Post covid-19 companies to use/boycott
im going to try and use small local businesses rather than national and internal companies.
brew dog - now making hand sanitizer
m&n - making scrubs
boycott
wetherspoons - refusal to pay staff
sports direct - claiming to be offering a key service
Burger King - using the virus as an excuse to withhold money from suppliers
any more for either list?
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Tbf, going by the staff I've encountered in Spoons, they don't deserve to be paid and that's when they're open and working19
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A few companies helping with the effort in this artical - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/28/british-retailers-and-manufacturers-in-wartime-effort-to-fight-covid-192
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Charlton athletic dodgy ownersTodds_right_hook said:Some companies are changing the products they produce to help the effort, others are being dicks! There will definitely be companies I won’t use again and some that I will now use.
im going to try and use small local businesses rather than national and internal companies.Companies I will be using
brew dog - now making hand sanitizer
m&n - making scrubs
boycott
wetherspoons - refusal to pay staff
sports direct - claiming to be offering a key service
Burger King - using the virus as an excuse to withhold money from suppliers
any more for either list?5 -
I'll quickly do this in list formi_b_b_o_r_g said:A few companies helping with the effort in this artical - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/28/british-retailers-and-manufacturers-in-wartime-effort-to-fight-covid-190 -
Airbus
Dyson
Ford
Rolls-Royce
All pitching in with expertise and resources.
HSBC - Helping ventilator manufacturers by offering fast-track loan applications, cheaper interest rates and extended repayment terms. *Edit – Still making profit from it. Right or Wrong???
Ineos - The chemicals firm, owned by Britain’s third richest man, Sir James Ratcliffe, is racing to build two hand sanitiser factories in the space of 10 days. 1m bottles per month and supply the NHS for free.
BrewDog
British Honey Company
Psychopomp
58 Gin
Verdant Spirits
All distilleries with much smaller capacity are drawing on expertise in making the alcohol required for effective sanitiser.
The Royal Mint - Making medical visors for the NHS after developing a successful prototype to help protect frontline care workers.
Carousel Lights - Making “protective sneeze screens” that would be sold at cost price to GP surgeries, pharmacies, care homes, shops and anyone else who needs to interact safely with the public.
Saga - Reportedly offered two dormant cruise ships as floating hospitals
Brompton Bicycles - Donating 200 of its foldable bikes to NHS workers trying to avoid the risk of infection on public transport.
Europcar – Renting motors to key workers for £5 a day under a special deal.
Leon - Coordinating the delivery of free daily hot meals to NHS critical care staff. Damian Lewis, Helen McCrory and Matt Lucas helping there
Carlsberg - Donated £11m to scientific research on Covid-19 (If only Carlsberg did breweries Oh!)
Diageo -Giving £1m to funds that support hospitality workers.
B&M - Donating up to £1m to food banks.
A combined fleet of nearly 24,000 vehicles from more than 700 logistics depots has been offered to the government free of charge to help distribute critical medical and food supplies, according to the Association of Pallet Networks.
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I don't think I could bring myself to buy Carlsberg.3
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Phew won't have to cancel that new Rolls Royce.13
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Dyson have talked a great fight, but are yet to deliver a single ventilator.
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Britannia Hotels sacked staff and even evicted them from some hotels after the lockdown started. Tescos took a multi-million pound support grant from the government and then paid their shareholder dividend a week later. Virgin Atlantic put their staff on a two month furlough, Richard Branson still owns Mustique. Topshop, owned by the billionaire Philip Green have put their staff on furlough and sacked others.
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What is so bad about a clothes store which is not open putting staff on furlough ?1
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Hang on, just so I get this right, you can go on the "shit list" just by not paying your suppliers?
So that puts Charlton firmly on the list then. Along with thousands of other businesses. Good luck with that.
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Phillip Green, a wolf in wolf clothing.
Richard Branson a wolf in Sheep's clothing.
Apologizes to Wolves.
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Timpson have been good to their staff. Doesn't surprise me, they do a lot right12
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Tesco: took x00 million in business rates relief, even though they’re still in business, and promptly paid a dividend of x00 million.2
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Stop buying cheap, shoddy, knock off, fake, plastic shite from China for a start.18
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Boycott anyone like Virgin, who pay no tax but are owned by a billionaire and asking for government help.15
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It depends on value and reason. Burger King owe one supplier £5m and are using the virus as an excuse. They aren’t prepared to negotiate or consider part payment.Off_it said:Hang on, just so I get this right, you can go on the "shit list" just by not paying your suppliers?
So that puts Charlton firmly on the list then. Along with thousands of other businesses. Good luck with that.Burger King want to open their establishments near hospitals and want the supplier who they owe £5m to provide them with stock, adding to the debt1 -
MrOneLung said:What is so bad about a clothes store which is not open putting staff on furlough ?
This has to be viewed on a case by case basis, in Philip Green's case he has based himself in Monaco where he pays zero tax and holds the record for the biggest ever annual dividend - something like £1.2bn (the payment was covered by the Arcadia Group who took out loans/went heavily into debt to cover it). When he sold BHS he left the group with significant pension liabilities, again after he had taken out very generous dividends (£586m - again tax free) - the pension liabilities were effectively left to us the UK taxpayer to make up. So he's a socialist when it comes to receiving government money and a capitalist when it comes to paying tax. Apart from all that there is nothing wrong with putting staff on furlough.
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In that case, I glad I keep loosing my life time guarantee watch battery receipt and keep having to buy another.McBobbin said:Timpson have been good to their staff. Doesn't surprise me, they do a lot right2 -
You buy a receipt?Todds_right_hook said:
In that case, I glad I keep loosing my life time guarantee watch battery receipt and keep having to buy another.McBobbin said:Timpson have been good to their staff. Doesn't surprise me, they do a lot right5 -
Shit and I gave the deposit money to Matt Southall to sort the order out.cafcfan said:
I suspect that is the Engineering Company that makes airplane engines, etc. And not the car manufacturer owned by BMW. So, that cancellation might still be needed.iaitch said:Phew won't have to cancel that new Rolls Royce.
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You get a card with the watch details on it which acts as a life time replacement guarantee. I called it a receipt as it was quicker to type than a card with the watch details on it which act as a lifetime guaranteeguinnessaddick said:
You buy a receipt?Todds_right_hook said:
In that case, I glad I keep loosing my life time guarantee watch battery receipt and keep having to buy another.McBobbin said:Timpson have been good to their staff. Doesn't surprise me, they do a lot right7 -
This’ll be forgotten by most shortly after things get back to normal. Except by a few.
The whole concept is admirable but not workable. Look at the boycott numbers for Charlton and it’s obvious what will happen.3 -
How does Branson get away with convincing enough of the world that he is a decent bloke and not a capitalist?11
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