Woolworths Australia Day snub

Woolworths and Big W are done with Australia Day. The corporate giant has officially canceled Australia Day in their stores, pulling all memorabilia from their shelves. 

This isn’t overly surprising, Australia Day has been on the chopping block for a few years now, with local councils slowly peeling back celebrations. But it just shows you where their allegiances lie doesn’t it? 

Typical corporate, big business do-gooders aligning themselves with the DEI mob. They’ll do anything to virtue signal and make it seem like they’re moral and righteous on the surface whilst ripping off our Aussie farmers behind closed doors. It’s absolutely disgusting. 

And what was their excuse? They rolled out some PR middle manager to say that they were forced to pull merchandise from shelves because there was just not enough demand! 

BS. So not only are they against celebrating this great country, they’re happy to lie to us. 

This has nothing to do with demand and everything to do with pushing their ideology. An ideology of woke anti-nationalism. 

I called this in November when I filmed a Diwali stand at Woolworths. An entire, very expensive display at the front of the first aisle filled with Diwali merchandise. It was about 6 shelves high and took up the whole front area of the aisle. You know how valuable that space is if you know anything about supermarket retail. Nothing against Diwali, by the way, we should celebrate all cultures in this country, but that includes our own.

Same goes with Big W- they dedicated the front page of their catalogue to Halloween last October, which is a very American holiday, yet come an Australian national day like ANZAC Day or Australia Day, all of a sudden there’s no demand? Give me a break. 

So this Woolworths spokeswoman expects us to believe there’s enough demand for Diwali to justify an entire display but such a lack of demand for Australia Day that all stock needs to be pulled from shelves. We’re not stupid, Woolworths. This is a total double standard.

And this is going to be just the beginning. Australia Day will be gone and then it will be ANZAC day, Remembrance Day, any day that is of significance to the foundations of our country. As a country we spend a month celebrating Pride but putting aside one day to celebrate all the great things about our nation is sacrilege? 

I was really happy to see that Peter Dutton has finally shown his face as opposition leader and has come out swinging on this issue, calling for a boycott of Woolworths after their stance. 

“If they don’t want to celebrate Australia Day, well that’s a decision for them, but I think people should boycott Woolworths.

“I would advise very strongly to take your business elsewhere and go to IGA or Coles or Aldi.

“I think until we get common sense out of a company like Woolworths, I don’t think they should be supported by the public.

“For Woolworths to start taking political positions to oppose Australia Day is against the national interest, the national spirit.

“And most Australians, I think, just want to go to Woolies and get groceries at the cheapest price possible because a lot of them are struggling to pay the bill when they get to the checkout at the moment.”

 And he’s completely right. Woolworths are a supermarket, why are they taking a political stance? And this isn’t the first time they’ve involved themselves in political issues. Last year they donated money to The Voice and stocked specialty Pride merchandise. They will push woke and progressive agendas but will make excuses not to uphold national pride. 

It’s the same with Qantas, why are these publicly listed, for profit companies taking political stances? These companies employ people and have stakeholders with a massive range of different opinions all across the political spectrum, they need to respect that and leave the personal opinions of management at the door. Stick to flying planes and selling produce. 

The huge irony is that companies with these stances claim they want to unite the nation and have no division, but they’re actually creating the most division of everyone. Australia Day has always been a uniting day for the nation where everyone, no matter where they’re from and what they believe in can take a day off and celebrate under one flag. Celebrating our differences but uniting in the fact that we all live in this great country. 

And Woolworths now want to get rid of that. They want to create an imaginary problem, pit us against each other and replace joy with misery and resentment. These big corporation aren’t on our side, make no mistake. 

Coles has now come out with a response that I imagine took eight hours for their PR department to expertly construct. 

A Coles spokesperson said, 'We are stocking a small range of Australian-themed summer entertaining merchandise throughout January which is popular with our customers for sporting events such as the cricket and tennis, as well as for the Australia Day weekend.' 

Look, it’s better than nothing and they’re very obviously trying to appease both sides. 

It just makes me extremely uncomfortable that everything large corporates do is now seen through a woke, virtue signalling lens. 

Who can we trust anymore?