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| To
all concerned customers of Switched On Gardener & Target TV3
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| Documentation
for Top Shelf Productions |
| As you may
have seen tonight Mediaworks owners of TV3 played a Target episode
involving SOG. We are deeply concerned that the producer of Target Simon Roy saw it fit to employ under 18 year olds and deliberately sent them into our shop at 36 Cavendish Drive Manukau City. When a representive of Top Shelf Productions the makers of Target was asked as to why they did not obey our strict company policy of SOG being an R18 venue with No Video Filming Voice Recording or Photography as is well sign posted in every SOG venue for customer privacy. He suggested I get my lawyer to ring their lawyer; obviously they can’t answer a simple straight question themselves and want us to spend money unnecessarily on lawyers. |
| I would like to apologise on behalf of the company to every SOG customer and anyone else who is concerned after viewing this heavily edited segment to suit sensationalism TV. |
| The staff member concerned was identified by Target on the 3rd of November, but no information to identify him from our end was provided untill the 9th of November. This was way too late for SOG to deal with this incident as quickly as we would have liked to. Fireworks can only be sold to the public from the 2nd to midnight on the 5th of November….Target missed the boat to help us get this sorted urgently. |
| The staff member concerned has been with us 6 months and is currently suspended for his actions. SOG will not be dismissing this staff member as we believe he has been the victim of a very Targeted twisted attack. He has agreed that he was probably a little excited by the immense amount of customers that entered our store over this 4 day period and should have been a lot more vigilant on ensuring anyone he served was 18 years old. |
| If and when Target supply me with the missing 40 plus seconds of footage from this incident, which they were not willing to show me yesterday, of what happened before they cut into what appears to be a very poor statement. I stand by my decision to back our employee and retrain and not dismiss, he of course will be resitting his Fireworks Handlers licence that he only gained 2 weeks ago. |
| I have also today donated on his behalf, all his outstanding wage bonus money owed ($1000.00) to www.pawjustice.co.nz seems like a good cause so SOG encourages others to follow suit. |
| SOG have spent many thousands of dollars on staff training and now have around 40 trained licenced fireworks handlers on our staff….but yet Target is not even checking if the people selling Fireworks have a handlers licence…..why not ??...this is not to say we aren’t disappointed that our ERMA handlers training did not seem to be adequate for this employee. |
| I have personally seen fireworks purchased from fireworks stalls that appeared to have no product certification as required by NZ law……Yet Target is not checking this either…why not?.. We have spent thousands of dollars making sure every Firework we sell complies with NZ laws and is safe for public use? |
| Why did Target not target actual customers we had actually served checking if they were 18, rather than bringing in their own zitty kids?....far better story I would say and I would like to think there would have been none. |
| I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all those customers who purchased our range of Pyro Co Fireworks this season it was massive. I also give my personal assurance that SOG will improve on this unfortunate incident and will be far stricter on ID with our younger looking customers. |
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| Peter
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| Switched
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