Shopping yesterday we needed some shower gel (for ourselves,
not refugees) and were attracted to an aisle end display of “3 for the price of
two" packs. Now we all know these placements are not random and probably not
economical, but Val liked the idea of grapefruit gel – after all we have no
objection to apple or orange or lemon varieties.
On examining the pack Malc noticed that the third container
was “hot chocolate” and other “flavours” included “spice bread” and "Danish
pastry" – pain au raisin. We decided to forego the offer and chose “vanilla and
mandarin” from a different range.
Of course all these perfumes are just mixtures of artificial
chemicals and natural products are available, but it reminded us of one of
those marketing exercises in “The Apprentice” when they come up with totally
inappropriate products. Even designed to make recalcitrant children shower, we
don't think this will sell and someone in product development should have been fired.
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