Alpine - I can't see how the media can criticise the thousands of protesters who are coming to London on Saturday (hopefully). We will be the the only ones who will be spending any money and propping up their 'doomed' economy. 😃
Oh but they will! Look at what they have already done! I personally think that our money means nothing to them! I am quite sure they have their back up reserves. Consumer power is what they want us all to believe we still have. I used to work in retail so I have an understanding of this. The ethos of: 'the customer is always right' is
(I believe) disappearing just as quickly as democracy is slipping through our fingers like sand. As far as I can see, consumer rights still stand but they are standing against the new draconian measures. So there is a problem.
Retail outlets become almost unrecognisable as retail outlets.
Many of these places are now beginning to lose their identity as the places they were. Even though the appearance of the retail outlet may not have changed much, the medical imagery has been slowly creeping its way in. This is so visible in things like the way they insist on taking people's temperatures, wearing surgical masks, the expectations to use hand sanitiser, signage with messages (repeated over loud tannoys in shopping centres) the need to do everything they say to prevent the spread of a (so called) 'deadly disease'. It seems that we are no longer being treated as 'consumers' but as potential 'patients'.
Alpine - I went to the public library for the first time in months to do some photocopying. It was unrecognisable. There was a woman in the front entrance taking your contact details dressed up like a surgeon. There were 2 other 'surgeons' behind a big bank of perspex screens. The whole place was empty. What bothered me most though, except for the books, everything else was taped up or barricaded, like the little seats which kiddies usually sit on to do their reading. It was the most unwelcoming place I have been to in a long time and so surreal.
Alpine - I can't see how the media can criticise the thousands of protesters who are coming to London on Saturday (hopefully). We will be the the only ones who will be spending any money and propping up their 'doomed' economy. 😃
Oh but they will! Look at what they have already done! I personally think that our money means nothing to them! I am quite sure they have their back up reserves. Consumer power is what they want us all to believe we still have. I used to work in retail so I have an understanding of this. The ethos of: 'the customer is always right' is
(I believe) disappearing just as quickly as democracy is slipping through our fingers like sand. As far as I can see, consumer rights still stand but they are standing against the new draconian measures. So there is a problem.
Retail outlets become almost unrecognisable as retail outlets.
Many of these places are now beginning to lose their identity as the places they were. Even though the appearance of the retail outlet may not have changed much, the medical imagery has been slowly creeping its way in. This is so visible in things like the way they insist on taking people's temperatures, wearing surgical masks, the expectations to use hand sanitiser, signage with messages (repeated over loud tannoys in shopping centres) the need to do everything they say to prevent the spread of a (so called) 'deadly disease'. It seems that we are no longer being treated as 'consumers' but as potential 'patients'.
Alpine - I went to the public library for the first time in months to do some photocopying. It was unrecognisable. There was a woman in the front entrance taking your contact details dressed up like a surgeon. There were 2 other 'surgeons' behind a big bank of perspex screens. The whole place was empty. What bothered me most though, except for the books, everything else was taped up or barricaded, like the little seats which kiddies usually sit on to do their reading. It was the most unwelcoming place I have been to in a long time and so surreal.
That sounds awful. Its another example of them trying to change the identity of places people normally go to.