I wish mate haha
My local Woolworths Metro in Surry Hills in Sydney now has a green Woolworths branded hand sanitiser at the front door. It looks very professional and works as intended.
This has replaced the poorly manufactured machine that squirted liquid all over the floor several seconds after you put your hand under it.
I imagine there is a business somewhere that making a fortune as it builds one of these for each of the 995 supermarkets.
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The new ones will be rolling out to every store. The other one was never meant to be permanent, just a temporary solution while this one was being manufactured.
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I hope the screens and sanitisers remains after this is gone, people need to be more aware of hygiene and space more generally especially during flu season
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Sanitisers yes. I hope the screens dont personally as they make it so hard to hear the customer. Many times a day I have to put my head around the side so i can hear what they are saying.
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Put some holes through to hear ?
The screens at ALDI are the worse, they are so thick & cover most of the checkout.
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I doubt the screens will be going anywhere unless businesses are only CAPEXing them over the course of 12-24 months.
Im pretty loud haha you wont have to do that if you served me.
Personally i hope the ones at self serve check outs stay though.
Pointless CAPEXing it over 12 months - some of what iâve seen would be hard to justify CAPEXing for less then 2 or 3 years
Big W has had a decent few months during the pandemic. Earnings in the 10 weeks up to June 14 surging by 27.8 percent. Woolworths will report its year results on the 27th of August.
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Near 3 months at 30% up is not in line with Target and Kmart which is quite interesting. Wesfarmers were very cautious around its Kmart Group update last week and cited concerns within the market. But itâs competition itâs off the scales. I assume Wesfarmers problems are itâs own doing.
I wonder if that is largely because Kmart has no stock on the shelf and well nobody shops at Target anymore anyway. Everyone just ended up at Bigw.
Impressive performance regardless.
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For decades weâve managed fine without screens. Keep the sanitisers though. An infected person has likely wiped their hand on their nose or coughed into their mouth minutes before handing the products over for scanning, so screens arenât the answer.
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I donât really mind the screens at the self serve checkouts because they arenât obviously intrusive. Aldiâs seem to provide comprehensive protection (theyâd probably work well as robbery prevention with the operator effectively enclosed in a cage!), while many other screens Iâve seen at retailers are almost worthless, as customers usually continue stand offset to the screen placement after handing the clerk their items (so theyâd be able to sneeze right onto the clerk). The screens at Coles and Woolies fall under this bracket.
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Woolworths at Kogarah have just run out of toilet paper and it was not the best week to have Quilton 8 roll packs on special.
Gladys - itâs time to close the border. I cannot go through March and April 2020 again.
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Melbourneâs Caribbean Market has closed down permanently, falling victim to COVID-19. The fruit and vegetable market, located under a giant shed at Caribbean Gardens in Scoresby in the cityâs outer east, had been running for 55 years.
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Woolworths pays million-dollar penalty for spamming
Woolworths Group Limited has paid a million-dollar infringement notice and agreed to a court-enforceable undertaking with the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) in response to significant breaches of spam laws.
The infringement notice for $1,003,800 is the largest ever issued by the ACMA.
The ACMA found more than five million breaches of the Spam Act 2003 by Woolworths when it sent marketing emails to consumers after they had unsubscribed from previous messages. The emails were sent between October 2018 and July 2019.
ACMA Chair Nerida OâLoughlin said the investigation found Woolworthsâ systems, processes and practices were inadequate to comply with spam rules.
âThe spam rules have been in place for seventeen years and Woolworths is a large and sophisticated organisation. The scale and prolonged nature of the non-compliance is inexcusable,â Ms OâLoughlin said.
âWoolworths failed to act even after the ACMA had warned it of potential compliance issues after receiving consumer complaints.
âAustralians have the right to unsubscribe from marketing emails that they do not want to receive. In this case, consumers claimed that they had tried to unsubscribe on multiple occasions or for highly personal reasons, but their requests were not actioned by Woolworths because of its systems, processes, and practices.
âOur enforcement action, a substantial infringement notice and a comprehensive three-year court-enforceable undertaking, is commensurate to the nature of the conduct, number of consumers impacted and the lack of early and effective action by Woolworths.
âThe ACMAâs actions should serve as a reminder to others not to disregard customersâ wishes when it comes to unsubscribing from marketing material,â Ms OâLoughlin said.
In its court-enforceable undertaking Woolworths has committed to appoint an independent consultant to review its systems, processes, and procedures, to implement improvements, and to report to the ACMA. Woolworths has also committed to undertake training, and to report all non-compliance it identifies to the ACMA for the term of the undertaking.
âThe ACMA will be actively monitoring Woolworthsâ compliance with the spam laws and the commitments it has made to the ACMA,â Ms OâLoughlin said.
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Thatâll keep the local radio stations going for another financial year
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