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Friday, May 8, 2009
Company admits it ‘boobed,’ busty women declare bra victory
Britain’s largest clothing retailer has kneed to the big bust community.
Mark & Spencer has ended its policy of charging a 2 pound ($3) surcharge for size DD and larger bra.
The retailer on Friday, May 8, ran full page ads in several major British newspapers apologizing for the what has become know as the ‘boob penalty.’
The “We Boobed” ad featured a large breasted woman in a green bra. The company apologized for its mistake and offered a 25 percent reduction in all bras of all sizes for the next two weeks.
“It’s true our fantastic quality larger bras cost more money to make, and we felt it was right to reflect this in the prices we charged. Well, we were wrong, so as of Saturday 9 May, the storm in a D cup is over,” the ad reads.
More than 15,000 women gave their names to the Facebook.com campaign Busts 4 Justice.
“Busty ladies, and anyone else with a vested interest in busty ladies, in fact anyone with a vested interest in simple justice, join forces to end this blatant discrimination. We need your, er, support,” the Facebook pages reads.
The group declared victory Friday.
“They didn’t want a lot of big-breasted women storming their meeting,” 19-year-old Becky Mount, a co-founder of the Busts 4 Justice, told the Associated Press. “I think they realized they were dealing with a much bigger force than they thought originally, and that we weren’t going to go away.”
The new policy brings M&S into line with other major retailers in Britain.
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TweetKFC offers grill chicken rain checks, apologies to customers
Some free chicken lovers (at least for now) are out of cluck.
In a new message posted on its website and on Youtube.com, Kentucky Fried Chicken President Roger Eaton apologies that not every “Oprah Winfrey Show Kentucky Grilled Chicken Two-piece Meal Coupon” downloaded earlier this week can be honored immediately.
“We had lines out the door. Everyone wants to get the great taste of our new product so we can’t redeem your free coupon at this time,” he said. “We expected an enormous response, but we never expected anything like this.”
Eaton said Kentucky Fried Chicken will offer customers with the coupons a rain checks.
Here are the instruction for the rain check on KFC’s website:
Complete the form, attach your original coupon , and give it to the KFC restaurant manager or postmark per the form’s instructions, by May 19, 2009, and we’ll send you a rain check for your free Kentucky Grilled Chicken meal at a later date, plus a free Pepsi with our compliments. Your participating KFC restaurant will provide you with the form you need.
Please note that the redemption periods of the rain checks will vary. All other terms and conditions of the original free Kentucky Grilled Chicken coupon will apply. Kentucky Fried Chicken earlier this week teamed with Oprah to deliver coupons for free samples of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s new Kentucky Grilled Chicken the masses at participating locations.
The “Oprah Winfrey Show Kentucky Grilled Chicken Two-piece Meal Coupon” was available for download Tuesday and Wednesday, May 5 and 6.
See prior Seen and Overheard post here
The coupon had been redeemable at participating KFC locations through May 19, excluding Sunday, May 10.
The Louisville chain’s grilled chicken website was overwhelmed by downloads, and its stores ran out of free chicken.
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