Mum To Be?
Apr. 7th, 2010 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debithaSo Sainsburys would have you believe.
I've had some fatigue issues lately, so had some blood tests done. Some of the results were borderline, and the doctor recommended folic acid. Sainsburys a) apparently don't believe that anyone but a pregnant women could possibly be taking folic acid, and b) feel the need to announce it to the entire world by platering the container with a bright yellow label that proclaims 'MUM TO BE' with 'Folic Acid' in much smaller print underneath.
I am epically annoyed by this in a whole range of ways. First of all, I was not looking for 'Mum to be', I was lookig for folic acid. Funnily enough, I couldn't find it, and ended up having to ask at the counter.
Secondly, people who are not pregnant women take this vitamin, and would like the supermarket to fuck off with its presumptions.
Thirdly, I feel very strongly that it is not the place of the fucking supermarket to announce it to the world if one is pregnant. Anyone looking in the cart knows, (or worse yet, where annoyance two applies, think they know. Anyone with whom one shares a bathroom, or even anyone with nosy visitors risks unwanted and/or poorly timed revelations. IT IS NOT YOUR BUSINESS, SAINSBURYS. STAY OUT OF IT.
I'm not pregnant, I'm borderline anaemic. I really don't need my supplement packaging passing comment and encouraging others to do so, thank you.
I've had some fatigue issues lately, so had some blood tests done. Some of the results were borderline, and the doctor recommended folic acid. Sainsburys a) apparently don't believe that anyone but a pregnant women could possibly be taking folic acid, and b) feel the need to announce it to the entire world by platering the container with a bright yellow label that proclaims 'MUM TO BE' with 'Folic Acid' in much smaller print underneath.
I am epically annoyed by this in a whole range of ways. First of all, I was not looking for 'Mum to be', I was lookig for folic acid. Funnily enough, I couldn't find it, and ended up having to ask at the counter.
Secondly, people who are not pregnant women take this vitamin, and would like the supermarket to fuck off with its presumptions.
Thirdly, I feel very strongly that it is not the place of the fucking supermarket to announce it to the world if one is pregnant. Anyone looking in the cart knows, (or worse yet, where annoyance two applies, think they know. Anyone with whom one shares a bathroom, or even anyone with nosy visitors risks unwanted and/or poorly timed revelations. IT IS NOT YOUR BUSINESS, SAINSBURYS. STAY OUT OF IT.
I'm not pregnant, I'm borderline anaemic. I really don't need my supplement packaging passing comment and encouraging others to do so, thank you.
