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Asda has announced it will stop selling kitchen knives by the end of April in response to concerns over knife crime.
The supermarket chain confirmed knives will be removed from all stores.
“The decision to stop selling these items comes in response to rising concerns about knife crime in the UK, particularly those involving children and young people,” a spokesman for the supermarket chain said in a statement.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/asda-to-remove-kitchen-knives-from-sale-by-end-of-april-amid-concerns-over-knife-crime/ar-BBUyMwX?ocid=spartanntp
The supermarket chain confirmed knives will be removed from all stores.
“The decision to stop selling these items comes in response to rising concerns about knife crime in the UK, particularly those involving children and young people,” a spokesman for the supermarket chain said in a statement.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/asda-to-remove-kitchen-knives-from-sale-by-end-of-april-amid-concerns-over-knife-crime/ar-BBUyMwX?ocid=spartanntp
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We will not change the way we live.
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Well done Asda on acting so quickly... In calculating the free publicity outweighs the lost sales.
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Has Diane blamed the supermarkets for the knife crime epidemic then?
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I doubt it. She wouldn't want to risk getting banned from a food shop.
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No need to stop selling knives. Just check the purchaser is over 18 and consult a Dulux chart before deciding to sell.
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They already have to check that the purchaser is 25+
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According to the radio, single knives are their most stolen item.
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they will stop selling cars next to 'cure' drink driving
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The police don't get involved with shoplifting if the value of the goods stolen is less than a certain amount (£50?).
I hope this rule doesn't apply if someone is caught stealing a £10 kitchen knife. |
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Thats it then knife crime thwarted in 1 fell swoop .Cheap rancid publicity.
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Asda's owned by Walmart, but I didn't have much luck when I tried to buy an assault rifle off them last week.
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Manufacturers could make fewer knives with a blunt or rounded point. Mostly you only need a sharp blade for cooking purposes.
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* Fewer knives with a sharp point. More with a bunt or rounded one.
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We could stop selling foods that need cutting up, but you should not have to sanitise the world for the sake of a few savages.
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It was just a thought. It might just save one or two lives.
Besides, I find I can separate my sausages with the blade although you do need a sharp point to pierce them. |
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Better to remove the problem than change what millions of people do in their own kitchens, knives are not the problem.
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And how do you remove the problem?
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What are you suggesting, saddo?
Ethnic cleansing? |
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You are a product of your environment.
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Unless have the environment of lesser cultures thrust upon your own, then you become a victim of their environment.
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That's history saddo. We just have to put up with these "lesser cultures". How do we fix it now?
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It's a futile gesture which will do nothing to solve knife crime.
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You seem keen on culture mixing porcy and probably wanted em here, what would you do with em now its too late?
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Looks like someone at Asda has been promoted above their ability.
Asda are in business to make money not make futile gestures that can only cost them money. |
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I asked you. Sounded so simple at 18.32. I'm just keen to learn. I trust you're not going to run away from it.
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It's win win for Asda, it's good publicity for them and they deter troublesome types from venturing into Asda looking to steal them, having said that, if all outlets stopped selling them, they are still accessible online, you can buy them on ebay.
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They peel them with their steely knives, then they smash them all to bits …...
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How is it good publicity for Asda, when they're telling their customers to go elsewhere if they want to buy cutlery?
And how do they know it will deter troublesome types from shopping at Asda, when they've still got the rest of the store to steal from? Is everyone who steals a knife from Asda a youngster looking to knife someone. How can anyone possibly know that? |
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it's good publicity because it's free publicity that they'd otherwise have to spend several hundreds of thousands on, it's a common trick, Asda sell everthing these days including cloths, one item not in stock is not really going to hurt their pockets, a lot of the people using knives are stealing them as said previously and who knows what else when they're there. It wont solve much tbh but their primary aim seems to be free national press and they're happy to oblige as it helps them fill their slots/pages.
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Great post Darren,never a truer spoken. Fair play sir
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I still yearn for the good old days when the white british would attach the knives to the wheels of their chariots.
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And this guy thinks
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I see, so if the lady of the house wants a knife or cutlery, she doesn't go to Asda to spend her £100 on shopping she goes to Tesco that week because they sell knives there.
And probably enjoys the experience so continues shopping at Tesco. A very enterprising move from Asda. In cases like that Asda would be better off giving the knives away. |
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And probably enjoys the experience so continues shopping at Tesco.
I think you might find a lot of ladees want a bit more out of life these days, doc. |
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You fools, the obvious solution is to become safely ensconced in a toxic nucleus of white supremacists and neo-fascists on Betfair's chit-chat sub-forum.
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Righting the world's wrongs, one thread at a time.
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How would you know anything about women Muldoon?
You haven't even rung the bell yet. |
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kitchen knives are not food and drink they you go back for every few days, you'd buy kitchen knives once in a blue moon, more likely to buy the knife sharpeners for the old set. It's a very small risk when it comes to losing customers.
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Okay Darren you've made your point.
As the interviewer said - ''don't call us we'll call you.'' |