Sports Direct

Sports Direct Will NEVER get another penny from me.
Not only trying to stay open, but hiking prices of dumb bells, skipping ropes etc.  Scum.

Quoted from Civvy at last

Sports Direct Will NEVER get another penny from me.
Not only trying to stay open, but hiking prices of dumb bells, skipping ropes etc.  Scum.

And I was about to go out and panic buy dumbells, skipping ropes and dart boards today

Quoted from Ipswin

And I was about to go out and panic buy dumbells, skipping ropes and dart boards today

Are you telling me you’ve never played the
‘Let’s skip whilst throwing dumbbells at the dartboard’ game.

You don’t know what you’re missing mate !!

Ashley is a coont, got rich by being a coont and it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that he tried to profit from adversity. I don't shop there and don't intend to in the future.

A lot of bigger Sports Direct stores sell Bicycles don't they? And smaller stores all sell cycling equipment. Bicycle retailers are allowed to stay open aren't they as they are considered a key service? You can maybe see why Mike Ashley felt that Sports Direct were providing an essential service and were justified in staying open.

For example, all clothes shops have to close. But Asda and other supermarkets still have their clothing department open because they also sell Food and Medicines.

You might not agree, but plenty of important key workers (NHS etc...) cycle to work and many will use SD to buy puncture repair kits. inner tubes and other cycling essentials when they need them.

Whatever anyone’s opinions of Ashley, staying open, although it would appear he has since backpeddled, they’re not even close to excrement business practices.

That said, again, confusion reigns supreme. So you can’t go to John Lewis to buy clothes but I can go to Tesco and buy them, because they’re primarily a food shop.

Fact is, of SD were to stay open, people would use it, for lots of reasons...

Just for clarity though...

Tim Martin is a cunl

Quoted from GollyGTFC

A lot of bigger Sports Direct stores sell Bicycles don't they? And smaller stores all sell cycling equipment. Bicycle retailers are allowed to stay open aren't they as they are considered a key service? You can maybe see why Mike Ashley felt that Sports Direct were providing an essential service and were justified in staying open.

For example, all clothes shops have to close. But Asda and other supermarkets still have their clothing department open because they also sell Food and Medicines.

You might not agree, but plenty of important key workers (NHS etc...) cycle to work and many will use SD to buy puncture repair kits. inner tubes and other cycling essentials when they need them.

Don't agree I'm afraid.  Whilst the trying to stay open bit, p1sses me off, I can sort of understand it.  But hiking prices, surely no one can justify that.!!

Wilko did it with cleaning products, several local stores have done it, it’s greed I’m afraid...

Market forces....swimgear and sun lotion is cheap in the winter, as are arran sweaters in the summer....supply and demand in a capitalist society i am afraid.
Local stores disappeared along time ago because the public ever demanded cheaper prices over personal, local quality service.....those that are left are now by and large multi national / global players or niche local suppliers.
Support your local independant at these times wherever possible to help prevent them going under and help prevent even further monopolising of the market by the big stores.

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Don't agree I'm afraid.  Whilst the trying to stay open bit, p1sses me off, I can sort of understand it. But hiking prices, surely no one can justify that.!!

i see what you did there, even if you didnt  

They don't have to be fully open they can operate a "closed door policy" and triage cycle business at the front of the Store..

I work for an optician and we are mainly open as this means the NHS don't see non essential optics/ophthalmology stuff freeing resource for this crisis. but we only see emergencies which relate to key workers and are not testing eyes or selling glasses.

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Tim Martin:  plays all his staff off with no pay and tells them "Asda are desperate for shelf stickers if you need money".

Then there's Richard Branson.  Tax exile demandeding a tax bail out for his companies while he sits on his island in the Caribbean.

On the other hand Christiano Ronaldo has given all his hotels over to be used as hospitals and paid for the doctors and nurses to staff them.

Gary Neville has done a similar thing with his hotel in Manchester.

Quoted from mimma

Tim Martin:  plays all his staff off with no pay and tells them "Asda are desperate for shelf stackers if you need money".

Then there's Richard Branson.  Tax exile demandeding a tax bail out for his companies while he sits on his island in the Caribbean.

On the other hand Christiano Ronaldo has given all his hotels over to be used as hospitals and paid for the doctors and nurses to staff them.

Gary Neville has done a similar thing with his hotel in Manchester.

Ashley in news again.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52040579

GTFC has 2 "very good" mentions in the Mike Cashley article above. In the link to Brighton giving away 1,000 tickets to NHS staff:

Bournemouth chairman Jeff Mostyn has already pledged to match the offer.

And they have been joined by League Two club Grimsby, who will donate 50 tickets to health care professionals per league game next season.

Both Brighton and Bournemouth are also calling on all football fans to join the nation at 20:00 GMT on Thursday in a show of appreciation for NHS staff around the country.

Barber said: "We are working on a range of things across all areas of the community and I hope this will just be the start.

"We fully appreciate football is the last thing on anyone’s minds at this moment, but we feel this is a small way in which we can show our gratitude for those NHS staff on the frontline who are fighting the battle on behalf of all of us and give them something to look forward to."

He has suggested a club-to-club baton approach and has already nominated fellow south-coast club AFC Bournemouth as the next in line.

Cherries chairman Mostyn added: “We are absolutely delighted to match Brighton’s gesture and commit to one thousand tickets, and we will pass the baton to another club with the aim of reaching a significant target so football as a whole can show its appreciation for our country’s NHS workers.”

Earlier this month, Brighton were one of several Premier League clubs who donated hundreds of meals to local homeless charities after fixtures were postponed.

They are also set to launch a telephone campaign to check in on elderly and vulnerable supporters who are self-isolating at home.

Grimsby said that their plan would equate to more than 1,000 tickets over the course of the season

I also read that Weatherspoons will not be paying their suppliers until after the pubs have been reopened.
i do hope the great british public are making mental notes about the practises of people like Ashley and Martin

Quoted from buckstown

I also read that Weatherspoons will not be paying their suppliers until after the pubs have been reopened.
i do hope the great british public are making mental notes about the practises of people like Ashley and Martin

I wouldn’t get your hopes up...large swathes of the population love Martin and his boozers and even believe his very odd politics.

This should expose him for being no better or worse than the likes of Ashley and Green who have been constantly scrutinised (and rightly so) but I suspect it won’t...

I suspect we’ll sadly still see plenty of his pubs full at 9:30 on a Tuesday when all this has disappeared...

Quoted from buckstown

I also read that Weatherspoons will not be paying their suppliers until after the pubs have been reopened.
i do hope the great british public are making mental notes about the practises of people like Ashley and Martin

I’m afraid most people vote with their pockets.

Martin was on the wireless the other week saying pubs should stay open because people could be trusted to be sensible. Yeah right.

Quoted from mimma

Tim Martin:  plays all his staff off with no pay and tells them "Asda are desperate for shelf stickers if you need money".

Then there's Richard Branson.  Tax exile demandeding a tax bail out for his companies while he sits on his island in the Caribbean.

On the other hand Christiano Ronaldo has given all his hotels over to be used as hospitals and paid for the doctors and nurses to staff them.

Gary Neville has done a similar thing with his hotel in Manchester.

Don’t forget our chosen ventilator manufacturer who took most of his production to Malaysia the other year benefitting from cheap labour. I’ve not noticed any drop in his vacuum cleaner prices since then. girl private. See other comments about Martin and his political views.