Comments on: Coles Targets Women, Pays GST on Feminine Hygiene Products

By: James

James — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:33:45 +0000

If I was Coles I’d just bump up my prices (feminine hygiene) then take the percent off. Many of the women would be taken in by the marketing and wouldn’t check. Then I’d bump up the other womens targeted (makup, creams, etc) products to make more money. They are already getting plenty of free advertising via women with this campaign. Women always go for the emotional marketing so why not take full advantage?

By: Helene

Helene — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:15:51 +0000

Please, get off your moralistic high horses, Coles is just trying to address an issue that affects half the population, they aren’t trying to save the world, just make a small difference to an unfair system. If you are so concerned, lobby the government, but don’t boycott Coles you idiots!

By: Kris

Kris — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:43:48 +0000

0.09090909 rounds up to 9.1%, its all in that extra .1 dude

By: Julian

Julian — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:02:33 +0000

It is only a 9% discount. (1/11th = 0.09090909). Am sure you would save much more at Aldi, Franklins, etc, especially if you buy half a trolley of stuff. And especially as you are not paying for their fuel “discount” and flight schemes.

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:14:16 +0000

How come ice isn’t GST for inuits?
How come sugar isn’t GST for diabetics?
How come food isn’t GST free for the homeless?

There are a lot more issues that need addressing rather than women and their hygiene. Coles is missing the bigger picture here, and until Coles addresses this problem I will also boycott Coles.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:49:22 +0000

By the very nature of its marketing campaign it is about giving a certain demographic privileges. Not only is it enough for many marketing campaigns to make men look and act like buffoons, now we are being disadvantaged! Men – boycott Coles and shop elsewhere

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:17:41 +0000

This is really just a ploy to get women to shop at Coles, framed in a very catchy and indeed skin-deep (women’s liberation, feminism etc) way.

Why not cut taxes for immigrants, for gay shoppers or for Aboriginals? Probably because there are no goods sold in Coles stores specific to them, or which cannot for the world be advertised without opening some deep societal wound?

Why is this becoming such an issue only now, many decades after the first waves of feminism, and during the midst of a Global Financial Crisis?

I’m far too cynical as you can see! I should have more faith in our ‘fresh-food people’ supermarket monopolies. After all, they only have our mothers’, daughters’, wives’ interests in mind.

It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with drawing business away from the competition.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:46:37 +0000

It’s ridiculous. Why on earth do we whinge about paying a few cents extra for the vast quantity and choice of sanitary products we can buy, when some women in other parts of the world don’t have access to any and would gladly pay to be able to access what we pampered westerners take for granted?

By: Amber Robinson

Amber Robinson — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:01:45 +0000

Women wear deoderant and use shavers too… I don’t think these items are GST exempt for them.

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:29:34 +0000

Shavers, shaving cream, deoderant. But that is not what I am saying. All hygiene products should be GST Free, not just the female ones. Why do women get special priviliges and men are looked over again.

On the whole I think this campaign is incoherently sexist.