Whirlybird

You really think he’s quit over cancelling product lines? Weren’t you predicting Woolworths would collapse over that or something?

No, I think - as does almost every media outlet - that he has "stepped down" (though we all know he was asked to jump before he is pushed) over the back to back controversies he oversaw and that he handled in the worst possible ways. I didn't predict that they would collapse, I predicted that they were going to "find out" after fucking around - and here we are, the CEO pushed off the ledge.

It’s a pretty predictable response to the competition enquiry about to ramp up over the next few months.

To fire the CEO before the competition enquiry has happened? That's predictable? lol. No, what would be more predictable is them firing him after the enquiry is finished and has laid out all the anti-competitive stuff they've done - not before.

Gemini is terrible. It gets so many things wrong, and is wrapped in all sorts of DEI bullshit.

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.

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.

Woolworths CEO reportedly “stepping down” after another trainwreck interview a month or so after his trainwreck Australia Day interviews 😂

I believe this is the “find out” part of FAFO.

Woolworths CEO stepping down after yet another train wreck interview. Seems all that virtue signalling came back to get him.

Stargate was 4:3, so there's that....

Virtue signalling isn’t worth that much.

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.

Honestly, do you think sales of that junk has been increasing?

It doesn't have to be increasing. It can be decreasing and still making them plenty of money.

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.

Bud light is doing terribly. Just because the parent company is going well it doesn’t mean every product of theirs is 😂. Again - 20 years as americas number 1 beer……..Dylan mulvaney partnership…….loses number 1 spot immediately, hasn’t regained it. Market share dropped. Competitors market shares increased. Bud light was irrevocably damaged from that stunt.

The overwhelming outrage at Woolies at the moment shows that it was a stupid decision. They did it for the wrong reasons and they will feel the pushback in one way or another. Will it be as big as bud lights? Not a chance with our supermarket duopoly, but they will lose customers and the stunt won’t gain them any new ones.

So there is a cost to them.