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Retail Randoms
by 55 North
NICE ONE ASDA
The Week In Retail was happy enough to pile into Asda when a Which? survey uncovered some of its more dodgy home delivery substitutions recently.
If you think sausage rolls instead of toilet rolls and Cadbury Creme Eggs substituted with “bog-standard hen’s eggs” you’ll get the picture. Just not what you ordered.
So, in the interests of balanced journalism, we’re please to report the mult has got something right.
Specifically, it’s renamed the ‘feminine hygiene’ aisle to ‘period products’.
Big deal, you say. Well, it is actually, as period charity Binti International explained in a tweet praising the move: “Thank you and a massive shout out to @asda for leading the way in changing the language around menstruation. Sanitary hygiene or feminine hygiene suggests menstrual products are for
something dirty. Time to change the language #SmashShame.”
Commenting on the new signs, an Asda spokesperson said: “We’re proud to have made this change in our stores to better reflect shoppers’ attitudes around period products. These items are an essential part of the shop for so many, so this change in wording helps us move towards removing the stigma from periods and period products.”
So well done Asda. Period.
COME PIE WITH ME
It’s National Pie Week, so what better way to celebrate than with yet another pointless article revealing Britain’s favourite pie?
The much chewed-over topic is not without controversy for several reasons, however. Well, two.
Firstly, it depends on who you ask. According to a Hellofresh analysis of internet searches, the answer is good old Shepherd’s pie.
However, if you don’t trust the judgement of a well-known meal kit provider then you can turn to SlotsUp, a web-based reviewer of online casino games that has inexplicably published its own pie league table.
We can’t wait for a retaliatory Hellofresh list of Britain’s favourite virtual fruit machines.
Anyway, according to SlotsUp, Cottage pie tops the charts.
However, it appears that neither Cottage or Shepherd’s are even real pies. A proper pie, according to British Pie Awards chairman Matthew O’Callaghan, “is a whole dish encased in pastry”. So there.
And if you aren’t entirely bored with the subject yet, you’ll be pleased to learn that next Monday is Pi Day – as in circumference-divided-by-diameter pi. Why next Monday? It’s 14 March, or 14/3. Or 3.14, as they say in America. Who said maths was boring?
