tall street shops sell pink razors for more than blue ones because they can. We need a revolution to cease such discrimination – and ending our complicity is the first stepWhen Tesco can advertise cucumbers as “ideal for Valentine’s Day” it is clear that there is no floor to the tawdriness of sales techniques.Yesterday at Westminster,MPs attacked the sexist pricing scandal that emerged a couple of weeks ago when – following a similar survey in New York authorities – the Times established that, among other tall street rip-offs, and Boots was selling pink razors for 80p more than blue ones. Boots has now been shamed into equalising the price for razors – and for eye cream,which apparently cost £2.70 more for the women’s version than the men’s identical formula.
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Source: theguardian.com