Aldi Defends Decision To Close Till To Customers Buying Alcohol http://dailym.ai/2vdJUvj

[Samuraisan]

Oh for god's sake.

[-Talbot-]

It mentions 'Haram'
isn't that good enough?

[-Talbot-]

Your argument of

''Out of the millions of transactions in the UK each day, how many reports have there been of Muslims refusing to handle alcohol in a supermarket?''


Backs up the posters saying this Muslim should serve alcohol (as the rest do)... what is so special about this particular Muslim?

[THECORBYLOON]

You said your list of E-numbers was about pig fat. Your link also says some of the additives are halal.

Are you saying that a Muslim refusing to handle alcohol should also refuse to handle a product containing cochineal for example?

[Mamyalynne]

We all know that the vast majority of Muslims working in retail will happily sell you anything they stock, we can read lists and web pages of info but in truth the only person who can explain their actions is the employee themselves.

I rather doubt they will be going to the press in the same way, we'll see.

[THECORBYLOON]

Surely the fact that this made the papers is an indication of how rarely it happens?

[-Talbot-]

TCL Are you saying all these sites warning about E numbers are spoof?
If they are kosher then this Muslim will no doubt handle Haram products during his working day ... yes?

You are just using deflection tactics now.

[-Talbot-]

THECORBYLOON
Surely the fact that this made the papers is an indication of how rarely it happens?



So once again ... why is this Muslim more precious than other Muslims?
Why should he be treated differently?

[NoMercy]

Being an isolated incident does not make it right.

This is where it starts. You pander to their whims and then it snowballs.

[THECORBYLOON]

TALBOT you were using defective tactics when you posted a long list of E-numvers and said they were about pig fat which is clearly wrong.

I have no idea how devout the member of staff is but clearly they were unhappy about handling alcohol. Other than having a list of statements from the manufacturer of every product Aldi sell, how would the employee readily know it contained a haram ingredient?

Alcohol is clearly haram and is readily identifiable as such if presented with a bottle of wine or a dozen cans of Stella.

Maybe the employee was being pragmatic about being unable to identify every haram product but felt differently about alcohol.

In the same way that followers of a religion have various levels of adherence, this same employee may be strict about alcohol but not strict about products with cochineal for example.

[THECORBYLOON]

"Backs up the posters saying this Muslim should serve alcohol (as the rest do)... what is so special about this particular Muslim?"

The reverse can be argued, it could be it happens many times but other customers have not been that upset they felt the need to publicise it.

[-Talbot-]

Don't blame me, blame the Muslim group that run the site.

I had no idea I couldn't trust them.

[-Talbot-]

One minute it is rare and now it happens many times ....

[-SharonA-]

Oh god this still going on. What it all boils down to is a matter of opinion. Some on here cannot seem to get their head around that Aldi wants this, Aldi allows this. All this talk of job title and handling alcohol part of being a cashier. Obviously Aldi has changed the rules to their liking. The role of cashier has changed from years ago when they literally only handled money, so who rewrote the rules. Just because some of us are not bothered doesn't mean we endorse what the 'bad' muslims get up to. As I said they're not all bad.

[-Talbot-]

As I said they're not all bad.


354 answers and I don't think I have read one that says ' they're all bad'

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - // As I said they're not all bad.


354 answers and I don't think I have read one that says ' they're all bad' //

You won't find an answer that says Aldi staff obey the laws of gravity either, some things you can just take for granted without the need to bring them into a debate.

[THECORBYLOON]

TALBOT, I said it COULD be etc ,a big difference in meaning.

[-Talbot-]

andy, who brought it into the debate?

[-Talbot-]

And I and many others have said this employee could serve the alcohol, there is nothing stopping them ... absolutely nothing other than their pigheadedness.

[Islay]

Oh well because you and others have said that they could serve booze then they must do it straight away!

[-Talbot-]

^
er yeah ok.


What if they had an employee with even stricter religious beliefs ... should those beliefs be listened to and even worse implemented?