It doesn’t matter if it’s actually very safe to do, it’s the fact that many women have been and are attacked that way so women will always have that fear in the back of their mind. Trying to deny this is going against basic human psychology and behaviour.

You only need to look at the current “man or bear” discussion to see how wrong you are.

Women don’t generally like riding bikes home after dark through dimly lit streets and parks etc. Pretty universal thing.

So many reasons. Not everyone lives close enough to the city. Not everyone wants to ride a bike. Not everyone has showers available at their work. Not everyone would feel safe riding a bike, especially women. Then there’s the big one - the weather.

Did you see their now ex ceo in there?

at no extra wholesale cost to retailers.

And at no extra cost to customers, right? Right?

CEO doesn’t make decisions about what product lines to discontinue. He didn’t create the Australia day thing.

The CEO is ultimately responsible for every decision they make. He absolutely had a say in it and he clearly thought it was a good idea, and he thought his messaging was good.

Of course you fire the CEO before the enquiry, so you can divert blame during the enquiry. “Oh yeah maybe we did some bad stuff but it’s all fixed now”.

Nope, you wait until after the enquiry so you can blame them at the end and say “we’ll take action by firing the ceo”. What if the enquiry comes up with nothing bad and you’ve already fired your CEO? lol

Woolworths is not “finding out”.

Again - CEO gone. Enormous public backlash. This whole thing has even further pushed for calls for inquiries and change.

Just as it was a month ago, any assertion that Woolworth has made a mistake in discontinuing Australia day merch is just absurd.

Bet the CEO doesn’t think that. Bet the people that pushed him to retirement don’t think that. They are a supermarket, not a politician. Keep your shitty politics out of it and sell stuff that people want to buy. Note they never said it didn’t sell, they just said there had been a “gradual decline in sales”. The best selling product on earth can have a gradual decline in sales but still sell well.

Frankly, I’m genuinely surprised you’re still fretting about it.

Same with you.

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.

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.

It’s (blaming elon musk) the entire reason it was posted to Lemmy.

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 you ignore 90% of my post that proves my point to focus on the 10% that you think proves yours? Lol

Let me guess - it was a coincidence that bud light got dethroned after 20 years at the same time they pulled their stunt?

Bud Light tanked. It was the number 1 beer in its category up until that decision - a title it had held for 20 years. It isn’t now.

Their vice president responsible for it was removed.

They lost marketshare across the board.

Their american sales have not recovered.

Bill Gates threw $100 million at their stock in an effort to get it to go back up. Remember - Bud Light is not their whole company. Bud Light has likely been irrevocably harmed. Other beer brands have gained market share, Bud Light lost the number 1 spot it had held for 20 years. Share price isn’t everything when it’s a worldwide brand.

Those people who are triggered by the word “inclusiveness”

No one is “triggered” 🙄. It’s just a term that’s used by the DEI/ESG squad that basically gives them a free defense squad when they use it to do a stupid thing.

Those of us who are rational will recognise it for what it is; Spin to justify a decision based on maximising profit.

You’re not disagreeing with me. The problem is that what the DEI/ESG squad think will maximise profit - pandering to the minorities - usually backfires massively. Those of us who are rational know that pandering to the minority isn’t smart because you put off the majority.

but buying bullshit with a flag on it to use for a single day to celebrate how good we are is my definition of wasteful and narcissistic

You don’t have to only use the stuff for a single day you know?