Nipped into HB earlier as wanted to see if cherry Twizzlers were back in, as been only hateful strawberry ones there for weeks..the bastards! But yes, they were :-)
Halloween section all out in the first aisle . I love most things spooky/gory/horror unless real life.. was surprised to see a pile of books in the centre of all the skulls and pumpkins... one title on Harold Shipman and another on the Moors Murderers.
AIBU to think it does piss a bit, on the victims and their families? After all, it's real life horror amongst all the fun tat, the party and Trick or Treat stuff.
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were child torturers and murderers. Would the store for example have placed a book on, say, Baby P or James Bulger, in the same section?
The moors murders were so long ago but their familes are still out there. As for Shipman, that's incredibly recent compared to the Moors
I would say ok in a book section but not with the Halloween. Why? Is there a selling suggestion that a child would go T or T with a book on the Moors Murderers under her arm? Or on the coffee table of a Halloween party?
Expect I'll be called oldfashioned and boring now but just seems a bit odd to me
If you were say the daughter of a Shipman victim, would you want to walk into a HB store and see that in amongst the plastic tat sold as a party accessory?
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