In my local Sainsbury's...

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Small shop but trying to cram EVERYTHING in. Now selling children's clothes as well as women's.

Hadn't really been something I'd processed till today when I though "I'll just pick up some socks for DH."

I'd picked up socks for the baby. Myself. My five year old. But men's socks? Nada.

None in Boots either, buckets of ladies' socks, none for men.

Oh of course only women shop for groceries and nappies. Silly me.

In retail the ratio of women’s clothes sold to men’s is around six fold so it’s still more profitable to have no men’s clothes but a wider women’s offer
Kids sell half women’s volume
It’s busivess profitability
And everyone can shop online too...
There are many issues to get het up about, not this

Of course there's more important issues.

It's both a reflection of a gender stereotypical society and also assumptive of those gender stereotypes.

I've never bought my dh socks before and just found it odd.