The Secrets of Sports direct

[Drago]

A nice bit of Cate Blanchett, although in a break from the norm she keeps her clothes on in this one. Interestingly, not Sports Direct clothes either.

 

[Tin Pot]

So the secret is that they pay staff badly - shocked, I'm shocked.

Can I go and buy my cheap trainers now?

 

[AndyRM]

So the secret is that they pay staff badly - shocked, I'm shocked.

Can I go and buy my cheap trainers now?

You could have replaced Sports Direct with Aldi, Primani, Pound Land, B&M Homestores (I could go on) and made exactly the same programme.

A disappointing effort.

 

[Tin Pot]

Cool.
They have my 2013 trainers at half price.

 

[Drago]

I know a guy who's a deputy manager at an Aldi. They pay him pretty well for a job requiring no technical skills or formal training, although they make him blooming work for It.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I bought some Karrimor walking shoes from there, Sandals are more waterproof! Some stuff's ok like the obscure footy shirts,but some of those well known names are maid from crap material. Those Slazenger polos are poor and all that Donnay stuff is inferior quality! One thing i learnt from last night's prog...i didn't know that Bjorn Borg's tennis racket was made by Donnay when they made and sold better stuff!

 

[Rooster1]

What a pile of old crap. The discounts are bullcrap and the staff have no employment rights at all. I'm disgusted. I won't be going to the store again.

 

[iggibizzle]

Watched it. Found nothing at all surprising and will still shop there if I want something useful for very little cash.

 

[Banjo]

Lots of pub workers are on zero hours contracts I cant see us all boycotting pubs as well.

 

[AndyRM]

Lots of pub workers are on zero hours contracts I cant see us all boycotting pubs as well.

True, but I've never worked in a pub where I had a pint quota which I think is the real issue.

 

[nickyboy]

The reality is that the vast majority of the British public couldn't care less about the contracts that SD employees are on. All they want are cheap trainers.

If everyone decided today to stop using SD until they got rid of zero hours contracts these contracts would be replaced tomorrow. The public has the power to change things like this, they/we just don't care enough to do anything about it

 

[Rooster1]

Lots of pub workers are on zero hours contracts I cant see us all boycotting pubs as well.

I might find it challenging to stop pub visits

 

[glenn forger]

Lots of pub workers are on zero hours contracts I cant see us all boycotting pubs as well.

Beer isn't made in Bangladeshi sweatshops.

 

[nickyboy]

Beer isn't made in Bangladeshi sweatshops.

So is your issue with SD their zero hours contracts, their sourcing policy or both? You're replying to a zero hours comment with something about sourcing policy

 

[glenn forger]

That's right.