Although this really is in poor taste, I think the failure of these products may result from the fact that Topshop had failed to understand the market - they should have retailed it at a world pilgrimage site, like Rome or Lourdes. 

When you think of some of the 'rubbish' that is sold, sometimes officially at pilgrimage sites, these products are not much worse. Blue Q are somewhat challenging, even controversial, in their approach to marketing almost anything, as the website clearly shows!  I particularly like the book entitled '50 sad chairs' - about 50 sad chairs! 

It has always been a joke, since I was in school, that you could always tell when it was Christmas because Woolworths had Cadbury Crème Eggs on sale.  Well, on a similar theme, I was a little 'taken aback' when visiting Walsingham just after Christmas. 

In the window of the Shrine Shop they have a statue of the Resurrected Christ - presumably from an Easter set - whilst in the other windows they still had Nativity sets.  

It would seem that commercialisation has even compromised the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.  Trying to get some people to accept the Incarnation is 'like flogging a dead horse' without trying to 'flog them' the Resurrection at the same time!