Been there, done that...
Posted on 12/04/2018 4:36:58 AM PST by real saxophonist
The King Soopers on 35th Avenue near Greeley West High School will no longer stock its Tide Pods near the colorful candy following recent concern.
Store management on Sunday removed an aisle end cap stocked with the bright, aromatic detergent packs and other laundry items that was connected to an aisle filled with popcorn, chocolate bars, M&M’s, Reese’s and other delicious goodies — which Tide Pods are not supposed to be.
Similar household products are a couple aisles away from the sweets.
Earlier this year the “Tide Pod challenge,” where teens filmed themselves biting into the plastic bubbles filled with toxic laundry detergents, caused national worry.
Kaylea Kesterson, a mother of two teenagers, saw the local display over the weekend and posted a photo of it on social media. She said some people were shocked at the Tide Pods’ proximity to candy, while others found humor in it.
Kesteron, whose son goes to Greeley West, did not.
“I think it’s sending a weird message,” she said. “Lot of high school kids go there during lunch and I think it’s a little irresponsible.”
After hearing of Kesterson’s concern, King Soopers moved the display.
"Our goal is to create an uplifting shopping experience and we take customer feedback very serious,” King Soopers spokesman Adam Williamson said in an email. “This was an isolated incident. We agree, these items shouldn't be placed where they were. We fixed it immediately. This has been shared with our team to prevent this from happening moving forward.”
The American Association of Poison Control Centers responded to 39 intentional cases of exposure among 13- to 19-year-olds in the first 15 days of 2018.
Next they'll remove the Pine Sol from the apple juice aisle. As if we can't read labels.
Let the Darwinism continue.
For those unfamiliar with King Soopers, it's the Kroger affiliate in Colorado, and probably a couple of other states.
A true marketing genius working at a candy company could make a killing were they to introduce a product that resembled Tide Pods but was in fact, candy.
Been there, done that...
Then there would be some idiots who would wonder why their laundry was still dirty after washing.......LOL!
“Uplifting experience” shopping for groceries?
That is beyond stupid.
Another snowflake is loose.
Now that environmentalists have forced the removal of phosphates from detergents, you know, the one chemical compound that actually cleaned stuff, it might be hard to tell the difference between the two.
I loved those when I was a kid.
Stupid to make poison look like candy.
“This candy tastes like soap. Give me another.”
#metoo...great candy.
Obviously, they have really stupid high school kids. That said, what store manager puts the laundry detergent next to the candy? Food goes on one aisle while household products go on another aisle. Maybe the King Soopers went through the same management training as my local HEB manager.
King Soopers is a really goofy name.
Can’t decide which tasted worse, the candy cigs or the real thing.
So is Piggly Wiggly. 8~)
Gummy vitamins are now in the shape of gummy bear candy. Vitamins also look like chocolate candy. Either they don’t contain enough vitamins to hurt a kid if he eats the whole bottle or never in the history of the world has a kid ever sneaked into the medicine cabinet.
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