Lakeland is a store that mixes generally useful and decent quality household products (plates, etc), with expensive and/or overspecialised stuff only useful to the very rich (chandelier cleaner?) or the owners of small restaurants (cooking equipment with non-domestic capacities). This product is one of those overspecialised ones - it's a pink plastic pig, with a magnet (to attach to a fridge), a motion sensor, and an alarm. It makes a noise if the fridge door is opened.
The sales pitch is that it's great for securing fridges against theft. I am very uncertain exactly how many people have:
- A fridge that their food regularly gets stolen from
- ...that they are close enough to at the time of the theft to hear a novelty pig
- ...and close enough to get to the fridge before the thieves have vanished, taking the pig with them so that it isn't there next time
- ...and can't just see the fridge
"Fortunately", at the end of the sales pitch, the item's real use becomes clear:
And after the feasts of the season, it might help reluctant dieters too!
Yes, it's a cheap and easy way to encourage an unhealthy relationship with food in yourself and others! Open the fridge and get automatically called a pig, through the miracles of technology.
