{"id":61591,"date":"2014-10-11T09:20:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T07:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=61591"},"modified":"2014-10-11T17:17:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T15:17:57","slug":"grass-consumer-action-sweet-service-and-pick-n-pay-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/grass-consumer-action-sweet-service-and-pick-n-pay-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Grass Consumer Action Sweet Service and Pick ‘n Pay Sour Service Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Grass<\/a>The Sweet Service Award<\/strong> goes to the Grass Consumer Action group, which is keeping retailers generally, and Woolworths specifically, on their toes in respect of the humane treatment of their suppliers’ animals, and the ethical and honest labeling of products. \u00a0Ayrshire milk and cream has been misleadingly labeled, and falsely described as organic, just because (only half of) \u00a0the cows eat grass; products containing GMO ingredients should be better identified and those ingredients removed; \u00a0the Sustainability series ‘Hayden Quinn: South Africa<\/em>‘<\/strong><\/span><\/a> \u00a0has been a greenwash of Woolworths’ misleading consumer communication; and more. \u00a0Every time Grass challenges Woolworths on an ethical issue, the retail adjusts its labels!<\/p>\n

\"Pick<\/a>The Sour Service Award<\/strong> goes to Pick ‘n Pay in the V&A Waterfront, and its manager Faizel, the only manager on duty on a recent Sunday evening. \u00a0I had popped in to buy some bread and bananas, and saw the fruit weighing lady and a colleague chatting away, one even sitting down on the boxes of paw paws. \u00a0I asked her what the problem was, and was told that she was ill. \u00a0I asked why she didn’t go home if ill, but she said she was not allowed to. \u00a0From the time I saw a Pick ‘n Pay staff member and requested her assistance to find the store manager, it took 15 minutes for Faizel to arrive at the till, where I was waiting for him, having already paid. \u00a0He was rude in telling me that it is the staff member’s duty to tell him when they are ill, not that of customers! \u00a0Cheekily he asked me if that was the reason why I had called for him!<\/p>\n

The\u00a0WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards<\/strong>\u00a0are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog.\u00a0 Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at \u00a0whalecot@iafrica.com<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog. \u00a0FOR\u00a0THE DURATION OF MASTERCHEF SA SEASON 3 WE ARE MOVING THE SWEET & SOUR SERVICE AWARDS TO SATURDAYS.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio:\u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Twitter:@WhaleCottage \u00a0Facebook: \u00a0<\/strong>click here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to the Grass Consumer Action group, which is keeping retailers generally, and Woolworths specifically, on their toes in respect of the humane treatment of their suppliers’ animals, and the ethical and honest labeling of products. \u00a0Ayrshire milk and cream has been misleadingly labeled, and falsely described as organic, just because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,587,266,24372,26736,248,892,21],"tags":[28017,32378,537,6427,28207,27573,28205,26473,10662,28206,3817,957,32393,32373,1771,171],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t