What CBS 2 found that some of the most famous stores in our area are doing is not only disgusting, it’s dangerous. Selling used lingerie. Shame On You went undercover and what we found is shocking.
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[W]e bought thong underwear at two Victoria’s Secret stores, and at Macy’s, Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomingdale’s. We took them home, cut off the sales tags to suggest they’d been worn then marked each pair with two tiny black dots on the labels.
Every store took back our thongs without the tags, never asking if they’d been worn. Next our hidden camera caught the sales clerk at a Victoria’s Secret attaching a new price tag on our returned thong, hanging it up and then putting it back on the floor for sale. We know it’s the same thong because our two dots were on the label. Unbelievably, it�s not illegal in the tri-state area to sell used underwear, but “It could get someone sick.”
Microbiologist Dr. Lori Daane says dangerous bacteria like yeast and ecoli can survive for weeks on lingerie and can be easily transferred. “Given the fact that you can get these organisms on this clothing, especially thong underwear, it’s pretty likely you�re going to get some fecal contamination.”
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We also found our returned thongs back on the sales floor at another Victoria’s Secret, at Saks Fifth Avenue and at Macy’s.
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Interestingly, in New York it’s illegal to sell hats that have been returned but not thong underwear.
Some stores do refuse to take back underwear, a policy that should be posted. But the best protection for consumers is to wash, wash, wash your underwear before putting it on.
Just one more reason to buy inexpensive, packaged underwear.
Via King of Fools.