MultiTroll
04-07-2016, 12:46 PM
The unfortunately named British megastore B&M has found itself in the crapper after one of its products went viral for all the wrong reasons.
According to the Manchester Evening News (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/campaigner-wins-battle-over-bm-11115056), the retailer has removed a £3.99 bathroom scale from its sales floor following customer complaints that it promoted anorexic behavior. Manchester resident Rachel May Shevlin — a former sufferer of anorexia — was the first to post a photo on Facebook of the offending item, which read “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” below the weight meter.
“Would anyone like to join me in writing to B&M to tell them how lovely to see the phrase I said to my teenage/young adult self that also led to me calling myself a ‘fat, disgusting waste of oxygen’ often before self-harming just because I had dinner, sold in their shops ON FRICKIN SCALES so other impressionable young minds can suffer the same self hatred? Horrible, triggering,” Shevlin wrote in a post (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=789576974481316&set=a.132842896821397.22059.100002870626326&type=3&theater) that’s now been shared more than 2,300 times.
https://www.yahoo.com/style/pro-anorexia-scales-removed-from-shelves-following-173542193.html
According to the Manchester Evening News (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/campaigner-wins-battle-over-bm-11115056), the retailer has removed a £3.99 bathroom scale from its sales floor following customer complaints that it promoted anorexic behavior. Manchester resident Rachel May Shevlin — a former sufferer of anorexia — was the first to post a photo on Facebook of the offending item, which read “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” below the weight meter.
“Would anyone like to join me in writing to B&M to tell them how lovely to see the phrase I said to my teenage/young adult self that also led to me calling myself a ‘fat, disgusting waste of oxygen’ often before self-harming just because I had dinner, sold in their shops ON FRICKIN SCALES so other impressionable young minds can suffer the same self hatred? Horrible, triggering,” Shevlin wrote in a post (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=789576974481316&set=a.132842896821397.22059.100002870626326&type=3&theater) that’s now been shared more than 2,300 times.
https://www.yahoo.com/style/pro-anorexia-scales-removed-from-shelves-following-173542193.html