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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Have you seen the crap John Lewis sale? "More of what you want" is the slogan; More of what you don't want is the reality.
On the Perspectives panel, they're assessing what people think about new slogans (to replace "Never knowingly undersold", which is the only one that matters. John Lewis is going all socially aware with their slogans.
The hypocrisy in this is sickening. They're only interested in profit - something I can at least respect. But you mustn't do that with a whole load of social guff that has nothing to do with the TV size or laptop reliability etc.
Look at this guff from https://www.johnlewispartnership.co....al-impact.html
It's one thing using some of the income from our pockets to spread some dosh to local charities (later in the quoted article), it's another to pretend that they are selling us stuff for social reasons.
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Sorry, I have to disagree - profit is just part of their corporate objectives. If they were only interested in profit, they wouldn’t still be a partnership, they would have sold out to Venture Capitalists long ago.
You can disagree with how they do "social good", but they have always done it - in 1919 they set up a Staff Council and Charitable Donation Committee, and part of their Constitution has always been
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The Partnership aims to obey the spirit as well as the letter of the law and to contribute to the wellbeing of the communities where it operates.
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