Asda and Tesco apologise for 'mental illness' costumes
date:Sep 27, 2013
Asda, the British arm of Wal-Mart, the world's largest stores group, on Wednesday withdrew a product it advertised on its website as a mental patient fancy dress costume.

UK market leader Tesco followed on Thursday by removing its Psycho Ward costume.

It is staggeringly offensive to the one in four of us affected by mental health problems and our families and friends, and troubling that some businesses are still so out of touch with the public mood, said Sue Baker, director of Time to Change,
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