she was a woman, it had nothing to do with the mining tax or carbon tax.
Pick negative gearing, wealth taxes, free uni whatever we fucking suck.
Also mining tax was separate from the carbon tax you Dill. I misread your comment because I assumed you were smarter than you were.
it had nothing to do with the mining tax or carbon tax.
Yes it did. The "carbon tax" was one of several key issues jumped on by the Coalition to push the idea that Gillard was untrustworthy and inauthentic, which was a big problem for her considering she was seen as having stolen power by orchestrating a coup against a prime minister. She has directly acknowledged this herself. Watch 'The Killing Season', it was a massive problem for Labor. The fact that there were other problems for Labor during that election does not mean this was not one of them.
Also mining tax was separate from the carbon tax you Dill.
Can you read? I never said they were the same thing. I said the electorate perceived it to be inauthentic behaviour.
A retired old man, just like Rod Sims.
how funny is it that his entire careers legacy was defined in the 2 days before retirement haha.
suck shit to the arrogant peice of shit
Public listing of grocery retail is a key cause of these problems. Listed food has the wrong owners, by virtue of being listed in the first place, and they're pursuing their priorities at the direct expense of shoppers and suppliers.
If you suspect you're being fucked on a favourite purchase category, direct your custom elsewhere (Aldi, Costco, family run) and review your consumption rate. If I see unreasonable price rises, I know I'm buying less as a rule.
retire my arse. he was obliterated by the board over his shit interview. and the loss I guess
TIL Australia’s had a similar issue as the US did with Columbus Day, now often renamed Indigenous Peoples’ Day here.
Fuck around, find out. Good riddance.
I'm eagerly awaiting them to be all in on Australia Day next year 🤣
This interview was deadset one of the absolutely worst interviews you could ever see.