{"id":449727,"date":"2010-03-19T16:11:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003503"},"modified":"2010-03-19T16:06:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:06:26","slug":"walmart-owned-store-delivers-sex-lube-instead-of-kids-bubble-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/449727","title":{"rendered":"Walmart-Owned Store Delivers Sex Lube Instead Of Kids&#8217; Bubble Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/Durex-Play-Warming2-thumb-250x250-38382.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Not even a week after Walmart-owned British retail chain Asda <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/store-considering-name-change-for-fat-balls.html\" >decided that &#8220;Fat Balls&#8221; might be an inappropriate name for bird food<\/a>, they also managed to royally screw up an order for kids&#8217; bubble bath and sent a bottle of lube instead.<\/p>\n<p>Mike, a father of two young children, had ordered some Lucky Matey bubble bath online from Asda. The order was fulfilled and delivered by a local store. Lucky for everyone involved, Mike noticed the error right away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve no idea who could confuse sexual lubricant for children&#8217;s bubble bath,&#8221; he told reporters. &#8220;When they bring your order they give you a delivery list to check so that you can confirm the substitutes. When I saw what they&#8217;d done I was gobsmacked!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adds Mike, &#8220;I did have a laugh about it with the delivery guy who was quite young and seemed embarrassed about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rather than just &#8220;taking this seriously,&#8221; a rep for Asda was suprisingly candid: &#8220;We&#8217;ve messed up here. The substitution was clearly not appropriate and we apologise to the family for any upset caused. To avoid any further mix-ups we&#8217;ve changed the way both items are described on the booking form used by our store pickers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asda also sent along some free bubble bath as a make-good to Mike and his family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bournemouthecho.co.uk\/news\/5071092.Asda_delivers_sex_lubricant_instead_of_children___s_bubble_bath\/#\" >Asda delivers sex lubricant instead of children&#8217;s bubble bath<\/a> [Daily Echo]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not even a week after Walmart-owned British retail chain Asda decided that &#8220;Fat Balls&#8221; might be an inappropriate name for bird food, they also managed to royally screw up an order for kids&#8217; bubble bath and sent a bottle of lube instead. Mike, a father of two young children, had ordered some Lucky Matey bubble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}