Aldi Facebook Page Kicking Off after Parking Eye LBAs

Browntoa

all quiet on the thread........was dropping

t13d

Hovite wrote: »

Sadly Oldham council don't appear to let you search for historical applications online.

Not so sure about that, Hovite?

Search by map link://geoplanning.oldham.gov.uk/gis/map.aspx?ACTION=PLANNING

RichardD1970

Well the Halal (or not) turkey crown scandal is subsiding and ParkingEye are back on the menu.

Oh and.......

trisontana

Another ex-customer:-

Just like to say a massive thank you to the staff at the Rochdale Entwistle rd branch. For showing no compassion when a 85yr old lady lost her car key, the amazing staff not only didn't care, they wouldn't even allow her to use a phone to ring her grand son. She had to ask a complete stranger to use a mobile phone. So cheers guys for the Christmas spirit n shove your shop where the sun doesn't shine. I and my family will now boycott this store. She was left stood outside in freezing conditions. Well done!!!

And, as somebody has commented, she will probably get a Parking Eye ticket as well.

Dave_TH

trisontana wrote: »

Another ex-customer:-

Just like to say a massive thank you to the staff at the Rochdale Entwistle rd branch. For showing no compassion when a 85yr old lady lost her car key, the amazing staff not only didn't care, they wouldn't even allow her to use a phone to ring her grand son. She had to ask a complete stranger to use a mobile phone. So cheers guys for the Christmas spirit n shove your shop where the sun doesn't shine. I and my family will now boycott this store. She was left stood outside in freezing conditions. Well done!!!

And, as somebody has commented, she will probably get a Parking Eye ticket as well.

this branch has no parking issues at all, so it purely a a PE fund raising exercise.

Stroma

Basically would you believe them?
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegrocer.co.uk%2Fcompanies%2Fdiscounters%2Faldi%2Faldi-apologises-for-mislabelled-turkey-crown%2F353075.article%3Futm_source%3DRSS_Feed%26utm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3Drss&h=zAQGPlBaU&s=1

esmerobbo

Could get even worse, how many people "did" buy it believing it to be Halal?

peter_the_piper

I could understand (possibly) the error in boxing for just the Halal bit. Mistakes happen. But how do you make a mistake with the country of origin if the turkeys are packaged in the country of origin?

4consumerrights

Our local Aldi was packed out yesterday, it took AGES to find anything and struggle thro' the crowds , trolleys and the pallets loaded with stuff. When I got to the checkouts which had very long queues we were directed to an empty one, then waited a good 10 minutes for a cashier to take her post. There were also queues of people trying to register their car numbers in the machine on the way out (more time wasted for the motorist) All this would'nt matter, except if I had come in the car I would have been fined, as the whole operation took 1 hour 39 minutes, 9 minutes over the allotted time thro' no fault of mine.

Another shopper caught up in the Xmas rush - given a nice present from Parking Eye -

RichardD1970

peter_the_piper wrote: »

I could understand (possibly) the error in boxing for just the Halal bit. Mistakes happen. But how do you make a mistake with the country of origin if the turkeys are packaged in the country of origin?

I didn't think the country of origin was in question, they are from Chile and marked as such. Aldi only advertise their fresh meat as being 100% British.

As for the Halal aspect, products should be correctly labelled and people are bound to be suspicious following the recent scares.

But for people who are buying cheap, intensively farmed meat to complain about inhumane slaughter methods is, quite frankly, ridicules.

These birds would have been kept in the worst conditions imaginable and the cruelty of the slaughter would pale into insignificance compared to the cruelty these birds have had to endure whilst alive.

By all means exercise the right to not buy Halal, but they shouldn't think they are alleviating animal suffering if they still buy cheap supermarket meat (which lets face it is what you get at Aldi).

Personally I would rather buy high welfare meat that has had as natural life as possible and slaughtered by Halal methods, than intensively, factory farmed meat, slaughtered by more "humane" methods.