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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Jessica Sansome

Primark's goldfish soap bars baffle shoppers as they look 'real'

Sometimes things can seem so realistic you start to believe they are real.

That's the case for Primark shoppers who have been completely fooled by goldfish soap bars.

In a very clever product design, the fish appear to be in a plastic bag - reminiscent of buying them from the pet shop. We have all been there.

But the fact that the £1.80 bars are so life-like, at first glance people thought that the retail giant was being all kinds of cruel.

A post was shared in the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook group with the simple advice caption: "For those doing bath bomb hampers you can get this soap in Primark."

But the comments soon turned into confusion.

Primark has delivered on the realistic front (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

"I thought they was real fish," said one.

Another replied: "I thought was real at first, need to wake up."

"Omg thought that was real fish and someone playing sick trick," a third said.

Another surprised commenter said: "Could u imagine if someone tossed that in my bath!!!!!!!!"

Somebody in Primark's product design team has done a very good job.

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