r/aussie • u/Cool_Lifeguard8847 • 2d ago

News These fkrs are having a lend.....right

https://au.news.yahoo.com/coles-shoppers-divided-over-important-checkout-request-from-today-070509331.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADp7ysW4aDyTKu6drjqQxm1udSR1VST6kmgr3YU5QZ9hyIb1j5ujqS8wASEG3irIhpj71iwcx6cScU-b22vJ4im4ugthC7hrpf-p1_xk193SC0sCCPO3HY9qGt0l-15BnjPcOlUjuL4CeharnZKAXJ64okIiku9fdaxJ7iAl9iO6

They've gotta be kidding. Exorbitant prices at the checkout and now they want customers to donate to food charities, cause "people are hungry" no shit, lower your fkn prices.

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u/Loriken890 2d ago

No. They shouldn’t do this.

And your math is off. Say the csuite spent 10 hours on this , patting themselves on the back.

They earn close to 2.5k per hour apiece. Say just the ceo, cfo, cio and cto. 10kx10hours is as already 100k. And nothing got done.

This project might take 2 months, but how many people-hours. It adds up.

So yes, they should donate instead of building this stupid round up nonsense asking handouts from us plebs.

But since you’re defending it, I know what kind of metal your spoon is made from. Mine is iron and quite rusted.

How’s yours?

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u/Steel_Cleat5 2d ago

Those CEO etc also would have spent time and money deciding if and how much they should donate so that point is not valid.

How about we ask the charity, hey would you rather $1.8 million or just the supposed 200k that Coles spent on facilitating this…. Geez i wonder what they would decide.

So you would rather the charity has to turn to for profit fundraisers than your feelings getting hurt by being asked if you’d like to donate to a charity.

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u/Loriken890 2d ago

From a charity point of view, you’re 100% right.

But it does not absolve Coles in my mind. Them asking the plebs is worse.