Waitrose and diversity hires

Moosh is an Xer based in London and she's currently running:

You can see they set out their stall from the get-go with "high class grocers". Wiki has this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitrose

Waitrose Limited, trading as Waitrose & Partners, is a brand of British supermarkets, founded in 1904 as Waite, Rose & Taylor, later shortened to Waitrose. 

It was acquired in 1937 by employee-owned retailer John Lewis Partnership, which still sells groceries under the brand. Its head offices are located in Bracknell, Berkshire.

As at April 2023, Waitrose & Partners has 329 shops across Great Britain and the Channel Islands, including 65 "little Waitrose" convenience shops. They also export products to 52 countries and have locations in the Middle East.

The chain has been described by The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian as having an "upmarket" reputation, although former managing director Mark Price suggested prices are competitive to Tesco, a mid-market chain. 

The company has a royal warrant to supply groceries, wine, and spirits to King Charles III.

This current issue we're contending with and which is splitting the west, as intended, even extended to Waitrose:

In February 2015, Waitrose Kitchen magazine included an advertising pamphlet, "Taste of Israel", submitted by the Israeli government, in which traditional Arabic foods were referred to as Israeli. The advert prompted a social media backlash against Waitrose.

This in itself brands Wikipedia as "anti-semitic" but I'll go no further down that rabbit hole. One intriguing thing to me is Ocado:

Ocado Group plc is a British business based in Hatfield, England, which licenses grocery technology. It also owns a 50% share in the UK grocery retail business Ocado.com (the other 50% is owned by UK retailer Marks & Spencer).

Perhaps the greatest blight on the chain was:

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/waitrose-going-woke-going-broke-under-dame-empty-shelves/

ON Friday June 9, I received an email from Waitrose telling me to ‘Get ready to celebrate Pride’.

Boasting about Waitrose’s woke credentials, it said: ‘It’s Pride month, and we’re looking forward to celebrating with family, friends and colleagues – and of course, delicious food and drink! At Waitrose and John Lewis, we’re committed to inclusion – and our LGBTQIA+ network, Pride in the Partnership, is always busy. So far this year, we’ve celebrated LGBTQIA+ History month in February and International Trans Day of Visibility in March with events and educational packs for Partners.’

And of course:

I went to a large Waitrose store on Monday and I can assure you that ‘the cause of the problem’ has not been fixed – more than half of the everyday items I wanted to buy were unavailable. The shelves were empty.

That brings us to John Lewis chairman Dame Sharon White, whom I have affectionately dubbed ‘Empty-Shelves’ White. According to Wikipedia, Dame Sharon has had a stellar career ... (etc. etc.)

The author continued:

Readers will have noticed that all Dame Sharon’s previous jobs were in public-sector organisations where you tend to be handed huge sums of taxpayers’ money for what many of us wouldn’t describe as ‘work’.

Diversity hire, yes.  "Dame" Sharon White:

The rest has been in the news in the not too distant past ... which leaves one last question I'd like answered ... just how much truth is there in the adage "go Woke, go broke"?