And sticking with the Sports Direct theme...... Newcastle United.
Season Ticket Direct Debits have just gone out whilst other clubs have been offering refunds.
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I hope once this Pandemic is over people will give companies that behave badly a wide berth. Like Wetherspoons (I'll add Sports Direct to the list also)
https://amp.theguardian.com/business...mpression=true
And sticking with the Sports Direct theme...... Newcastle United.
Season Ticket Direct Debits have just gone out whilst other clubs have been offering refunds.
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No amount of cheap beer could get me into a Wetherspoons ever again. I hope the owner loses his shirt and all his staff club together and form a workers cooperative from the ruins of his evil empire :-)
As for Sports Direct. They don't even have the minor advantage of selling anything remotely helpful to the world. To give Wetherspoon’s their due, at least beer is an inherently good thing.
Once Sports direct has ceased to exist then hopefully its staff staff could also form a workers cooperative to provide thr prisons service with all the shit tracksuits that they can buy...
Sports Direct and Witherspoon's were on ze list before this let alone now.
However I won't be using the services of Spicer Hart or a eating at a Gordon Ramsey restaurant based on how they have also treated their staff.
I used to think that Wetherspoons were an OK company and treated suppliers/staff fairly. I did have concerns when Tim Martin became a "voice " for Brexit (everyone is entitled to their view on this )but he became obnoxious and it appears that this has continued in this current situation, so yes , like you Ryan , no support from me when this is all over. Cheers, John B4
I don’t really go in Wetherspoons anyway but I certainly won’t Go in now. Sports Direct, I’ve never used as I can’t abide his business ethics.
Given that I have probably only been in a Wetherspoons about three times in my entire life, I'd like to say I am withdrawing my trade (in fact I would have said this several years ago as a result of Martin's appalling Brexit propaganda), but I can say this: I'll make sure I never set foot in one, ever from now on.
Same goes for Sports Direct - hideous place.
So clever my foot fell off.
Thanks to the tory party in the guise of Teresa May slashing the numbers of the police force then when and if law and order break down they are 2 of the first places to get looted.
I've been boycotting Wetherspoons for years so this means I'll have to cross over the road when I pass one. Can you do a double boycott?
It's the single payment direct debit option, full payment for next season which has been taken today, absolutely scandalous. Could Ashley not have given supporters a payment holiday until the currect crisis is over and the Premiership even know when next season will start.
Ghastly places anyway.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Just out of curiosity but when this is over will folks vote with their wallets and boycott Chinese made stuff?
The government could and should have been very clear and specific earlier. But... Yes some companies could have done much more.
It's just a matter of time...
It’s a valid question, going forward when this one breaks as it inevitably will are other options available dunno but I will have a look and then there’s lots of other Stuff, quite a bit of which is non essential truth be told or For which alternative suppliers do exist...what about you...accept poor food security, cultural quirks, animal cruelty and eventually health pandemics as the inevitable and acceptable cost of cheap stuff or use the only avenue available and vote with your wallet...I have not reached a conclusion just interested in what others think, plus there’s all the moral, humanitarian issues around supporting the regime with ones cash...
Everyone would be a lot better off - financially and mentally - if they bought less Stuff. You'd be bucking the trend, mind you.
To the OP - Brexit killed Weatherspoons for me, Sports Direct I will use if they have what I want, as I like to try running shoes on before I buy them.
Sports Direct - allegations of profiteering made by its own staff :-
https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-24/...its-own-staff/
Meanwhile, Tesco have announced that vulnerable staff, pregnant and those over 70 will get 12 weeks off on full pay.
Karma.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
I will be going back to my local one (and any of the many in London) when it reopens.
I haven't been to one where the premises and beer aren't as well kept as most other pubs, plus they usually have a better selection of beer which, with the CAMRA discount, is even better value than it would otherwise be
Amazing. Quite clearly the guy is scum of the earth but you, and many others, will continue to put your money in his pocket because it suits you do so. You > *. Wouldn't be seen dead in one.
Stopped going to a Wetherspoons as soon as I was old enough to be served .
Horrendous places.
Not really a fan of Wetherspoons, but I must say that Tim Martin very handsomely earned my respect as one of the rational good guys during the Brexit / democracy crisis, and it would take a great deal to erode that. I gather he's had a change of heart now anyway. I'll make a point of giving him a bit of custom once that's possible again.
He’s had a change of mind over his Brexit stance? Really?
I can't see any evidence of that.
And given this from Wikipedia:
Coronavirus
Martin criticised the shutdown of businesses during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, saying that it was "over the top" and that pubs should continue to operate but with social distancing measures in place.[25][26] After criticism regarding the shutdown of all pubs due the spread of Covid-19, and pushing sales until the very last minute. The following Monday Tim Martin addressed a video message to over 40.000 employees telling them the company will be unable to pay the staff as they have no cash through the tills, despite £1.8 billion turnover, and to go to work for Tesco. [27]
To widespread criticism and outrage, he told workers they will not be paid until the Government delivers on its promise to cover 80% of wages. "Wetherspoons have left over 40,000 people without their next pay date. With no means of paying for rent, bills or food, and no warning," employees said in a letter to the media.
I made up my mind a long time ago about Martin, and it would take an awful lot to shift my opinion from him being a total ****.
So clever my foot fell off.
News to me but if he has changed his mind over Brexit it will only be because there's something in it for him.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
I think Mono means he has changed his mind about paying his staff etc, not his Brexit stance.
Cheers..
Jase
Shocking, I hope they struggle to employ staff after all of this. Shows how much they value there staff
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It seems that the banks are taking advantage of desperate people, if the government underwrites a loan why should anyone have to give a personnel guarantee, I heard a report on the radio this morning that they are hiking loan rates to 12% as well.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52043896
My workmates daughter used to work as an assistant manager at weatherspoons and she was run ragged for 10 hours a day for peanuts she went to work for the co op instead and never looked back unfortunately I can see this being a good thing for weatherspoons as I can see a lot of independent pubs going under after this
Likewise, I haven't been to a wetherspoons since Tim Martin's awful Brexit campaign and when they started putting out anti-EU propaganda on pub tables. Arguably by not being their customer I'm also exercising my democratic rights through action.
A couple of my mates didn't mind it so much but they too have said they'll stop going because of TM's treatment of his staff. It's a shame really since aside from their CEO I like them as a business.
Never been in one.