Ocado boycott after support of Primesight action

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On discovering today that Ocado are continuing to use Primesight after they removed Standing For Women's billboard, thereby showing they have no respect for women or our rights, I have emailed them to tell them that I will no longer shop with them as they support misogyny. I'm just wondering how many others have done the same and hoping this thread gets picked up by twitter and/or the press.

I cancelled Wednesday got an email today with lots of offers.

I'm going to have to email again using words of one syllable aren't I?

Will he be delivering a little more than groceries on his rounds today?

I'm enjoying trustpilot more than ever these days. Who's going to do the first Haiku?

Also re Ocado, I believe it is really quite automated with robots and stuff in the warehouses and lots of "computer says no" situations where humans cannot use their initiative eg to pack bags properly, so the whole set up is not very supportive of human jobs, or general human rights and dignity for that matter!

I was a reluctant user of Ocado due to circs, but now Waitrose have better slots for where I live I can get the organic stuff without needing to plan a week ahead which we can't do. And Sains have great organic stuff. No good organic farm boxes near here sadly.

I like that Waitrose has the partner structure and hope that the recent name change is more than superficial as I think they can be more partner friendly.

So believe it or not, I called to cancel and the guy told me that because it's under my husband's email address, DH has to call and cancel. Then he said "can I ask why are you cancelling" and I just started laughing! It was so ridiculous that he was asking to talk to my husband!

Well that is data protection though. If you are nof the registered account holder they can't close it down. However your husband can give them permission for anyone else to speak on his behalf.

They're not going to apologise.... just got this via email
Unfortunately at this time we're not issuing written responses and public announcements regarding this issue, so I attempted to call you back to explain matters further but was unable to get through.

Off to Waitrose permanently for me then

So believe it or not, I called to cancel and the guy told me that because it's under my husband's email address, DH has to call and cancel. Then he said "can I ask why are you cancelling" and I just started laughing! It was so ridiculous that he was asking to talk to my husband!

Under His Eye.....

Sorry penny are you saying the driver mentioned Ocado had been mentioned on LBC or did you mention it to him?

Unfortunately at this time we're not issuing written responses and public announcements regarding this issue, so I attempted to call you back to explain matters further but was unable to get through.

How can that be "unfortunate"? It's their own choice not to apologise properly - nothing to do with fortune or accident.

The consequences are "unfortunate" for them though.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ocado-vans-deliver-sexual-advances-too-kxtxd2zq8
Ocado are linked to a lot of misogyny, this is just the latest.

That's disappointing. I will cancel my smartpass and start shopping with Sainsbury's and Waitrose.

I wonder how many hundreds of us have cancelled our accounts, there must be at least 50 complaints on trust pilot and a few hundred on this thread. I guess they think we'll forget about it.

I won't.

Has this been picked up anywhere in the media?

Nah no one gives a toss about women. Even when they are the target audience

Sorry Fekko Haiku is presently out of stock, we have made a substitution to your order

"I don't care
What they're going to say
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway"

I wonder if it will be covered in the trade press, or in advertising and PR journals.

Somehow I think the marketing departments of their competitors are reading this thread.

Just spoke to a guy to follow up from my message I sent on Wednesday. I was put on hold for a while and then he informed me, that as I could imagine there was rather a lot going on with regards to this, and could he get a member of the team that is working on this to call me.
I so hope they redeem themselves but am not hopeful. I much prefer Ocado so it will be a pain in the ass to change, and I will miss my reviewer freebies. I feel so frustrated and helpless with the current situation that I will cancel.

Birdseyes

Have just finalised the Waitrose order to replace the Ocado one I cancelled.

Just wish the Waitrose website wasn’t so clunky compared to th Ocado app! Someone mentioned a Waitrose app but I couldn’t find it - does it exist?

They can't really 'redeem' themselves as it's been so long and it's not as if they don't have the money or team to work out a solution.

Primesight seem to have got out of this quite cheaply.

Woker- the Waitrose delivery guy mentioned he was listening to LBC re trans and he couldn’t believe what they were trying to say! He said ‘ it was crazy talk’ and he too didn’t care what people ‘felt’ like or dressed like but please stop with the nonsense. It was very funny.

Did they ring back? Did they fuck. Wankers

Is their new solution to pay people to post shit like this?

I know I will have to cancel, clutching at straws!

I've had the same standard email from Millie. Have responded pointing out (as have many)

• why are you apologising in private to women where you acted publicly against them - however accidentally?
• uhm, the Equality Act protects sex, you may want to act within the law. And yes, I see again what you think of women.
• yeah you can still cancel my account, I won't use a company that supports anti women activism.