Comments on: ALDI Supermarket Questioned Over ‘No Alcohol’ Till Sign

By: Earthling

Earthling — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 01:23:20 +0000

In New Zealand it is unlawful for most businesses to open on Good Friday and Easter Sunday – essentially only food outlets, gas stations and businesses with exemptions to cater for tourists are permitted to trade on those “holy” days. Other businesses can be prosecuted and fined if they open. Many ignore the ban and trade regardless, because of the substantial public demand for goods and services on those days. New Zealand is a largely secular society, but its shop trading hours legislation remains a Christian relic. It is controversial every year. So it’s not just the religious peculiarities of Muslims that interfere with the ability of the general public to shop – the peculiar sensibilities of Christians do too. Neither is a good thing for the rest of us.

By: Dave2112

Dave2112 — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 18:13:38 +0000

It is common knowledge also that alcohol is produced and consumed in Turkey, but below is a real revelation.

As an addition to my earlier comment, here’s something of interest I have recently found. Beer being brewed in that most Islamic of countries.. Syria!! So why all the fuss? Barada Beer, a pale lager beer at 3.4% alcohol and Al Shark (or Al- Chark) beer, another lager at 3.7% alcohol. Here is the evidence:

https://www.rt.com/viral/401158-syria-beer-factory-opens/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Syria

Therefore as I said before, this is total hypocrisy. No Muslim should be allowed to refuse to serve alcohol when it is being produced in a strict Islamic country. Do they brew the beer, refuse to serve it to one another, refuse to drink it, and only export it to Western countries? Muslims must handle this at all stages of production.

By: MEGUSTA LAMUSSICA

MEGUSTA LAMUSSICA — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:36:00 +0000

Aldi took wrong decision. Take off that sign!! If the employee does not want to serve alcohol or foods that are not allowed in his religion then his problem only. . It does not become a customer problem. He should have not applied for the job in first place. Aldi like other supermarkets sells alcohol,so if for whatever reason you do not want to handle alcohol you do not apply for a job there. It’s common sense. Full stop. Aldi management could have offered the person to do something else that day.. If not then he gets sent home. He refused to do his job. Probably Aldi does remember about the 2010 case in which a guy refused to handle alcohol in a other supermarket. The supervisor told him clearly do you task or you go home. The guy was able to sue the supermarket for unfair dismiss and won the case in court. I’d love to sue the idiot judge!!
So probably Aldi did not want to go down that path. Well what could we expect in the future? Pork food items taken off the shelf because they might desturb the religion of the staff?? Please!! I’m all for workers rights but not when it comes to this stilly little things that really do not matter. Maybe Aldi should focus on paying their staff a bit more and make their working conditions better and less stressful. If an employee does not want to sell what supermarket does sell due to religion reasons or other personal reasons (being a vegetarian or vegan) that’s his problem only.
Where I used to work until few months ago I had a guy working in the kitchen as chef and in the morning he was preparing become and sausage sandwiches, ham sandwiches for lunch or roast pork, he never once complained. He even was working in the evening on Thursday and Fridays at out internal pub and serving alcohol. This is called accepting the job duties you have applied for. Not happy for whatever reason? You give your week or month notice and you go. Nobody forces you to work in a facility that sells pork or alcohol if you are a Muslim and allow your religion to dictate even your job duties.

By: Fay Anagnostopoulou Mantzari

Fay Anagnostopoulou Mantzari — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 08:51:44 +0000

Or another continent would be better.

By: Fay Anagnostopoulou Mantzari

Fay Anagnostopoulou Mantzari — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 08:47:52 +0000

This is not only workplace. It’s they ridiculous choices we haveade throughout Europe during this “humanitarian” trend, and the beginning of the end for our continent’s civilization.

By: Lynne Beaty

Lynne Beaty — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:12:00 +0000

an employee who cant handle the checkout could be better placed in the,meat isle oops no pork bacon , tinned isle opps no tinned ham and sausages,best put them on the washing powder isle

By: StillOkie

StillOkie — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 14:22:57 +0000

Of course the more in number they become the more in their religious demands must be met. Their religion is based on pleasing their God by their “works”. So any sin they commit is blameable on temptation, not on them personally, but on their environment. You are to blame for their temptation. When they become overwhelmed with all the sinning against Allah, to assure themselves of their “rewards” they then go on their Jihad to die for Allah and their Caliphate to redeem themselves.

By: angela cowling

angela cowling — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:21:30 +0000

Yes, Aldi should consider replacing/not hiring an employee who does not wish to handle alcohol/pork for religious reasons. It must be understood that it would be considered most unfair of Aldi to even to think of asking an employee who did not wish to handle those items, to do so as part of their job. Therefore, best not to hire them in the first place.

By: Edward Quinn

Edward Quinn — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 21:57:09 +0000

This country is going down the Moslem drain -if your religion forbids you to handle/sell pork/alcohol, then common sense should tell you not to go and work there…if you’re a non-Christian, you must fit in with our culture, NOT the other way around!

By: Dave2112

Dave2112 — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:47:00 +0000

Total hypocrisy, the pork is in a package and the alcohol is in a bottle so this individual is not coming into contact with either of these products. I have been served by a Pakistani Muslim in Sainsbury’s (he had the Islamic beard) who had no qualms about serving me with a bottle of whisky and a packet of pork pies. also, how many Pakistani Muslims or Muslims of Turkish or other ethnicity own off licenses in this country and handle alcohol on a daily basis? If there is any part of a job description that an individual cannot fulfil on the basis of race creed or religion they should not be in this job. Shops are not religious organisations. Are British Christians allowed to refuse to serve Halal certified products? I’d bet that they would soon be dismissed if they did. Aldi should show some guts and dismiss this individual. There are many thousands of people out there who could perform this task without any religious sensitivities and without causing offence to us native Brits.