UK retailer suspends sales of popular toy amid long lines, safety fears
A retailer in the UK suspends in-store sales of Labubu toys amid rising concerns over public safety and staff threats, following reports of global thefts and queue violence tied to the sought-after collectibles. Their limited availability has drawn buyers from abroad to the UK, with Pop Mart -- the distributor of Labubu dolls -- seeing overnight queues and chaotic scenes outside its flagship stores.
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00:00I don't know I think I'm gonna remove the yellow one for this
00:30so I just want to cover people's understanding because the company doing this like for safety issue also it would be fair if the system is a new system gonna push out so everybody got a fair chance to get their laboo boo so before we only got one so now we have four yeah four on the rest of day just to in case now I mean for safety reasons just put the cell on hold
00:59this product it has many many funds from everywhere in the world and in some countries is not available for purchase so there's many many people who come to London just to purchase them and they wait for hours queuing up in front of the store and it's so sad to see them be disappointed because the resellers create a really difficult environment for them or they get violent or they end up buying all the stock and we have nothing left for them and some people even try to buy those from other people in front of the line
01:29and if they don't sell it to them they end up threatening them and they actually end up threatening us as a staff if we don't let them come in or if we don't sell them the product that they want
01:40things like like the laboo boo's and the hirono I've got actually a whole shelf of it of like all the hirono said I've got like all my laboo boo's including the secrets on display at the moment because it's just not safe to take it outside at the moment so right now I'm just putting everything on display
01:58I think it's a sensible decision because a lot of people are fighting and a lot of people are getting hurt because of it
02:04there's so many TikTok trends at the moment of like how people are getting punched some people are being pointed knife
02:11so I feel like that their decision to suspend laboo boo's at the moment like gives people time to just calm down first you know
02:19I mean I have lots at home lots and lots I have like the special editions as well
02:25um I usually come here not expecting them so it's very rare that they do have them
02:33I do get asked where I get them um when I'm wearing it so and then I have to reply
02:40oh pop them up but they don't do them here and then like the online drops are always really difficult as well
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