http://authenticorganizations.com/harquail/2009/08/03/wal-mart-knocks-off-the-girl-scouts/
Summary: Wally World has decided to start marketing fake Thin Mints and Tagalongs (a.k.a. Peanut Butter Patties).
Well, this explains why they wouldn’t let us set up any booths outside their store this year :mad:.
One less reason to visit The Evil Empire.
Man, this is gonna be better than a Godzilla vs Mothra movie.
Is Sam Walton turning in his grave yet?
I’ve very impressed. WalMart has indeed proven that they are perfectly capable of beating up little girls.
That was almost seven months ago. Did the Girl Scouts survive?
Let me know when they start making knockoff Samoas.
But I say, good for Walmart. The actual girl scouts cookies are expensive and only come out for a limited time each year. If I can have my chocolate covered peanut butter cookies year round for less, that’s a plus plus for me.
Cookie season varies (ours just started), and the cookies per that article weren’t yet nationally available.
We might just have to start playing dirty.
note to mods: the above is a humorous depiction and does not express any intent or desire to… “reprove” any business that stands in our way…
Wal-Mart isn’t “targetting” the Girl Scouts. They are simply selling a product for a cheaper price.
They’re craptastic cookies anyways and I’m sure the Walmart cookies will have to be made worse to taste like them. Get over it. It’s not like those flavors haven’t been made by others as long as cookies have been mass produced. Either people feel sorry for your kid and pity buy cookies, or you push them at everybody at work to sell these boxes of culinary shit.
…a product that happens to be only sold by a single other organization. I would say that it is accurate to say that they are “targeting” that organization.
Yaknow, Keebler (I think it was) made some peanut-butter-chocolate and caramel-coconut-chocolate cookies that were preeeeeeeetty much Tagalongs and Samoas. I see the peanut butter ones on their site but not the caramel ones. I know I’ve had them in the last year, and I distinctly remember thinking how much they tasted like Girl Scout cookies.
I’m no fan of Wal Mart, but I don’t think ripping off the Girl Scout cookies is anything new…
Well, nobody else makes Girl Scout Cookies, but then again, neither does Wal-Mart. Are you sure that no one else makes a similar cookie?
Yeah, OK. But I still maintain that if Wal-Mart is making knock-off versions of Girl Scout cookies, you can legitimately say that they’re targeting the Girl Scouts. I mean, I’m not making any kind of moral value judgment about this. I’m just saying that the use of the term “targeting” is fair.
These seem similar:
http://www.taquitos.net/cookies/Keebler_Fudge_Shoppe_Grasshopper_Mint
Christ, take a deep breath already.
If someone else makes a similar version, are they targeting the Girl Scouts?
Yes?
I want to be outraged, but last time I bought Girl Scout cookies the Samoas were the size of Life Savers. I used to feel real, tangible guilt after eating an entire box!
By that logic, every hamburger chain is targeting every other hamburger chain. Why can’t they just be in competition for the same market? That’s kind of how America rolls.
If someone made a Big Mac knock-off, I’d say they were targeting McDonald’s, sure.
Anyway, this is really just semantic nitpicking and I don’t have time to get involved in one of these types of arguments today, so I’ll just say that I see where you’re coming from but still think “targeting” is appropriate in the thread title. 