Greggs shop employee ‘compared Welsh to Tourette's’

"Lampeter is in Ceredigion, where 47.35% of the population speak Welsh." ------- What!? Llambed is under 50% Welsh speaking? Iesu mawr...no wonder the imperialists are gaining confidence

Are we really so insecure about our culture so as to worry about the pathetic comment of a Gregg's employee?

Until the Welsh government extends the rights of Welsh speakers to the private sector then these stories will continue.

I used to sometimes go into Y Popty in Lampeter, where I had no problem speaking Welsh with the staff. I haven't had cause to go to Lampeter for a while, but I noticed recently that Y Popty was closing down, presumably because Greggs arrived. Really sad; locally owned businesses being forced out by chains with no interest in Welsh language or culture. If we really care about our language and culture, we should be supporting local businesses wherever possible, and not big chains from outside Wales.

So many immigrants into Wales bring a positivity and embrace our culture and history.Sadly they are a minority, I wonder if with a population 25% born out with our borders the battle if not lost is past a tipping point.

Until such times that all retail and businesses are more than just obliged to the spirit of spoken Cymraeg, tenuous at best, but actively pursue plans to respond fully to requests in Welsh, there seems little redress. Other then to shop elsewhere. What is the local Council's remit and more to the point what legislation should be considered by our Welsh government to ensure such ridicule and flagrant abuse of a national language is at least reportable and preferably penalised. It might be, given the close proximity to the area where the Welsh Not was inflicted on children who spoke Welsh, that those visiting the shop is required to don a similar collar once inside. To allow this to be unchallenged is negligent, on the basis of harassment directed on those who speak a national language , but there is comfort in the previous remarks that alleged insults of this manner is more to do with the ignorant than the blessed.

In Tenby Laugharne bakery closed soon after Greggs opened up in Tudor Square.

Stand your ground.

Utter tripe!! Nation Cymru should be ashamed of themselves for posted unproven accusations! I'm waiting eagerly for their next hard hitting exposé about UFOs or the like. Quality journalism! Hahaha...

The main reason I don't patronise Greggs in Lampeter and elsewhere is the poor unappetising standard of food. Sadly, Y Popty as mentioned above wasn't that much better if at all as I recall. However the author has given me a further reason not to buy from Greggs. Similarly Peters Pies.

Boycott! I am English, but this is disgusting. There is NO excuse for such behaviour. I expect they will be sacked and Greggs wash their hands of it.

It might seem like a little thing but these little things add up over time. Comments such as this from staff (presumably some English ignoramus) reflect a wider problem. It doesn't help that 8% of the population of Ceredigion are Welsh-born but non Welsh-speaking and therefore set a very poor example to incomers from further afield. But surely Welsh speakers in the County are a significant economic constituency and should be looking to wield that economic power in a more systematic way. Businesses that are not supportive of the language in Y Fro should be boycotted and Welsh-speaking traders supported. There should be some kind of "Yellow Pages" of Welsh-language businesses in Ceredigion and elsewhere that Welsh speakers can refer to when they want to shop. We have this wonderful thing called the Internet do we not? After all, businesses - whether they are large chains or smaller outlets - set up shop in Cere because they look to make a profit. If Welsh speakers don't shop there there then profit margins are dented and it becomes in the interests of said businesses to employ staff who can speak the language. We need to stop looking at the language on a purely cultural level and start looking at hard-nosed economics....

Angharad is on the button, as usual. Why would any sane person go into Gregg's in Lampeter, or Aberystwyth?

Capitalism works if you use it as a weapon. Take money from non-Cymry, but do not give money to non-Cymry. Because money is power. To give someone money is to give them power. If Cymry use capitalism as a weapon within Wales, and consider giving money to non-Cymry to be unclean and wicked as the Jews did with other groups for centuries, Cymry will win.

Angharad, as I remarked yesterday, is absolutely right to emphasise the importance of supporting local enterprises rather than your Greggs, Costa and so on, and Jim & Glasiad are also spot-on in emphasising the potential power of thoughtful consumption. Quite hard, though, to get this message across to the large body of consumers we need to think and act in this way.

Greggs haven't actually done anything wrong here, have they. Stupid employee has been suspended, very swiftly. Taking trade from locally owned businesses, yes, but that is a different issue. I don't see a problem here?

Dechrau anffodus i siop newydd. Wrth gwrs dylai'r rheolwyr wedi paratoi'r staff ymlaen llaw sut i ymddwyn yn nhre gyda chyfartaledd uchel o siaradwyr Cymraeg. Yr angen nawr yw iddynt drefnu cyrsiau "Dysgu Cymraeg" i'r staff, a hefyd sesiynau ar ddiwylliant yr ardal.

Was the Gregg's employee actually commenting on the poor quality of the young lady's pronunciation of Cymraeg?