If you’re having girl problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but the bitch ain’t one, hit me!!!
What the FUCK!!!
Not a typo
Do you ever see something that you think, hmmmmmmm, that just cannot be right, and carry on walking the direction you were going in, only to then stop dead and turn around to view it again just to make sure you saw it right or you find yourself doing a lap of whatever space you are in just to return at the point where you thought ‘hmmmmmmmm, that just can’t be right’???
Well that was the situation I was greeted with this morning, I chose the second option, with a quick lap around the town centre to get back to my thought provoking vision… LUSH shopfront. It would appear that LUSH, as well as making rather overpriced cosmetics, although it appears they can get away with this as they do state that they are ‘handmade’, have become somewhat of a political influential power on the face of this planet, who’d have thunk it???
Am I the only one who is disturbed by this?? Or the only one to find this remotely inappropriate??
In 2012 they did a similar shop front display in a fight against animal testing, asking their customers to sign their shop window as a petition for the banning of animal testing in cosmetics, as well as performances by artists in the windows of their flagship stores. Again, I find it very strange that suddenly they have to have such a political opinion on a subject that essentially their business was born upon. There would be no LUSH if they hadn’t learnt from previous animal testing research, the whole cosmetics industry was born on early tests to see what was safe for humans and what wasn’t. I get that it isn’t the practice now and I am not saying I am PRO animal testing, I am saying however that animal testing is part of the cosmetic industry history, LUSH has skimmed over this key point and jumped on board a train that is running rather behind schedule, this country has not given out an animal testing licence since 1998, which I know doesn’t mean that it has completely been eradicated but it does mean that this country has done what it can to reduce the legal testing on animals for cosmetic purposes. And then it is forgotten… a month after the window petition started, the chalk marker was wiped from the windows, the POS stands were thrown away and the staff carried on with their minimum wage job, selling unreasonably priced soap.
Really, was this just a publicity stunt for advertising and promotion??
Anywhoooooo
Back to the present day protest…
LUSH appears to want us to jump on board with their campaign to stop drone attacks… I fear this must affect them in some way, I just don’t appear to know in what way!!!
Oh yeah, that’s right, it affects them the same way it did for their animal testing campaign, it allows them to gain Publicity, Promotion, Advertising and appear to be a caring business. They have a page on their website dedicated to this cause, explaining about their collaboration with the Human Rights charity Reprieve and then shamelessly selling products based around drone attacks. I just don’t get it. Maybe I’m not meant to, maybe I’m not seeing the point and I am just being a grumpy, unsupportive human. But I fail to see how anyone stepping in to LUSH to specifically buy one of these charity products will not be approached by a sales advisor and convinced to purchase other LUSH products. For me it seems a shameless act of publicity.
Once the promotion has run its course, just like the Animal Testing, apart from a trace on its website, it will be gone, Sale assistants will clear the windows, POS will be destroyed and profits will be up.
That is all…
