Is it woke to complain about supermarket profits

[Devil's advocate]

As the title.

Are we woke to complain about supermarket profits.

I don't mind them making a profit but I'm angry about silly discounting of various food at Xmas. So I presume, I'm woke?

 

[Mek]

No, that is not being “woke”.

 

[Danllan]

As the title.

Are we woke to complain about supermarket profits.

I don't mind them making a profit but I'm angry about silly discounting of various food at Xmas. So I presume, I'm woke?

Only if you ascribe the profit to their being successfully run by white people - while oppressing others...

 

[7610 super q]

Don't supply them.
I can count very, very few that have successfully supplied them for 20 years or more.
You have to be either very niche ( which lasts 18 months at most before others jump on the bandwagon ), or very very big to be able to dictate your own terms.
Otherwise, don't bother.

 

[M-J-G]

Look up the meaning of Woke and decide for yourself, many people use it inappropriately, in fact it's usually classed as an awareness/alertness to injustice but it is most commonly used to describe those with a distinct lack of awareness of such things.

Supermarkets are a business that will shaft people if it's in the interest of their success, I wouldn't say that's an injustice as most people deal with them by choice, there are other options.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Only if you ascribe the profit to their being successfully run by white people - while oppressing others...

I suppose that is quite a good description of supermarkets, they are run by white people & oppress suppliers.

ASDA owned by British born Asians now so British Asians now oppressing suppliers, Pritti Patel also quite oppressing.

 

[Lowland1]

I suppose that is quite a good description of supermarkets, they are run by white people & oppress suppliers.

ASDA owned by British born Asians now so British Asians now oppressing suppliers, Pritti Patel also quite oppressing.

I went to school with a man called Andy Bond he was CEO of Asda for a few years. They are under intense pressure from their shareholders to make more money year in year out. Its just the way of the world. I went for a job in Lincolnshire about 30 years ago managing a farm that supplied a big potato group that supplied Tescos. When the owner told me this i gave him the spiel that the supermarkets are crooks cheating the farmer. He took into the yard showed me his new tractors took me round the farm in his new Range Rover and told me it was all thanks to Tescos.(i didn’t get the job). For the last 20 years i’ve grown for the supermarkets and done very well. The cream comes from the wholesale markets but the Supermarkets take volume and that’s where your bills get paid. Complaining about Supermarkets profits is nonsense but complaining about Amazon or Apple profits now that makes sense.

 

[tje]

As the title.

Are we woke to complain about supermarket profits.

I don't mind them making a profit but I'm angry about silly discounting of various food at Xmas. So I presume, I'm woke?

Considering Tescos and Marks & Spencer were founded by Jews you might get accused of being Anti-semtic .

 

[Devil's advocate]

Considering Tescos and Marks & Spencer were founded by Jews you might get accused of being Anti-semtic .

I doubt it.

As said the only gripe I have about super markets is the silly discounting & the market manipulation that goes with it.

As many have said we have a choice of how we earn our living & can buy shares in some of the super markets or work for them.

So to answer my own question. It is been a whinger rather than woke to complain about super markets.

I look at my own business & although it works well, I'm glad I followed parents advice to run the business as well as possible but diversify rather than expand into supplying super markets. If I had thousands of acres of grade one silt, I would have taken the super market route.

 

[manhill]

No, that is not being “woke”.

Wtf is 'woke' anyway?

 

[Farm buy]

Wtf is 'woke' anyway?

Like yourself I just Googled it,

 

[Devil's advocate]

Wtf is 'woke' anyway?

I think it is drawing attention to things that the right wing don't like. Although nowadays right & left at there extremes agree about many things.

 

[manhill]

Ah, so that's clear now.

 

[milkloss]

Play it like the lefties do: it's only woke if you want it to be.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Play it like the lefties do: it's only woke if you want it to be.

So is it good or bad to be woke?

I'm not sure, right wingers use it as an insult, but plenty of left wingers agree with them & many right wing people don't very confusing these days.

Should the pyramids be pulled down? they were built by slaves?

 

[tje]

So is it good or bad to be woke?

I'm not sure, right wingers use it as an insult, but plenty of left wingers agree with them & many right wing people don't very confusing these days.

Should the pyramids be pulled down? they were built by slaves?

All depends were the owners of the slaves white or not ?? The woke mob only ( it seems to me ) object to white people owning slaves ....

From the paintings on the Pyramids there isn't a clear cut answer to how white or brown the ancient Egyptians were ....

 

[grainboy]

As per Bristol,
Wokeism rules,
My thoughts would be to take away all that was built by the historical businessmen,
Bristol would then have no infrastructure.
Something these youngsters don’t realise.

 

[M-J-G]

The 4 dummies from Bristol are classed as woke by some, these idiots are not awake/alert/aware to racism, they are simply wanting to dream up racism and are to a point fuelling it.
They are anything but woke, and to describe them as such is flattering them by suggesting that the they have an awareness that they clearly don't.

To me they are social toxins

 

[Devil's advocate]

As per Bristol,
Wokeism rules,
My thoughts would be to take away all that was built by the historical businessmen,
Bristol would then have no infrastructure.
Something these youngsters don’t realise.

I tend to agree.

I'm from Barnsley & we have many great houses, public building etc built on exploitation of others, locally they would be poor white working in the pits, a few miles away poor whites working in textiles. A bit further Chatsworth & Harewood house, certainly slave profits from the West Indies paid for the construction of Harewood house.

Basically go back 200 years the rich exploited anyone they could.

But those building are now a monument to the working people that built them, so should be preserved most of the modern owners have been taxed & taxed again & taxed almost to death.

I totally condemn any one for harming statues, its a shame it was not quietly done years ago by the local councils & replaced with monuments to the working people of the time Black & White & Asian. In Barnsley it has been done & we have many tributes to mining disasters etc.