Little shop collectables

[TheArtfulDogger]

I keep on seeing adverts for a high street shop giving away minature food item collectables for children when ?20 is spent

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/marketing/mands-giving-away-plastic-toy-collectables-in-little-shop-promotion/595425.article

Is it morally right ?

In my honest opinion it creates two levels of pester power for parents

1 to shop there to get the collectables

2 as most of the collectables are products from the store, kids will pester their parents to buy the real thing

Some are ready meals

In this age of obesity and parents feeding children meals high in fat, sugar and salt due to time restrictions, is it good to push the products via collectables on children?

Would it not be a better option if all of the collectables were fresh fruit and veg with some child friendly recipes to encourage children to eat healthily ?

What's your thoughts parents (and non patents ) of East Dulwich ?

[siousxiesue]

And the 'collectables' are made from plastic, cos that's what we need in the world right now apparently.

[i*Rate]

It's just a sales gimmick like the Lego cards from Sainsbury's - get's children involved and wanting mum, dad and granny and grandad to spend money to get toys!

Totally agree about more plastic too and some of the collectables are ready meals - not good, not good at all!

Happy shopping!

[TheArtfulDogger]

The Lego cards weren't too bad as they didn't encourage unhealthy eating nor were they made of plastic 🤔

[DulwichGlobetrotter]

There?s nothing wrong with the promotion. It?s fun. My little boy really enjoys collecting them. We shop at M&S a lot and it?s a nice wee promotion (even if it attracts criticism from killjoys!)

[Frankito]

And if the product from the store happens to be broccoli or a turnip then it?s win-win for all.. ;0)

heArtfulDogger Wrote:

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> I keep on seeing adverts for a high street shop

> giving away minature food item collectables for

> children when ?20 is spent

>

> https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/marketing/mands-giving

> -away-plastic-toy-collectables-in-little-shop-prom

> otion/595425.article

>

> Is it morally right ?

>

> In my honest opinion it creates two levels of

> pester power for parents

> 1 to shop there to get the collectables

> 2 as most of the collectables are products from

> the store, kids will pester their parents to buy

> the real thing

>

> Some are ready meals

>

> In this age of obesity and parents feeding

> children meals high in fat, sugar and salt due to

> time restrictions, is it good to push the products

> via collectables on children?

>

> Would it not be a better option if all of the

> collectables were fresh fruit and veg with some

> child friendly recipes to encourage children to

> eat healthily ?

>

> What's your thoughts parents (and non patents ) of

> East Dulwich ?

[KalamityKel]

I'm struggling to understand why this particular promotion is something people actually want? I mean really?

Of course I get it that people want to feel rewarded for their custom but surely there are better incentives, like maybe the real thing?

What do you do with these after youve collected 100 of the same item? Or even just one?

[Spartacus]

I suspect if you collect 100 of the steak pie toys you can claim that you "had all the pies"

Ridiculous promotion, didn't Marks see the whole plastic planet issue. Guess they don't really care about their environmental friendly footprint

Let's hope that they get the same treatment that McDonald's did when they produced plastic toys and people send them back to head office for recycling

[KalamityKel]

Spartacus Wrote:

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> Ridiculous promotion, didn't Marks see the whole

> plastic planet issue. Guess they don't really

> care about their environmental friendly footprint

>

Pfft you'd be a fool to think they care about anything. Typical big company that says lots and does little.

[Passiflora]

I went in the Walworth Road branch a couple of weeks ago to buy a bra and knickers and ended up coming out with a little plastic 3cm x 3cm chicken mushroom and rice soup plonked in my bag! Quite a dangerous bit of plastic really.