Coles' chief marketing officer Lisa Ronson told Sky News the retail giant took its role as “essential service” during the depths of the COVID-19 crisis. A surge in panic buying in the nascent stage of Australia's COVID-19 outbreak saw sales figures surge to $8.23 billion in the third quarter - up 13.8 per cent on the same time last year.
“It really resonated with the Australian people because we were trying to look after those who couldn’t get into the supermarket. “We also shifted our whole online business to look after those people who were elderly or who were in hibernation.” She said the company’s marketing department was separated into two teams, each with a specific focus on providing information to customers.
Coles Think_TV And who decides that? We shut down small business to increase the profits of large corporations. Talk about greed and injustice.
Coles Think_TV Oh, please. Profits before people. Always.
Coles Think_TV Thank god for that.
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