Media has pun with Woolies

NEWSWATCH: Oh joy, you could bet your leef the media would have a pun time with the Woolies/Christian magazines saga so Bizcommunity decided to gather a few for you (not forgetting a couple of our own, naturally) while keeping you up-to-date with the latest developments. We have also added some serious advice and analysis for the benefit of those who would not like to endure what has just happened to Woolies.

22 Oct 2010

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Times Live: Woolworths loses faith... Is it the end of the world as one irate customer apparently wrote? No, not really, surely! In any event, if would seem that in the God vs Woolworths duel, the score right now is 1-0.
Kam City.com: S. AFRICA: Woolworths Sparks Righteous Anger After Withdrawing Christian Magazines... In its statement, the chain said 'Following feedback from customers, Woolworths has decided to relist them until a review of all categories of magazines has been done. We may then find that the two faith magazines that sell better than the others might be retained'. Well, some people may think that simply calling what happened 'feedback' is rather understating things... sort of like calling one of history's more memorable wars 'a minor tiff between erstwhile friends'.
Business Day: Woolies thrown to the lions And den they did an about-turn, but we mustn't be catty, must we?
Times Live: Woolworths repents... Strange, thesauruses gives the synonyms for "repent" as "apologise, atone, be ashamed, be contrite, be sorry, bewail, deplore, feel remorse, have qualms, lament, reform, regret, relent, reproach oneself, rue, see error of ways, show penitence, sorrow", which all seem to fit the bill, but what they don't have is "'surrender".
Times Live: What would Jesus buy?... Some people might guess at 'five fish and five loaves - oh, and this magazine, please'.
Memeburn.com: Woolies: Now the artists get in on the act... A picture paints a thousand words, or so they say.
Bizcommunity.com: Woolies wilts in faith-off... and No joy for Christians at Woolies... Just one question... Should one of the publishers of one of these magazines decide to close the magazine for perfectly good business reasons, would they also face a boycott of all their other magazines in their stable? We're only asking.

And now for something completely different...

MikeStopforth.com: The customer is NOT always right... Nor, necessarily, is a bunch of customers with an axe to grind: Might is not necessarily right, but man, does it get management's attention!
Memeburn.com: Woolworths: The shifting nature of brands... Walter Pike provides some pithy, pertinent points, proffered proudly, in the hope that some of those to whom his advice is offered will, next time, follow it before opening their mouths and landing themselves in that paradoxical situation of being on thin ice and in hot water at one and the same time.