remember reading once that het male taste for breast size is inversely
proportional to socioeconomic status - i.e., lower-order men like big ones,
and higher-order ones prefer smaller ones. But unfortunately I lack a
cite....
Doug >>
Apropos of which, I pass on the following Reuters story without comment. (sorry for the line breaks -- we've just changed email programs)
LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) - Britain's biggest supermarket chain has asked
growers to supply smaller melons after research showed women shoppers subconsciously compared
them to the size of their breasts, newspapers reported on Monday.
The Daily Telegraph said buyers working for Tesco <TSCO.L> were told by the retail psychologist who carried out the research that a current preference for smaller busts was the reason why traditional big, fleshy melons were remaining unsold.
"We were very surprised by the results of the market research," a Tesco spokesman was
quoted as saying by the newspaper.
"But it's certainly produced results. Since we introduced smaller melons
two months ago
we have sold more than a million."
The research showed that seven out of 10 women questioned agreed breast size was
"the most likely subconscious factor when selecting size of melon".
Monday, 3 May 1999 00:32:07 ENDS [nL0279797]
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