Aussies outraged by shock discovery at an op-shop: The audacity

Aussies have been left outraged after a customer discovered a single sanitary pad with a $2 price tag on it at an op-shop. 

A woman and her friend had been visiting a Salvation Army at Mount Gravatt, in Brisbanes south, when they made the discovery earlier this week. 

We just want to show you a particular item that we think is pushing the envelope, one of the women said in a video shared to TikTok.

The pair were seen heading to the back of the shop and picking up a Libra sanitary pad with a $2 price tag.

‘Its open at the back, and they are actually selling this. That’s just disgusting, one of the women said.

‘It is disgusting,’ her friend added.

It is believed the single Libra pad was in a larger pack that was on sale for $2, but it had been left behind when the rest of the pads were stolen from the pack.

A Salvation Army worker named Karen responded to one of the women who posted her message on TikTok.

In the TikTok, two women were enjoying ‘a bit of girls day op shopping’ and said we just want to show you a particular item that we think is pushing the envelope’. One of the women is pictured

I have spoken to the store manager and the team at Mt Gravatt who assure me that when the items were put on the sales floor it was a sealed pack of 10 pads for $2, she said.

I can only assume that the others were taken and the one you picked up was left and the $2 price ticket put on it.’

It is not the intension (sic) of the team to insult women no matter what their financial status and will do their utmost to make sure this sort of thing does not happen again.’

Social media users were quick to express their outrage.

They should be putting these in a basket on the counter labelled "Free" for those women or girls that cant afford sanitary items, one wrote.

Salvos has an audacity acting like sanitary items are a luxury buy.

Do they not realise that it’s classed as contaminated and should have been thrown out I’ve worked for the Salvation Army before it got burnt down my local one they should not be selling that, a second added. 

Why leave it there? Did you ask or tell staff? another asked, directing their question to the women who spotted the pad.

We left it there. We were just too stunned, one of the women responded.

Sanitry (sic) items should be free at stores like this, Drs, hospitals etc, another social media user added.

Sure, people would take advantage but theres also people who are desperate.