Lush Edinburgh say they wouldn't serve anyone in "woman" T-shirt

[Alicethroughtheblackmirror]

Apparently some stickers found their way onto the Lush Edinburgh storefront causing horror and consternation on Princes St this morning. They are too awful to be shared, obviously, but clearly they carried some message of hateful bigotry - or biological fact as it used to be known.

Anyway, staff on the thread are letting it be known that anyone wearing a T-shirt carrying the dictionary definition of a woman would not be served - haven't seen a comment on what would happen if it said 'I ❤️ JKR'. Not sure how legal that is.

www.facebook.com/116815671689234/posts/3431297510241017/

@Roseburn

I took a deep breath ( to try and avoid the fumes) and entered Lush last Christmas looking for bathbombs for presents, trying to find ones without glitter, but was struggling . ( who wants to get out of the bath looking like a caked Christmas Card?) I asked the sales assistant to point me in the direction of the non-glitter ones and she was bewildered - 'oh but glitter is very popular.'

I'll bet.

@GrimDamnFanjo

Trotted past the Manchester Arndale store today to see a big poster in the window - something about what Lush don't allow - racism and transphobia.

But they're perfectly happy with misogyny, the virtue signalling, thrush inducing numpties.

Does anyone remember Hilda Ogden? “Woman. Stan. Woman”. They wouldn’t mess with her...Although She wouldn’t be caught dead in a Lush.

@Alicethroughtheblackmirror

Ugh. I hope not , the last thing we need is more of that toxic narcissism thrown in accelerant on the fire

I've boycotted them since they supported the hunt saboteurs association, not because I'm pro fox hunting but because HSA are perfectly happy to injure horses involved in the hunt. All animals are apparently not equal.

@NiceGerbil

Re the police/ hunt sabs/ trans things

Why are they taking stances on highly contraversial political and social issues which are unrelated to their product?

Ok hunt sabs maybe isn't but it's a very contraversial area and links into a whole load of other deep stuff, how you feel about govt, society, the police, etc etc.

Posts on here on these things would run into a thousand posts and max out. They are multifaceted and really need careful navigation. They are aspects of a whole load of other really important deep questions like, do you trust the 'authorities'? Etc etc. I won't go on.

They aren't well served on Twitter.

Why the fuck are they doing one sign in a window in a soap shop?

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My guess is that the owners know their brand is trusted and used by young people who are still impressionable. And they will connect those messages with 'good'.

So actually, whether you agree with whatever they say or not. It's propoganda aimed at the young.

Just thought of that and it's not great, is it.

Named main campaigners in one of the undercover opposition groups:

campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2014/10/25/cops-public-meeting/

See the bottom one. He addressed a conference of Lush managers about how rapey undercovers were (can't find the video at the moment).

Slightly unfortunate choice of spokesman - his employer issued a statement back in 2018 that they had parted company with him due to multiple allegations of rape/sexual assault, amongst other things. All of which they (and Lush, and his 'comrades ' at COPS/allies in PSOL) had known about for years.

Sorry, slight tangent as to why I have hated lush for years.

I just don't know why a soap company would want to wade in on such contentious debates just to sell a bit more soap. It sounds like the soap isn't good enough to sell itself, quite frankly.

@Thisismytimetoshine

I can't think how many male customers want their sparkly shite, so as a marketing strategy it's fundamentally flawed.

I'm guessing the only time Lush is full of male customers is once a year when they encourage staff to work naked?

I got asked to go into Lush a few years ago by DSD.

Frankly I couldn't wait to get out. The smell was overwhelming and the staff pushy rather than helpful in a way that was obviously "trained" (as I was waiting for DSD I was approached by multiple staff asking if I needed help as guise into pressing me to sample a product).

All I could think was you must be pretty desperate or "motivated" to work there.

My assumption is now the latter in so far their virtue signalling is possibly not actually so much about the consumer but in attracting woke staff who will put up with working in both a way and in conditions that others would not because they by association are "virtuous".

@highame for The Daily Uterus Award

I’m glad you got likes, even if the post is now deleted.

And for telling us your name.

I've no idea how much this "journalist" was paid for this Independent article but I hazard a guess it was too much for cutting and pasting. What was the point? Where are the journalists who are asking "what did the sticker say and was it actually transphobic?"

@MrsJamin

I've no idea how much this "journalist" was paid for this Independent article but I hazard a guess it was too much for cutting and pasting. What was the point? Where are the journalists who are asking "what did the sticker say and was it actually transphobic?"

God yeah @MrsJamin what a pathetic piece of writing. Waste of a page. No point to it whatsoever. Just Wish it was really bad publicity for LUSH but not sure it is, to most.

Did you see the sidebar article - bookshop donates to trans charity everytine it seels a JKR book?

I despair!

@CuriousaboutSamphire

Did you see the sidebar article - bookshop donates to trans charity everytine it seels a JKR book?

I despair!

Surely the truly moral action for them would be to refuse to stock any of her books?

Or would they worry about going out of business if they did that?

at least the first comment comes up with a sensible response

Did it say how much they donate to charity?

Is it the profit?

@Roseburn

I took a deep breath ( to try and avoid the fumes) and entered Lush last Christmas looking for bathbombs for presents, trying to find ones without glitter, but was struggling . ( who wants to get out of the bath looking like a caked Christmas Card?) I asked the sales assistant to point me in the direction of the non-glitter ones and she was bewildered - 'oh but glitter is very popular.'

I'll bet.

This reminds me of when I saw Ross Noble live, he said his wife used glittery bath bombs then fell asleep on the bed afterwards and she looked like “someone had stabbed a pixie”. 😄

its so rubbish I've just shared it to my facebook page... with the picture of teh actual sticker and a link to a blog about how appaulingly the staff at the shop were treated by and ex staff member...

@womanaf

I’m imagining going to lush, picking up 83 sparkly thrush balls, letting them run it all through the till before producing my I❤️JKR tote to carry it away in and watching cashier have an attack of the vapours.

Ideally I’d be able to shoulder in some kind of Real Life variation on the Pretty Woman gif that’s all over Twitter too. ‘You work on commission. Big mistake.’

I LOVE this! I had one of those Women totes arrive the other day!

Wish I'd known about the packaging/naked apart from apron and kissing things, that's awful, I would have blown a fuse at them!

SpiralHecate :I'm guessing the only time Lush is full of male customers is once a year when they encourage staff to work naked?

What day is that?

Asking for a friend.

If anyone goes there because their young kids love it (mine does) I found bathsprudels which my son loves. They are hand made in SA. You get a little ticket inside from the women who make them (it’s always been women so far when we have bought them)
www.tickety-boo.co.uk/acatalog/6-Pack-Sprudel-Bath-Bombs-7391.html

Goes to Lush and wants to boycott I mean

this image was posted on the now deleted post on the Edinburgh Lush shop facebook page as an image of the awful transphobic sticker. Is the person who posted it on Mumsnet? if so can you missage me? thanks

sorry this pic