General Chat

As well as a ten percent discount for NHS staff, about which I have no issue Morrisons are now offering a ten percent discount for teachers.

I am not decrying teachers in any way but I think there are others to whom I am considerably more grateful in the current situation.

i really couldn't imagine life without my dustmen and I do remember the 'Winter of Discontent'. They don't get paid as much as teachers and neither do they complain as much about their pay as do teachers.

There are others too. Where would we be without or postmen? Shop assistants, delivery drivers.

I agree, Sharron.

I am not surprised - indeed, I am glad - that Morrisons chose NHS staff, but I am very surprised that they chose one other group out of the many who have kept up their end throughout. I'm not sure that I would continue to shop at Morrisons if I were a police officer, postman or another essential worker.

Someone at Morrisons has dropped a clanger, I think. He/she may learn the hard way how not to alienate groups of people.

I don't think that is a good thing at all, and I think it will make teachers unpopular. I think I can see the reasoning behind it, teachers have had to put themselves at some sort of risk by having the children back at school but as JoyLouise says what about policemen and as Sharron says there are a lot of other workers worthy of help. Morrisons you have got it wrong.

I agree Sharron. Just google 'discountsforteachers' and you will be surprised at all the perks and discounts they can already get. They aren't badly paid (a Primary School Deputy Headteacher can earn over £50,000 a year), they haven't been furloughed and are being paid full wages throughout the pandemic and have had no worry about losing their jobs. There was no risk for them when the schools were closed either.

Everyone's job is of value and Morrisons could have helped some of the much lower paid that have worked so hard to help us all instead.