I was watching Dragons Den a few weeks ago when one of the participants exclaimed proudly “The retail market for plus-size and supersize clothing is getting bigger and bigger every day…it’s a growing market we think you should invest in” – and it got me thinking is it right that business people are making money out of other people’s poor health?
On one hand we’ve got the Government talking about an ‘obesity epidemic’ and on the other hand we’ve got lucrative entrepreneurs like My Size USA investing time and money into making “oversized products including seat belt extenders for cars and planes, extra large hangers, jumbo key keyboards, high-capacity bikes and trikes and heavy-duty furniture“. Business men and women all over the world are taking advantage of this section of society by creating a whole industry around enabling the ‘obesity epidemic’. Here are a few products created to “serve the special needs of supersize men and women”:
Extra large toilet seat adapter – capacity 600lbs
In another post I decided to spend the day in my underwear to see if exposing my wobbly bits would change the food I chose to eat, and it got me thinking this: If ‘supersize’ people couldn’t get clothes big enough to fit them would they walk around naked? Probably not. They’d probably lose weight.
Websites referred to in this post are http://mysizeusa.com/, http://www.amplestuff.com/, http://www.livingxl.com/store/en_US/index.jsp
badly stuffed animal 