FeedA complaint @ Colgate & Walmart
Friday, January 19 2007
When it comes to purchasing of all the normal boring stuff like tooth paste, loo rolls, washing up liquid etc – I am trying to spend as little as possible or get as much as I can for my money.
The tooth paste I use is Colgate Total & Whitening – not enough whitening since this is the land of white teeth – so at Walmart, there was this offer of Buy 1 Get 1 Free. Both boxes were in a plastic wrap and of equal size.
I open up the ‘free’ box first and to my surprise and cursing of these scheming marketing people, I get this:
And with the actual tube is out of the packaging it looks like this:
The thing that really annoys me is that I got fooled by marketing people and that ticks me off. It is a constant battle between consumer and them, isn’t it?
What gets on your nerve?
January 19th, 2007 at 23:09
what gets on my nerves.
Gals complaining about such tricks…ppl not getting fooled by the gimmicks.
Actually, I am on the other side of the fence .. 😛 Soon wd be joining marketing and prolly such a retail firm.. he he.
January 19th, 2007 at 23:22
Jay – you are going over to the dark side … noooooooooooooooooo
ps start reading the Dilbert cartoon!!
January 20th, 2007 at 8:02
Wait a minute. You said a while back that you wanted to go to Walmart and that when you did, you’d blog about it. You’re holding back on us!
January 20th, 2007 at 16:14
uhm, yeah … I never got around to have a moan about it. Good memory Cap 🙂
I went to another Walmart in Oakland yesterday and that was huge – much bigger then previous on. But did they have what I wanted?
NO!!
I wanted the new Diet Coke with Splenda as a sweetener as it is supposedly not carcinogenic as the aspartame that is in the normal Diet Coke.
January 21st, 2007 at 7:37
Guess WalMart didn’t overwhelm you with awe? I don’t like to go there – it’s always too crowded.
Never heard of Diet Coke with Splenda. I may try that. I like Splenda. But … we’re all gonna die anyway 😉