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Waitrose
and
Climate Change
Below are
extracts of letters between the supermarket company Waitrose and Peter Shullot
about climate change. The letters in full are at the bottom of the page. This is
one of 65 sets of letters so you can find out what your supermarket, energy
supplier and car manufacturer, and oil companies, airlines, house builders and
other companies really think about climate change. The name Peter Shullot
is made up – it is an anagram of The Polluters.
To
Mark Price, Managing Director –
Good work. You’re Best Supermarket of the Year in the Decanter World Wine
Awards. You deserve nothing less. Mrs Shullot always tells the children what an
excellent supermarket you are catering for all pockets when she drags them
around one of your stores. As your slogan says, Good food, honestly priced.
Ocado is an odd name for your online shopping – it sounds like a type of South
American possum. But like with everything else I’m sure you know what you’re
doing
Now, the wife and I have diverse tastes. She likes line dancing and I like lap
dancing. And we frequently disagree about whose turn it is to load the
dishwasher. But one thing we agree on – because I talk about it all the time –
is climate change. Neither of us believes it’s real.
Nevertheless I see that you are doing something about climate change and that’s
admirable. As an esteemed US president said, ‘when the going gets tough, the
tough get going’ (Richard Nixon). People are happy to read about climate change
and pass judgement on it, but not actually do anything about it. So why should
you?
Waitrose replied –
I would like to assure you that our customers are very important to us. I have
noted all the specific issues you have raised, although I would point out that
as a company we have to take note of, and have an awareness of, all current
issues.
Letter to Waitrose
Reply from Waitrose
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