{"id":149753,"date":"2020-06-26T03:17:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T01:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/26\/new-zealand-supermarket-chain-becomes-first-to-use-period-label-on-menstrual-products\/"},"modified":"2020-06-26T03:17:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T01:17:18","slug":"new-zealand-supermarket-chain-becomes-first-to-use-period-label-on-menstrual-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=149753","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand supermarket chain becomes first to use &#039;period&#039; label on menstrual products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shoppers at NZ supermarket chain Countdown will no longer see euphemistic language like \u2018sanitary\u2019 to describe pads, tampons and menstrual cupsShoppers at a New Zealand supermarket chain will no longer see euphemistic language like \u201csanitary\u201d or \u201cfeminine hygiene\u201d products to describe pads, tampons and menstrual cups after the chain said it would be the first in the world to use the word \u201cperiod\u201d to describe the items.No other local or international retailer used the word \u201cperiod\u201d to describe the products shoppers buy for menstruation, according to a spokesperson for Countdown, a major supermarket chain in New Zealand that operates 180 stores. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/26\/new-zealand-supermarket-chain-countdown-becomes-first-to-use-period-label-on-menstrual-products\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand supermarket chain becomes first to use &#039;period&#039; label on menstrual products<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoppers at NZ supermarket chain Countdown will no longer see euphemistic language like \u2018sanitary\u2019 to describe pads, tampons and menstrual cupsShoppers at a New Zealand supermarket chain will no longer see euphemistic language like \u201csanitary\u201d or \u201cfeminine hygiene\u201d products to describe pads, tampons and menstrual cups after the chain said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}