To never shop at Iceland again

[Lentillover1900]

Brilliant for picking up weird ice cream treats for the children in summer that no where else stocks and my children love the hot dog stuffed pizza crusts for Friday pizza night but I have just read this, and my poor children will be forever deprived of the most revolting looking pizza on the planet ....

To summarise. Iceland increased sales by 20% to £2.9 billion (not a typo) over lockdown. However they are the only big supermarket chain not returning the £40 million tax relief they received. So essentially we have given £40 million at a time when they are taking in money like never before.

Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Morrisons, Asda, Aldi, Lidl - are ALL returning

[quote malaboi]@Lentillover1900 it's a legal requirement to pay back if you have underpaid staff [/quote]
Yes
But they reported themselves for the error
If it was corruption or malice then this would not have happened!

Nothing will keep me away from Ginos Frozen pizza and their tiger loaves.

I love all the random shit you find in there.

Not great but no corruption or malice to it by the look of it

I never said anything about corruption but they underpaid 5m for not paying shift work correctly & then 9m due to system errors. That's incompetent

@malaboi

I just hate it and think it has consistently the worst quality and least healthy food of any supermarket. It may be cheap but it's very poor value for money if you look at ingredients

Surely the branded stuff they sell is exactly the same ingredients as the branded stuff in other supermarkets? Eg I can pay a 6 pack of Heinz beans for £3 something in Iceland whereas one tin in my local m&s is almost £1.

I was just going to post the same, surely it's stupid to think that all the brand names make special not as good versions for Iceland. That cant be true can it? How would they organise that.

If you don't want to shop at a particular shop that's up to you but I don't understand why you'd think someone else was being unreasonable to shop there

@whenwillthemadnessend I thought it was where palm oil was sourced that mattered.
Willing to be corrected.

And they would have had no choice but to report it so I'm not sure why that deserves a slap on the back.

A sale increase means nothing. My sales increased this year by 15% however my profit margin is still down 38%.

That’s because my items with high profit margins are not selling (party related) but lots of the cheap little things are but I can’t but too much profit on those as no one would pay it.

@malaboi

Not great but no corruption or malice to it by the look of it

I never said anything about corruption but they underpaid 5m for not paying shift work correctly & then 9m due to system errors. That's incompetent

So you’ll never shop at Tesco again because of this error (which they handled honestly and transparently after identifying)?

Iceland have been brilliant for me since lockdown. Nearly impossible to get deliveries from tescos etc here unless you have a pass. Iceland can always deliver at short notice. Also when everyone was queuing out side tescos Iceland had few people in so was a great option.
Some of their food isn’t as good eg. Fruit but mostly it’s no different.
A lot of virtue signalling from the other supermarkets doesn’t both me.

@FlyingBurrito I already said I wasn't heavily invested in defending this opinion. I don't buy a lot of branded things and I don't shop in m&s. I personally think iceland sells terrible quality, unhealthy shit so I don't shop there. It wasn't a very serious post and I don't have anything else very useful to add!

@Lentillover1900 I don't shop at Tesco anyway as I don't like it plus don't have one locally but this is another reason for me to not shop there. The minimum wage is already shockingly low.

I'm not sure what my opinion of Tesco is any less valid then your one of Iceland?

[quote malaboi]@Lentillover1900 I don't shop at Tesco anyway as I don't like it plus don't have one locally but this is another reason for me to not shop there. The minimum wage is already shockingly low.

I'm not sure what my opinion of Tesco is any less valid then your one of Iceland? [/quote]
Ah!

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This is no ordinary immorality, this is Iceland immorality.

@user1471462428

This is no ordinary immorality, this is Iceland immorality.

Who were the supermarkets given huge amounts of cash? They did a roaring trade during lockdown.
I have never shopped at Iceland but for other reasons.

@malaboi

I don't shop in Tesco but absolutely wouldn't now as they were fined for underpaying 70k staff

They didn’t underpay them deliberately, flagged it themselves and paid back-pay when it came to their attention. And weren’t most of the under-payments less than a tenner?