Racism or simple supply and demand?

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xoggoth replied

2 October 2015, 19:45
CUK is obviously racist because it has a white background

Absolutely! It should be orange and purple!
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FatLazyContractor replied

2 October 2015, 14:54
Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

Toys R Us faces race row after selling white doll family for more than 'ethnic' alternative | Daily Mail Online

.... or really just a keying error..

Any thoughts?

It is simple economics.

Cost of L'Oreal blonde hair colour is approximately £2.50.
Labour charges for dyeing the black dolls = £0.50. (Done by cheap immigrant labour)
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northernladuk replied

2 October 2015, 14:41
Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post

Why are you reading the daily fail?

I blame the link cloud. Wondered why it was second biggest next Monday links and ended up on their site Sorry.
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tomtomagain replied

2 October 2015, 13:01
Shops always manipulate the price of any goods so they can claim that they have reduced the price later on.

In this example they could have upped the price of the "White" dolls temporarily simply so that they could later drop the prices back to £6.99 enabling them to claim "50% off".
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BrilloPad replied

2 October 2015, 12:52
Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

Any thoughts?

Why are you reading the daily fail?
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vetran replied

2 October 2015, 12:45
CUK is obviously racist because it has a white background, I demand a background that celebrates people of colour! I also intend to sue as I feel offended by this heinous slur on our ethnic diversity £3m should do it!

Ditto for Milk & Snow.

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.
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NibblyPig replied

2 October 2015, 12:34
Ridiculous. They're hardly going to be using vindictive pricing. It's only racist if they wield the price as a weapon, for example charging 50 times the price to make a statement.

Plus their pricing probably works on units sold, so if more people buy white the mighty computer might go bink and lower the price of alternatives to shift stock.

People get offended these days because they think they should, even though they don't understand why. I bet those people couldn't even articulate why it was offensive. They should be called out as idiots.
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northernladuk started a topic Racism or simple supply and demand?

2 October 2015, 12:02
Racism or simple supply and demand?

Toys R Us faces race row after selling white doll family for more than 'ethnic' alternative | Daily Mail Online

.... or really just a keying error..

Any thoughts?
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