New one-shot story: Dead Giveaways
Added 2019-07-27 05:27:37 +0000 UTCAnd this one is Forever 21's fault.
If you didn't hear about that: the chain apparently has an interesting habit. If you order something which is being delivered by mail, they'll toss in a freebie. Everyone gets the same thing, which is usually an item which they're being paid to distribute. Well, a few days ago, that item was sample-size diet bars. And everyone who ordered got some.
The problem? That included the plus-size orders, and so a number of people felt they were being weight-shamed.
Twitter went nuclear for a few hours. The chain carefully explained the 'everyone' thing and may have offered to be more careful next time. And the Internet moved on to the next source of outrage.
Problems with free samples, huh?
Cue 8400 words of Mr. Rich.
The Barnyard Bargains semi-saga continues. And as long as somewhere, someone is making a horrible business mistake, it may never end...
Comments
If they hadn't hidden it and stated "Here as a bonus all customers for '----' time get a free '----' with every order." it never would have been a problem. Such is life.
Steve Lynx (Boulder)
2019-07-27 14:40:58 +0000 UTCIn case this didn't make sense, a quote from the vocabulary site. "Discreet means on the down low, under the radar, careful, but discrete means individual or detached. They come from the same ultimate source, the Latin discrΔtus, for separated or distinct, but discreet has taken its own advice and quietly gone its separate way."
Steve Lynx (Boulder)
2019-07-27 14:37:27 +0000 UTC"discreetly", although I guess if they're one at a time they may also be "discretely".
Andrew Pam
2019-07-27 05:29:11 +0000 UTC
