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My Wife who is on the mgmt team at a Countdown in Auckland just sighed , she started working for them when they were Foodtown , she is also annoyed because they have $400million to re brand but are cutting back on staff levels in the stores at present to save $$

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It's bullshit alright. It must be hard for her being in management when the ones above make these damn calls & you have to follow through with them even tho you had no say in those decisions. I can just imagine the staff morale for her right about now. It must be right 'up there' ...not!

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Morale is bad as the decisions and announcements keep being pushed back, so far on the Meat staff dep't knows their fate , no word to the Produce, Bakery or other teams.

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Countdown are the mafia of food.

Woolworths are merely pulling the wool over the eyes of customers.

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Don't forget our friends at Foodstuffs, the otherside of the same dirty coin.

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Can they cut back staff anymore. There is never enough staff in our local Countdown

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During the first lockdown, I had a buy nothing month. It was autumn, and harvest time in my vegie garden, which was producing well that year, and I always have plenty of dry goods and cans as I live remotely and anything can happen with the weather and road. At the end of 5 weeks I had saved $1000 and felt healthier and more alive than I ever had. That, plus the anger and resentment I felt at the supermarkets' blatant greedy price hikes when people had no choice encouraged me to continue to buy as little as possible from any of them. They symbolise corparate capitalism in its worst form. Most of the food they sell is highly processed, sugar laden and unhealthy, apart from the fresh food.

I urge all who are able to, to support your local Farmer's Market, and grow your own vegies, or support your local Community Garden, or if you don't have one in your area, help to start up one, and most of all please consider eating meat, fish, eggs and dairy less often, or even never again, because mass production of these foods not only causes suffering but is killing our planet.

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Wonderful suggestions.

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Aotearoa! E tautoko ana au pau te kaha!

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Thanks :)

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"I imagine a very swish consultancy made a packet coming up with that One" AND in reality that is what name changes are all about. PR wallahs or advertising agency peeps are clever. Salesmen - they target a new CEO and their Board and suggest a rebrand. It's a vanity project and it works.

For fun compare the brand names of political parties in NZ from a PR point of view. Who's got the best? Just don't mention the N word

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I like what you did there Nick ♡

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I am going to bat for them lol. Being 81 I love their online service. It is great. I get my groceries to the door fortnightly. I choose according to a 2 x 14 day menu and find I know what I am willing to spend and will choose accordingly. Our local New World has a hopeless portal. Packnsave does not deliver or do click and collect. So even if I could save a little more, and shop farmer's markets it is our physical stage and the help we get that guides my shop. I do better than friends who often buy items "because they saw them in the shop" or "the market. Yes Aotearoa not New Holland lol xx

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I used to work in the last Woolworth in NZ at the Bayfair Mall at Mt Maunganui not that many years ago about 5 or 6 I think. Long and complicated Mall owners story why we still had the last Woolies in Aotearoa.

Anyway I thought companies only changed their name so they could write off their profits . But I might just be a tad cynical:)

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