{"id":165,"date":"2014-12-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/27\/the-new-slaves\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T21:10:09","slug":"the-new-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/27\/the-new-slaves\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NEW SLAVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred and eighty years ago the British slavery act came into being. During the last few years we have seen the return of sales assistants in the store of Matalan become the modern day slaves. You may ask what am I talking about\u201a let me explain. This store opened Christmas Eve just like all major stores and supermarkets and closed on Christmas Day. A certain lady I know who works for them worked Christmas Eve\u201a had Christmas day off\u201a however\u201a had to be at the store for 4am having got up at 3.30am for the Boxing Day sales. The whole purpose of this sale\u201a was to discount stock new and old\u201a to sell to the mainly ethnic Asian population\u201a who would you believe were actually queuing at 4.00am. The store did not open until 5.00am only for viewing\u201a then at 6.00am legally the stock could be sold. I asked what was her role in this new form of slavery\u201a she responded it was to pick up the clothes thrown on the floor in the madness that is known as the Boxing Day sales. I would request that you relay this story to friends\u201a and that we raise awareness of this modern day slavery that is Matalan. Shame on you Matalan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred and eighty years ago the British slavery act came into being. During the last few years we have seen the return of sales assistants in the store of Matalan become the modern day slaves. You may ask what am I talking about\u201a let me explain. This store opened Christmas Eve just like all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}