Posted on 11/10/2005 1:48:18 AM PST by News Hunter
A Catholic advocacy group has launched a national boycott against Wal-Mart, claiming the world's No. 1 retailer has in effect "banned" Christmas, while promoting other seasonal holidays such as Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
But Wal-Mart tells WorldNetDaily it has "absolutely not" banned Christmas, but is just "trying to serve all our customers for the holiday season."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
"Do me a favor, Wal-Mart shill, stop posting to me."
Do yourself a favor and back up your accusation.
You have yet to back up your claim.
CT is a retread troll.
These days it's difficult to tell the genuine folks from trolls from hired guns. For the record, professional trolls is a growth industry.
True.
The viral marketing types have been here before, and zotted as well.
I blame Sidney Frank, who more or less discovered the concept.
Name sounds familiar, but I am not knowledgeable of them.
But if they invented trolling for marketing, they should bring back the stocks and pillory just for them.
Sidney Frank is the genius behind Jaegermesiter. He used viral marketing prior to the internet to make it popular in a certain age group. He did it again with Grey Goose vodka in an entirely different demographic.
The concept moved to the internet with the Blair Witch Project and now it's a booming business.
Jaegermesiter.. then he definitely needs to be beaten for it.
*chuckle*
Soggy sand filled socks shall be his lot.
Think about what he did. He took an obscure German liquor with a weird name that was meant to be sipped and turned it into a college party drink. Then he took a FRENCH VODKA and gave it snob appeal.
That is quite evil...
Genius, yes.
But evil.
I actually witnessed his Grey Goose girls in action. Basically out of work actresses who were paid to pose as customers in trend maker ginmills in Manhattan and order Grey Goose. They'd come in two or three at a time, order Grey Goose, pay cash and talk up the liquor to guys who tried to pick them up. They'd never identify themselves as being with the company.
THAT is slick.
However, it is also quite.. evil.
I watched the John Gibson interview with a marketing (?) consultant and the subject and complaint was Wal Mart is wishing customers HAPPY HOLIDAY and not Merry Christmas. That was the context of the story, not that they didn't carry Christmas items. They wish to draw ALL customers to their stores so they don't want to offend those not celebrating Christmas.
My thought at watching the interview was what better time for people to curb their spending and bring to a halt the commercialization of Christmas? How many people spend money they don't have or go completely over the budget? What on earth does any of that have to do with Christmas?
If Wal Mart thinks all their shoppers deserve to be wished a Happy Holiday instead of Merry Christmas to avoid offending those not celebrating Christmas, so be it. Christians can stay away and show that they don't buy into all the commercial nonsense.
That would be my choice but then I've only been in a couple of Wal Marts in my life. I understand their prices are great but I find Target stores much cleaner and neater and prefer that environment. I shop now as I did 50 years ago and that's by not spending money on useless purchases; remembering how little we needed at Christmas as kids to be truly happy and pleased with what we received.
That's my opinion...
Do the math -- figure he paid the girls 20 bucks and hour. Plus the price of three drinks an hour is something under 100 bucks an hour for a team. In four hours they can hit four saloons and talk to maybe a half dozen guys in each, not including the bartender. Round the figure out to $500 a night per team. And he was sending out a dozen or more teams per night. For under $100,000 he reached a whole lot of people who would remember his product.
Online marketing is more insidious. A team of half a dozen can reached thousands of people an hour by working two or three chatrooms at a time. Every wonder how the new video games blow out of the stores?
Yeah, the video game marketing I have seen here and there.
One reason I wouldn't make it in marketing.
I'm not that slick.
*chuckle*
Evil, but not slick.
me too
Before Quake4 came out, there were people hitting all the Id software, Activision, and Raven boards.
Mainly, they got ignored.
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