Comments on: Boycott Pick n Pay

By: misha

misha — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:08:43 +0000

Guy,my brother let me first start by thank u for reply to my comment.You calling that security guy a monkey and me thinking that such a statement is racist, the latter was rather out of concern than a pre-judgment. but you calling me an idiot is rather insulting, don’t u think. I’m writing in my personal capacity in a spirit of nation building. i dislike ppl who call others names, regardless of their colour or/and race. professionally, i am a human rights lawyer, that’s why i questioned your statement-figuratively speaking. hope that i wont receive another insult and thanx again for standing up for the under-privilleged consumers.

By: misha

misha — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:11:01 +0000

i do understand what you are complaining about. it really is unfair to be humiliated in front of everyone and be treated like criminal when in fact you are there, spending your money, helping pick ‘n pay to grow further as a brand. shop retailers must stop these unfounded and humiliating suspisions.

however I am not at all impresssed by the fact that as pissed off and concerned as you are, that you would refer to staffer who was just acting within the scope of his employment, as a monkey. that is rather racist dont you think?

Misha, a monkey is a small foolish animal, It is not a racist epithet. Maybe next time I will not use the racist term monkey but the perjorative ~~arsewipe~~ moron

we’ve passed that stage now, let us have the sense of compassion re-installed back in us. I mean, had it been you, acting as an employee, would you rather prefer to be called names? come now my brother that’s not the way………

Misha If the employee is a dickhead AND exceeding his authority, should I just relax and let him. In fact my brother you assuming that I am a racist makes you an idiot. It assumes that I am angry not because of the poor treatment but because of the race of the employee. When I aggressively told the white manager to shove his groceries up his ~~arse~~ in the same incident was that somehow different?

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:19:04 +0000

Maybe he just recognised you from a COPE meetring and it was political? He He

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:45:11 +0000

By actually consuming the goods before you paid for them you exceeded their basic terms of Cash on Delivery so technically you were in the wrong as are thousands of mothers who let their kids have a milkshake on the way to the till. But understand that a lot of less scrupulous individuals than yourself do somehow forget to identify their consumed items to the cashier. Shrinkage in retail is accounting for billions of Rands losses a year so have a little compassion for them?

I actually consumed the milkshake after the argument with the guard, while waiting for the manager to address the issue, so the guard did not even have that on me. If a guard sees someone consuming something and follows them through to the till to ensure payment, I would consider that his duty. Harassing people busy shopping is not the same.

By: Jacoba

Jacoba — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:13:55 +0000

This is a tricky one but I think it’s unfair to blame PnP’s top management for this - surely a little bit of the blame should go to the people that were supposed to train these people?

It may be unfair, but that is where the buck stops. If top management allow this crap, then surely they need to be made aware that this is not what we the customers want