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GabriellaG54 Tue 24-Mar-20 23:16:01

Costa is a far bigger company than J.D.Wetherspoon. It's owned by the Coca Cola brand.

Callistemon Tue 24-Mar-20 23:02:24

Sports Direct has put up the online prices of the type of equipment people may use at home, some almost double.

EllanVannin Tue 24-Mar-20 22:58:33

That insidious Wetherspoon director calmly said of his staff "they'll all have to work at Tesco's won't they ".

rosecarmel Tue 24-Mar-20 22:44:33

It's a "shame" that huge chunk of the population in the United States can't afford either! So why would we care about bailing them out?

rosecarmel Tue 24-Mar-20 22:42:03

I don't understand why there's so much emphasis on bailing out cruise ship companies-

It reminds so much of the movie JAWS where the mayor was hellbent on keeping the beach open because of tourist revenues-

And airlines have some downright crappy practices and policies-

sodapop Tue 24-Mar-20 22:13:28

I see shareholders and Stelios received large amounts of money this month. They have also asked for cash from the Government - something wrong with this system.

mokryna Tue 24-Mar-20 21:47:40

And the airlines hiking up the airfares so high that people are held over a barrel if they want to get home. The price of petrol has dropped, when it goes up of the price rises but all these people seem to be paying double.

vampirequeen Tue 24-Mar-20 20:34:17

Weatherspoons have laid off their staff and will only pay them up to 22nd March. Then they have to wait until the company gets it's money from the government before they'll be paid anything else. One worker said that they were only going to get basic pay for March even if they had achieved targets and would normally have got a bonus.

On the other hand Costa are paying staff in full for at least the next 8 weeks. If one big company can do it then they all can.

mokryna Tue 24-Mar-20 20:03:49

Wouldn’t the airlines and businesses love the free publicity of how they took advantage of people in difficult situations?Example of the hotel which sent the wrong information to an employee last week and didn’t realize it, until it was on a radio broadcast.