Hot on the heels of that last story about companies employing retards and allowing them to make business-shaping decisions, Sainsbury’s appears to have done it again with one of its Valentine’s Day crapola range items. They’re called Hugging Bear Mugs, and they come in pairs. You will note that – if you make the obvious connection based on visual appearance – they are both male.
Assuming that it’s true (a lot of fake news around now that fake news is in the news), you have to wonder any of the following:
- who would be stupid enough to buy one?
- who would be stupid enough to THINK someone would be stupid enough to buy one, and that they should become a stock item?
- who would be stupid enough to think you could sell enough of them to make it a profitable line?
- who would be stupid enough not to see the overt visual reference to male genitalia?
- who would be stupid enough not to realise any of the above at any stage of the buying process, and allow the product to end up as an SKU?
- Who would be stupid enough to recruit – and to continue to employ – people who made or failed to spot these crass decisions beforehand?
Apart from a few students – and admittedly, probably a few more than would have before, now that this has been in the media – you’d need the mentality of a Brexit voter and no class whatsoever to buy one.
What’s more, I would suggest that having it on display – in full view of children – is a breach of the UK’s obscenity laws.
It’s obvious what the mugs are supposed to be showing, and the covert message they are obviously trying to convey. It is unbelievable that Sainsbury’s could have got so many decisions so wrong in order for these to go on open sale.