End of the line for Netto (again)

[mrsmontague]

In Reply to the less than nice posts.

I am healthy, no age related illness, pay all my bills, owe nothing, NEVER HAD TO USE A FOOD BANK !

I don't smoke, only drink Pepsi Max, no sugar, and I am not overweight.

I am clean, smart, have a newish car, 11 plate, and I still wont be upset about Netto closing !

I am a respectable, intelligent professional, astute, and in the know.

People need to find some empathy, for those less fortunate, than themselves.

Its inconvenient when somewhere we shop at closes, but no ones died !!!!!!!!

[999tigger]

The only people relying on food banks are wastrels who like to continually suck on the teat of nanny state.

 

Have you been in your average Asda or Tesco? Have you seen stepped foot into a discount store?

 

Food has never been so cheap and in such plentiful supply. Dried goods, ready meals, canned and frozen items sold in big boxes and supersized packets for mere pennies.

 

Lets go back to the days when your options were the corner shop or the Coop. See how expensive things really were then. I would have blown some peoples minds back then if you told them that in a couple of decades people would be wandering round vast warehouses with trolleys bulging with goods for less than one day's pay.

 

It never stops making me laugh when the tabloid television beats on about poverty in britain, people hardly able to put food on the table and queues round the block for food banks and then switch to a report about our obesity and diabeties epedemic.

 

Which one is it. Those poor obease people who cant afford to put food on the table. Yeah right.

 

If you go and spend some time volunteering at a foodbank, then you can see who comes and the reasons.

 

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Anyway back to the point. Netto closing down its a shame as its an alternative to Aldi etc. I will be sad to see it go. there were two in Sheffield? Perfectly good shop and products.

[Malline]

Are you sad to see Netto go?

 

We have started a petition to try to persuade Sainsbury's to reconsider their decision. With at least 400 jobs across 16 branches, it has got to be worth a try!

 

Please sign our petition:

 

https://www.change.org/p/sainsbury-s-sainsbury-s-reconsider-your-decision-to-close-netto-s-uk-stores

[LeeJH35]

never been keen on the netto stores but hope the staff get work else where

[Henrietta]

Where will I get my frozen chopped spinach from now

[Bob Arctor]

Where will I get my frozen chopped spinach from now

 

Morrisons, although the bags are a bit big if you only have a little freezer.

[Longy67]

Are you sad to see Netto go?

 

We have started a petition to try to persuade Sainsbury's to reconsider their decision. With at least 400 jobs across 16 branches, it has got to be worth a try!

 

Please sign our petition:

 

https://www.change.org/p/sainsbury-s-sainsbury-s-reconsider-your-decision-to-close-netto-s-uk-stores

 

But what is the point, if the shop isn't making enough money to pay rent, pay staff and make a profit, why keep it open???

[Squiggs]

But what is the point, if the shop isn't making enough money to pay rent, pay staff and make a profit, why keep it open???

 

That's not the reason. It doesn't seem to be making a loss; rather the big nobs have decided they want a bigger toy now so don't want this one any more. They want Argos.

[Henrietta]

Morrisons, although the bags are a bit big if you only have a little freezer.

 

Not chopped sadly only whole leaf

[ECCOnoob]

That's not the reason. It doesn't seem to be making a loss; rather the big nobs have decided they want a bigger toy now so don't want this one any more. They want Argos.

 

Why put all the blame on Sainsburys. They only own 50% of this joint venture, it was only a trial and have quite rightly chosen to focus on the parts of their business that are making a profit and have a long term future.

 

If Dansk Supermarked Group wanted to keep the name going on there was nothing to stop them finding another partner or run the stores 100% themselves.

 

Fact is the ship sailed. Aldi and Lidl were far more established and are making far greater profits than a reformed Netto ever would.

 

When the group was first flogged to Asda it clearly failed. An attempt to bring it back has failed to.

 

Its devistating to the staff no doubt and if Sainsburys have any shred of decency they will do all they can to make sure those staff are deployed elsewhere in the company where possible.

 

However, the bottom line is, it business. Its there to make money. When it doesn't you get rid.

 

Us consumers are hardly in a place to be on the moral high ground. The store was rarely busy, in fact in my experience was nearly always dead. One sniff that its closing down and I see reports and comments about the store being rammed and trolleys heaving with discounted and sale stock.

 

Absolutely Typical. Just like Woolworths, Comet and BHS. Nobody shopped there when it was open. Nobody cared. But as soon as a closure is announced we flock to get our fill of the closing sale stock and then show our faux upset and criticism about the management for closing it.

Edited July 9, 2016 by ECCOnoob