"An online campaign by a group of mothers has forced Woolworths to withdraw a line of bedroom furniture for girls called 'Lolita'.Staff, it appears, had no idea of the sexual connotations of the name.Woolworths initially appeared baffled and refused to withdraw the product, saying in addition to the family market it also had to "respond to customer demands and follow current trends". After a quick investigation they changed their minds.A spokesman for the company said: "What seems to have happened is the staff who run the website had never heard of Lolita, and to be honest no one else here had either. We had to look it up on Wikipedia. But we certainly know who she is now." [from the ever so wonderful Daily Mail]
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That's incredible- What a story. Strangely believable somehow, however, that nobody who works at any level of power for Woolworths would be educated enough to have heard of the book, or even the film..
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