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Real Life in The Body Shop

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | feature author Monday December 19, 2005 19:48author by Anonymous Report this post to the editors

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Having worked in a Bodyshop in Dublin for almost 5 weeks during the year, I was disgusted and appalled at how they treat their staff and mislead the public into thinking that they are environmentally friendly, their products not tested on animals and are for fair trade. Working there was a real eye-opener.

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Having worked in a Bodyshop in Dublin for almost 5 weeks during the year, I was disgusted and appalled at how they treat their staff and mislead the public into thinking that they are environmentally friendly, their products not tested on animals and are for fair trade. Working there was a real eye-opener.

The head office would mentally harrass my manager if the UPT was not at least an average of 2 per day. UPT stands for units per transaction and was the number of items sold per customer. Therefore staff were continuously pressurised into selling at least two items per customer. This would require you to hassle people coming into the shop into buying products they probably didnt even need.

If you go into any Bodyshop, you will notice that the layout of the shop is so that accessories will be on a shelf below the main products so as to help in selling. One thing that really disgusted me was that at the tills, 'Make Poverty History' bracelets were sold, and if a person came to the till with only one item, we had to encourage them to buy a bracelet too. This wasn't in the name of helping people in poverty (although I personally don't agree with the Make Poverty History campaign), but was to increase the UPT average. If on a day the UPT was well over 2 staff would be allowed take a product at a certain price home. These incentives were used to manipulate staff into selling as much as possible.

At the beginning of everyday there would be a UPT target set for staff to meet, sometimes 2 or 2.1 or 2.2. No one ever seemed to question why head office were pressurising us into raising the UPT, but it obviously was to increase profit. If other branches had a high UPT, this would add even more pressure onto us to raise our UPT. So it was all about competition and selling as much as possible.

Another fact I found out was that there used to be a label on Bodyshop products saying 'not tested on animals', but now if you check out any product it will say 'Against animal testing' which I believe is the Bodyshop trying to cover itself, because it has been found that some of the ingredients in their products have been tested on animals, although not directly by the Bodyshop.

If you go into the Bodyshop you will see signs on the walls with words such as Fair Trade, Human Rights, Activism, but only a small number of ingredients of their products are actually bought through fair trade. Its also very vague how much the Bodyshop is paying these farmers from Third World countries for their ingredients. And if the Bodyshop is so much into human rights, why do they violate the rights of their workers in Ireland??

Another point is the environmental friendly image the Bodyshop gives. Most Bodyshop products are made from plastic that will never degrade only if continuously recycled. But how many people who buy Bodyshop products are going to recycle the plastic packaging? Claiming to be environmentally friendly is just a way of attracting more business. Overall, I would never step into a Bodyshop ever again and I would encourage people who believe in people before profit and the environment before profit not to either.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   well     fred    Sun Dec 18, 2005 18:41 
   Simpsons     Mark H    Sun Dec 18, 2005 19:02 
   Query.     libel lawyer    Sun Dec 18, 2005 21:01 
   The Notion Of Rights     d'other    Sun Dec 18, 2005 21:39 
   Yawn!     Brian    Sun Dec 18, 2005 22:09 
   Reply     Anonymous    Sun Dec 18, 2005 23:24 
   Don't mind them.     d'other    Sun Dec 18, 2005 23:49 
   sock-puppetry.     guydebord    Mon Dec 19, 2005 00:15 
   Anita Roddick-head     guydebord    Mon Dec 19, 2005 00:21 
 10   Standard Practice     Cirs    Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:01 
 11   cirs     pat c    Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:10 
 12   Body shop have been "done" before.     i    Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:24 
 13   Actually..........     libel lawyer    Mon Dec 19, 2005 16:48 
 14   .     .    Mon Dec 19, 2005 17:02 
 15   ...     Brian    Tue Dec 20, 2005 00:42 
 16   To brian and elise     Solomon    Tue Dec 20, 2005 15:56 
 17   indymedia posting snobbery     Deirdre    Tue Dec 20, 2005 16:04 
 18   deirdre     pat c    Tue Dec 20, 2005 16:12 
 19   yeah     Deirdre    Tue Dec 20, 2005 16:33 
 20   Minimum wage. And those who will work for it.     x    Tue Dec 20, 2005 16:54 
 21   x     Deirdre    Tue Dec 20, 2005 17:09 
 22   Here's a guess     Seán Ryan    Wed Dec 21, 2005 07:28 
 23   thank you for writing & write again     i    Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:11 
 24   OMG, they loike, wanted me to do, loike, actual work!!     Still looking for the point...    Wed Dec 21, 2005 15:59 
 25   All art critics are useless and dangerous.     D'other    Wed Dec 21, 2005 19:16 
 26   Well first of all....     Libel lawyer    Wed Dec 21, 2005 20:48 
 27   Hold on...     randomer    Thu Dec 22, 2005 01:38 
 28   Here Look.     d'other    Thu Dec 22, 2005 02:23 
 29   That was my point, d'other     libel lawyer    Thu Dec 22, 2005 02:44 
 30   Decohesion     Seán Ryan    Fri Dec 23, 2005 06:10 
 31   re     nerraw    Wed Jan 04, 2006 18:23 
 32   it sucks!     kim    Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:18 
 33   Contact a union.     d'other    Fri Jan 13, 2006 19:22 
 34   different     observer2    Sat Jan 14, 2006 18:11 
 35   i know it's an old post but...     sum1    Sun Nov 12, 2006 22:48 
 36   body shop, a souless corporation     mae    Mon Feb 11, 2008 14:26 
 37   body shop, a souless corporation     mae    Mon Feb 11, 2008 14:30 
 38   about working in Ireland     anonymous    Fri Mar 28, 2008 17:20 
 39   not just bodyshop     chloe    Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:32 
 40   I agree     Sam    Sat Dec 20, 2008 14:07 
 41   L'oreal     Catlady    Sat Dec 20, 2008 23:08 
 42   I agree     annonymous    Fri Jul 03, 2009 21:49 
 43   The Body Shop     Girl    Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:05 
 44   totally true     anonym    Sat Jan 08, 2011 13:26 
 45   IEveryhrting in the Body Shop article is True !     Eugenie    Thu Jan 20, 2011 03:37 
 46   Work Shy People     John the Gent    Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:11 
 47   Disagree with original comment!     Ted    Fri Nov 04, 2011 17:01 


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