Read more about the article Christmas Bad News With Sales Slump For Iconic Toy Playmobil As Kids Move Online
Photo shows Playmobil Santa Claus, undated. The company made a loss for the first time in their history. (PLAYMOBIL/Newsflash)

Christmas Bad News With Sales Slump For Iconic Toy Playmobil As Kids Move Online

Iconic toy firm Playmobil has revealed its first sales fall in its 49 year history and blamed it on children abandoning traditional play for video games. Photo shows Playmobil Santa Claus, undated. The company made a loss for the first time in their history. (PLAYMOBIL/Newsflash) The German company's classic toys…

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Read more about the article IT WON’T WASH: Fury Over Sales Stunt To Put Milk Tea In Detergent Bottles
Milk tea pulled from Chinese markets as packaging resembles laundry detergent. (AsiaWire)

IT WON’T WASH: Fury Over Sales Stunt To Put Milk Tea In Detergent Bottles

A marketing stunt to sell milk tea in laundry detergent-style bottles has backfired after furious customers demanded its withdrawal. Parents in China feared that the striking resemblance between the drink and detergent bottles meant that children might swig the wrong one. To add to the confusion, all the writing on…

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Read more about the article Man In China Pours Icy Water Over Workers Heads, Most Of Them Female, To Punish Them For Missing Sales Targets
Workers who did not complete task punished with water over head in Yichang, China. (850863440/AsiaWire)

Man In China Pours Icy Water Over Workers Heads, Most Of Them Female, To Punish Them For Missing Sales Targets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf2JZUVFvUQ These images show a man pouring reportedly icy water over his mainly female workers' heads to punish them after they apparently missed their sales targets. The incident reportedly took place in the city of Yichang, which is located in Hubei Province, in central China, on Monday, 28th February. In…

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Read more about the article Woke Ben And Jerrys To Stop Sales In Israeli Occupied Territories As It Is Inconsistent With Their Values
Ben & Jerry’s will end sales of our ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. (Newsflash)

Woke Ben And Jerrys To Stop Sales In Israeli Occupied Territories As It Is Inconsistent With Their Values

Woke ice-cream giants Ben & Jerry’s have vowed to stop sales in Occupied Palestinian Territory because it is “inconsistent with our values”. Based in Vermont in the US, Ben & Jerry’s said on Monday that they were going to stop the sale of their products in east Jerusalem and Israeli-occupied…

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Read more about the article Author Threatens Fans With Suicide If Book Sells Badly
Writer blackmails netizens to buy his books by suicide. Alexander Polyarny. (@a.polarniu/Newsflash)

Author Threatens Fans With Suicide If Book Sells Badly

A post from a young Russian writer who insinuated he would kill himself if his fans did not buy his new book caused so much backlash, he has been ditched by his publishing house. The 26-year-old author, Alexander Polyarny, is from the city of Murmansk in the north-western Russian region…

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