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[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (18 children)

I wonder if there are some good practical reasons though. Like if they were to do this with real towels it could potentially be heavy and dangerous. If a bunch of towels did fall, it would be significant work to put them back, and now they'd be dirty from the floor the public has been walking all over.

Also, the fluorescent lights fade stuff pretty quick so if they didn't cycle inventory fast enough you'd see fading, and they'd fade at different rates due to being exposed for different lengths of time and look weird.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago (14 children)

but whats the point of pretending to be a dangerously overstocked warehouse? they would have done better with just a gigantic poster of ferris bueller in a towel.

[–] alectrocute@lemmy.ml 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It demonstrates they have stacks and stacks of towels and that they are to be fully trusted as your local towel authority.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

Honestly, it did kind of psychologically have that effect. I remember thinking "Damn, these people have a shit load of towels. People must be buying a lot more towels than I do. Maybe I should be replacing my towels more often."

[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

Fuck towel authoritarians!

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