- Boost Juice store has been forced to remove Halloween decorations
- Shoppers were shocked by the graphic display
A Boost Juice store in Western Australia has removed its gory Halloween decorations following outrage from the local community.
Photos uploaded to a Perth Facebook group on Thursday show cardboard cutouts of hands and feet covered in blood scattered across the Perth store at the Cockburn Gateway Shopping Centre, about 23 kilometers south of the capital of the state.
Shoppers were shocked by the images, with one claiming the display looked like ‘a butcher’s shop’.
Boost Juice Australia’s chief executive has since confirmed the awards have been removed.
Photos uploaded to Facebook showed the gory display of Halloween decorations at the Boost Juice store in the Cockburn Gateway Shopping Center south of Perth
The CEO of Boost Juice Australia confirmed the gruesome awards had been removed
“As soon as we became aware of this type of decoration, we asked the team to remove it from the exhibition as it is not part of who we are and how we want to represent our brand,” they said. Yahoo News.
‘This display has now been removed.
‘Fun Halloween suits Boost, but scary and gruesome Halloween does not suit our brand.’
Reactions on social media were varied, with some members of the Facebook page, a local mothers’ group, expressing outrage, while others did not understand what the fuss was about.
“I think it’s horrible to have something so graphic for people to walk by,” the author of the post wrote.
“Some have a hard time with their kids even walking into Big W and Kmart where they have the skeletons and ghosts and so on. I don’t understand what severed limbs have to do with Halloween. This is just terrible for a store in my opinion.”
“With everything going on in the world right now and the horrific images we see of Palestinian children, this is in very bad taste,” one person replied.
“There’s definitely a limit when it comes to this gory stuff and this goes too far,” said another.
Some locals criticized the store for its decorations, with one labeling the display as ‘terrible’
However, others argued that “there are worse things happening in the world compared to some tacky Halloween decorations.”
“It’s Halloween, spooky season, don’t wrap your kids in bubble wrap,” someone said.
“Kids being scared for two minutes isn’t the end of the world, it’s really not hard to explain they’re fake,” another added.
Another member of the Facebook mom group labeled the original poster as “Karen” and argued that the decorations were “amazing.”