Shop @ Coles This Friday

[DNGRUS]

If you shop at Coles, wait till this Friday as coles is donating all profits for the day to the BUSH FIRE APPEAL, so pass on the word

[Phatboy]

Good stuff. Will be doing that.

[NISMØ]

Yeh my work (Woolworths) is doing similar by donation 100% of profits on friday aswell.

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

what a great country we live in

[Bec]

A great initiative to take advantage of.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

i'll be at work from 9:30am till 11pm... someone buy something for me

[BeEnAr]

Here a tip. My Fiance says if you buy a $100 coles gift card it is all profit as they don't have to pay for product to sell, so Fire appeal gets $100 you get $100 gift card you can use to pay for your shopping instead of cash, then fire appeal gets another hit up of profit cash from your shopping!

Makes sense but not sure if gift cards are classed in this thing or not.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

dude... susie's a f**king genius!

i love it! :PBJ:

[DNGRUS]

Here a tip. My Fiance says if you buy a $100 coles gift card it is all profit as they don't have to pay for product to sell, so Fire appeal gets $100 you get $100 gift card you can use to pay for your shopping instead of cash, then fire appeal gets another hit up of profit cash from your shopping!

Makes sense but not sure if gift cards are classed in this thing or not.

lol i dont think it actually works that way

[Phatboy]

Here a tip. My Fiance says if you buy a $100 coles gift card it is all profit as they don't have to pay for product to sell, so Fire appeal gets $100 you get $100 gift card you can use to pay for your shopping instead of cash, then fire appeal gets another hit up of profit cash from your shopping!

Makes sense but not sure if gift cards are classed in this thing or not.

Lol, neither do I, but it would be cool if it were true.

[Jack-]

I work at coles and found $3 in the trolleys and put it in the tin, done my bit.

They make most of their profit on the 'smart buy' and 'you'll love' coles brands so buy them.

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

yeah that gift card would be awsome !

$100 to them..... they get the gift card! ... some on look into it ?

[inark]

our work donated 100k and we have a fundraiser today as well and our HR dept has arranged for special payments to be arranged from peoples wages (whatever people authorise to be taken out (1 hours worth of wage a day or at whatever people specify) pretax to be donated.

We'll go to the coles one this Friday, then to the safeway one on the 20th plus donate about 100 cash.

every bit helps

[allblitz]

I'm at coles every 2nd day to fulfill my latte' addiction. Time to stock up on Coles 3ltr milks then

[adznight]

God damn it, I just got back from Safeway.....I forgotted!

[fuzzy_scuz]

oh well, maybe you need some fruit cake?

[GUN_METAL_GTR32]

spent $150 on friday night at caroline springs coles

also took me the missus and 3 friends to bunnings and made them all eat sausage sizzle from there as weel because the cash all goes to the bush fire thing . . . . . and any excuse to go to bunnings lol

[saff_cossie]

We hit the local Coles, queues were big but am sure it was worth it. Will be great to get a final figure as so many other people were there for the same thing. I also set a deductions scheme out of staff pays at work too, either once off or payment reducing over 4 weeks. All for a very worthy cause.

[CeJay]

Heard about 5.5 million was raised.

[KezR33]

I worked 9 hours at Coles on Friday and it was absolutely hectic. Worse than Christmas or Easter. Basically all the staff were at the service area all day, regardless of what department you were in. People went nuts too, bought like 5 years supply of tooth paste, etc. Saw several ~$1000 orders go through my register alone. I work at one of the bigger Coles stores, with 13 registers, and every single one (excluding the 3 express) had at least 10 trolleys lined up.

I will say this though, despite the monster lines that filled the fresh produce area, blocked the deli off and forced people to wait nearly half an hour to reach the register; no one complained. Everyone was in good spirits, polite, friendly and patient.