To be really annoyed by M&S’s LittleShop?

[CraicMammy]

www.marksandspencer.com/c/food-to-order/little-shop

It’s such a waste of plastic and the cardboard shop costs £10!

No one needs this and it’s such a waste.

M&S say you can return the plastic toys in store to be recycled into playground toys, but that will ultimately end up in landfill presumably. And it assumes all items are returned for recycling, which with the best will in the world is overly optimistic.

You receive a collectible for each £20 spent, there are 25 items to collect. So you will need to spend at least £500 to get them all!

When the World is unable to safely dispose of the plastic we have created already, we don’t need more. Poor show M&S!!

Buy not by (and probably a whole load of other sp mistakes- it's late!)

People are determined to trash M&S.
There have been comments in newspapers and on line slating M&S and explaining the simple mistakes they are making with their business.
Hilarious really as most posters have different views. Plus every sales business in the country is having to compete against a non tax paying Amazon so is probably doomed to fail.
This toy thing looks like an attempt to boost their food sales, why not when every other supermarket and chain has gimmicks and offers.
And how it is acceptable for Lego to sell 9 billion bits of plastic A YEAR leaves me speechless. Obviously it is NOT all being reused 'as it lasts for years' or the stuff my DCs used 30 years ago would be being recycled now and there would be no need for 9 Billion more.

Is anyone actually surprised that M&S is so out of touch?

Seems to be their USP across virtually all departments and decisions.

I also buy a load of stuff, makeup, toiletries, (clothes, toys etc.) which I know are wasteful.

That’s a bit hypocritical, isn’t it? Surely you should, by your own logic, care about all of it and not buy any wasteful plastic at all or you’re a bit f*cking ridiculous?

Most people don’t agree with the masses of plastic wrap M&S use and a lot of people (like me) don’t buy it. But adding more unnecessary, easily avoidable plastic to a shop with an already huge plastic problem is the issue here. They are adding more, not reducing, in a time when most people are concerned about plastic use. And the plastic they’re adding is cheap, easily lost tat. Like Happy Meal toys, or toy magazines, it’s all shit. We can live without it.

To the PP complaining about Lego - where is the Lego your DC played with 30 years ago, did you bin it?

I don’t really want to be “whataboutery”, but people would have a much bigger environmental impact if they lobbied more reduction on single use plastics. There’s more single use, landfill destined plastic waste in the basket that earned enough points to get one of these toys.

I think it shows how out of touch M and S are.

Whatever happened to the M&S Plan A and reducing unnecessary plastic? If you are annoyed with M&S for running this plastic promotion please sign our petition [[http://chng.it/qxGNBJ7Z ]]

I'm surprised people say they're too small to play with- didn't you guys have Polly Pocket? And now there's Playmobil and Shopkins?!

We don't shop at M&S, but my kid would love and use stuff like this to kit out his Playmobil sets prison.

That’s a bit hypocritical, isn’t it? Surely you should, by your own logic, care about all of it and not buy any wasteful plastic at all or you’re a bit fcking ridiculous?*

Maybe read my post. I said I was far from perfect.

Also, yes, It would be very hypocritical of me to get my knickers in a twist over a M&S promotion (I don't).
That's my exact point.

Also, yes, It would be very hypocritical of me to get my knickers in a twist over a M&S promotion (I don't).
That's my exact point.

No, it’s hypocritical of you to recycle - why care about that one thing when you don’t care about extra plastic tat? Surely you, following your own logic, should care about all of it or none of it?

No, it’s hypocritical of you to recycle - why care about that one thing when you don’t care about extra plastic tat? Surely you, following your own logic, should care about all of it or none of it?

THAT is the EXACT point I was making MYSELF!!

Lego and Duplo are more durable than the small, easily lost collectibles - I wish they’d done a tie in with slyvannian families, I do think M&S is a classic, traditional brand and there is a ton of plastic with kids toys so they don’t deserve special opprobrium.

THAT is the EXACT point I was making MYSELF!!

Your point was that you consider yourself a hypocrite for recycling while not caring about plastic consumption?

newpapuaguinea I agree on focusing on the hugely successful food business and their use of single use plastic

Surely you, following your own logic, should care about all of it or none of it?
My last reply was in response to this.

This campaign is nothing when you consider the stuff that gets sent to landfill everyday by large companies. You would be absolutely frothing if you knew the amount the company I work for sends and none of it is bio-degradable. This is small fry.

Surely you, following your own logic, should care about all of it or none of it?
My last reply was in response to this.

That doesn’t make sense - you don’t agree with your own argument. You recycle but don’t care about plastic consumption. So are you a hypocrite for recycling? You don’t care about all of it, but you clearly care enough to recycle- isn’t that a bit hypocritical, following your own logic?

Pumper
OMG. Clearly you have
a) not read all of my posts and the context in which they were written
b) are interpreting them in your own random way.

Whichever it is, give it a rest. You don't understand what I have said and I CBA to explain.

Whichever it is, give it a rest. You don't understand what I have said and I CBA to explain.

I understand your argument, it’s just illogical. That’s why you can’t give me an explanation.

I understand your argument, it’s just illogical. That’s why you can’t give me an explanation.

How is my argument illogical?

I said that I recycle but still buy far too much plastic so am far from perfect.

I said that if you get your knickers in a twist because M&S are giving away plastic toys yet at the same time you are filling your trolly with a load of plastic wrapped food,, toys, makeup (or whatever else they sell) you are hypocritical.

I say that if you are going to rally against M&S for giving away small plastic items you need to make sure you are not, at the same time, filling your house with other small plastic items/toys e.g. Lego.

I don't know what there is not to understand.

I say that if you are going to rally against M&S for giving away small plastic items you need to make sure you are not, at the same time, filling your house with other small plastic items/toys e.g. Lego.

But that’s exactly what you do! You recycle while at the same time fill your house with more wasteful plastic. If everyone here is a hypocrite for not living a 100% eco-friendly life and yet still objecting to more plastic shit being released into the wild then so are you for recycling while not being 100% eco-friendly yourself.

That’s why your argument is illogical. Most people do the best they can, and doing the best they can while protesting against more plastic tat seems like a good way to go to me.

But that’s exactly what you do! You recycle while at the same time fill your house with more wasteful plastic.

Eh?!! I am not the OP!! I'm not getting my knickers in a twist re.Little shop, I am not rallying against M&S and all of their useless things! I'm not starting up petitions!

If I were to do any of the above I'd make damn sure my recycling and cut back on waste was a lot more thorough than it is now FIRST!

Eh?!! I am not the OP!! I'm not getting my knickers in a twist re.Little shop, I am not rallying against M&S and all of their useless things! I'm not starting up petitions!

You said you recycle while still buying toys and wasteful plastic - that was your post. You say that we’re hypocritical for not living a 100% eco-lifestyle while complaining about m&s.

My point is - you do the same. Why care about one thing (recycling) and not any other unnecessary waste? Why are you any less of a hypocrite for caring about one thing (recycling) while not being 100% eco-friendly yourself?

You can’t give me an answer to that, because it’s illogical. Why recycle, according to your own logic? If you’re not 100% eco-friendly, why bother?

You say that we’re hypocritical for not living a 100% eco-lifestyle while complaining about m&s.
My point is - you do the same. Why care about one thing (recycling) and not any other unnecessary waste?

I don't claim to be massively eco-friendly. I recycle/reuse what I can but am not fully committed.
If you claim to be fully committed to the eco-friendly lifestyle you can't just pick and choose what you find offensive and what you don't.