The Illminster Tesco has two rather casual signs hanging outside it at the moment announcing product recalls. The first is for a range of mugs which may break when the come into contact with boiling water. The second is for a baby harness on which the clips may unintentionally come undone. Both of these design flaws seem amusingly fundamental and potentially catastrophic to the user.
For returning either product Tesco is very graciously giving a full refund (£0.49 for the mugs, and £5.68 for the baby harness). But the question that I really want to know the answer to is whether they will discontinue the products or simply repackage. After all, I imagine that to produce such bargain priced products they must be produced in rather large quantities. They can’t save all that money just by skipping the testing process can they?
I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out in store for “Coffee Mugs (product not for use with hot water)” and “Baby Harness (product not for use with real babies)” 
Tom B | 24-Jan-08 at 1:38 am | Permalink
Boring answer; whenever stuff is already instore and subjected to a withdrawal or so … it’s simply chucked into the skip and off it goes to landfill. That’s lots of things a day for lots of pointless reasons (wrong packaging / wrong contents / slightly off quality etc). Like at least 1 thing a day?
Boring answer over; go on fb and reply to the messages!