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Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
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What "overwhelming outrage"? The murdoch media is trying to imply there is outrage, but honestly no one cares. There are fewer idiots driving around with tacky plastic australia day flags than I've ever seen.
Woolies did it because there's no money in it. No one is buying shitty imported plastic flags. Their PR people stupidly thought they could get a win with some virtue signalling, and they fucked up. The decision to discontinue those lines was all business.
You’re mistaking the real reason for the made up reason. They are stopping it for the virtue signalling, they’re using “declining sales” (with no more detail) to try and cover themselves.
You really genuinely believe that a retailer would cancel a profitable product line just for a once off headline? That's daft. Virtue signalling isn't worth that much. It's always a statement or gesture rather than an actual change to a product or business policy. "Lets add this rainbow to our facebook page" type stuff.
Absolutely guaranteed that this was a business decision, that PR made the mistake of trying to take advantage of. Honestly, do you think sales of that junk has been increasing?
It is to the companies that subscribe to the ESG/DEI stuff and want to virtue signal. It's also not just a once off headline, is it? Look at all the people like you going to bat for them, sticking up for the billion dollar company that's been making record profits by raising prices well above inflation for the last few years because they said some stuff has had "declining sales" - note they never said unprofitable anyway.
It doesn't have to be increasing. It can be decreasing and still making them plenty of money.