
John Brock points us to a Radar piece on luxury toilet paper, how it’s taking off in Europe and how may or may not in America. Granted the so-called luxury market – those folks who pay obscene amounts of money for luxury branded stuff when normal stuff would do just fine – is growing rapidly and Toilet Paper World President Kenn Fischburg says the notion is “not dissimilar from enjoying different kinds of wine, a chardonnay versus a cabernet,” we’re not buying it. No one wants to wipe their ass with a Gucci handbag.