Who owns Bodycare and Poundworld? - Page 3

cashman · 07-11-2011, 11:29

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Originally Posted by wallop79

Staff in both poundland & poundworld are wearing poppies, staff in bodycare are not, when I asked if they have been banned from wearing them lady said no, they just haven't got one, told them off & to go & buy one!

Seems odd that wallop re- bodycare

the info came from a family member,who was told by a member of the staff of bodycare? unless they have been put in unenviable position by the owners.

i have just been talking to the poppy seller stood across from the said shop, he was telling me that its the first time fer 3 yrs they have been allowed in the arndale, seems the new owners don't object to em selling yon, in fact he said the owners contacted em n invited em to come.

JCB · 07-11-2011, 18:43

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Originally Posted by wallop79

Staff in both poundland & poundworld are wearing poppies!

So they can wear them ?

wallop79 · 07-11-2011, 19:27

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Originally Posted by JCB

So they can wear them ?

Yep, seems like someone's been playing Chinese whispers saying not allowed to wear them.

cashman · 08-11-2011, 12:03

Summat odd gone on,but good end result, just passed Bodycare n staff now wearing poppys.

garinda · 08-11-2011, 15:43

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Originally Posted by cashman

Summat odd gone on,but good end result, just passed Bodycare n staff now wearing poppys.

I also saw the staff were wearing them today, as management have apparently caved in, thanks to the public outrage.

People power!

Though any employer who was half-way decent, wouldn't have forbidden their employees from wearing poppies in the first place.

jaysay · 08-11-2011, 19:05

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Originally Posted by garinda

I also saw the staff were wearing them today, as management have apparently caved in, thanks to the public outrage.

People power!

Though any employer who was half-way decent, wouldn't have forbidden their employees from wearing poppies in the first place.

I just wonder what any employer in their right mind would make such a stupid rule in the first place, first rule in business don't upset the paying public, they usually show their dissent with their feet, walking past the door

wallop79 · 08-11-2011, 20:24

Just looking at something on Facebook & it has named certain shops that have banned staff from wearing poppies, one of which it named as The Bodyshop, think as I earlier suggested about Chinese whispers someone has picked Bodycare instead of The Bodyshop.

cashman · 08-11-2011, 20:45

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Originally Posted by wallop79

Just looking at something on Facebook & it has named certain shops that have banned staff from wearing poppies, one of which it named as The Bodyshop, think as I earlier suggested about Chinese whispers someone has picked Bodycare instead of The Bodyshop.

Bodycare ban staff poppies | The Sun |News as it was company policy 2 years ago,i doubt very much if was chinese whispers.

that article was also in the Mail.Independant, Telegraph, n on BBC News.

wallop79 · 08-11-2011, 21:02

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Originally Posted by cashman

Bodycare ban staff poppies | The Sun |News as it was company policy 2 years ago,i doubt very much if was chinese whispers.

that article was also in the Mail.Independant, Telegraph, n on BBC News.

This newspaper article is from 2 years ago, I asked the lady member of staff in Bodycare yesterday if they had been banned & she said NO, she even said that was 2 years ago, but they backed down after the public outcry, she just said don't know why none of us are not wearing them its not good is it, jokingly told her & the other staff off & to go buy one, maybe that's why they were wearing them today because I or maybe someone else pricked their conscience.

cashman · 08-11-2011, 22:11

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Originally Posted by wallop79

This newspaper article is from 2 years ago, I asked the lady member of staff in Bodycare yesterday if they had been banned & she said NO, she even said that was 2 years ago, but they backed down after the public outcry, she just said don't know why none of us are not wearing them its not good is it, jokingly told her & the other staff off & to go buy one, maybe that's why they were wearing them today because I or maybe someone else pricked their conscience.

What i find odd is the fact that a member of staff told a family member as i posted, yet another member has told yeh the opposite, yet you say others are chinese whispers? how does that work?

wallop79 · 08-11-2011, 22:47

Cashy the only reason I went into Bodycare yesterday was to see if what you had put on here was true & if so to get off the staff who to complain to, I can only repeat what she told me that they haven't been banned from wearing poppies. I made a point of walking past Poundland & could clearly see staff wearing poppies so I didn't need to go in there, then I went into Poundworld & again could clearly see staff wearing poppies. Anyway all that matters are people are wearing them, all we need now are the England football team to do the same & shove two fingers up to Sepp.

cashman · 08-11-2011, 22:56

aint bitching about yeh checking,in fact think thats good, but we both are only repeating what members of staff said, thats the bit i don't get, the fact that opposite to what you were told, the other is chinese whispers?

the England team by the way are only wearing poppies on warm up jerseys, wi black-armbands during the game, seems the corrupt pig blatter has won again.

wallop79 · 08-11-2011, 23:05

I know u wernt bitching Cashy, like ya say its odd, but they're wearing em now, sorted!