Just finished reading the News-Sentinel attack on Rev. Michael Latham's, executive director of NAACP attack on Wal-Mart. BobCaylor writes that Latham's call for a boycott could hurt the revitalization on the southside. Caylor suggests that clients on the southside are not entitled to the same treatment, because Wal-Mart is not a public service, but a privately owned business. In other words, Wal-Mart can do what ever they darn please. And just like Wal-Mart, the private citizens can do whatever they darn please, including boycotting the store.
But, let's take a closer look at the underbelly of the beast, meaning the body of the threat of a boycott, and the arms and legs of the media coverage of the threat of a boycott, and the market manager of Wal-Mart indifference to the threat. Begs the question, who is really benefiting from all of this posturing? I believe all three, the media sells paper, NAACP will get sponsorships, jobs or money, and Wal-Mart will hire less people to operate it store on the southside.
Wal-Mart is not doing the folks on the southside any favor. Wal-Mart is coming to the Southside because of the amount of disposable dollars spend on the southside. The author of the Million Dollar Slaves writes that a star athlete's father tells his son, to hold out for the best offer by a college. The college is not giving you a scholarship, you earned the scholarship. In other words, the son is bringing something that the college wants, no different for Wal-Mart. If Wal-Mart wants the southside dollars to support it store, than it needs to listen to the wants of its shoppers.. scanner, lay-away, longer hours.
Besides, the SouthCentre Mall is not being developed for shoppers, it's a training center for police recruitment. The real development is happen on the boulevard to downtown. I just saw another business going in to meet the needs of the southside, a laundry mat. Ricker's City Laundry at 3817 South Calhoun, has invested in brand new washers and dryers in a building next to a gas station, ice cream place and bus stop. Somebody researched the market demographics of that area to meet the needs of the people. I just hope they use hot water unlike some of the laundries on the southside. All the money is going north to downtown, why else would the city want to build a baseball stadium downtown?
SouthCentre Mall is a sham, being used to drive up the prices of home in the area for homeowners who are going to need housing after the city's programs begin razing the homes closer to downtown.These rumors of a staged boycott, is just puppet master rallying the troops, to pretend that someone is looking out for the average hard working joe. Latham is just a puppet among the puppet master, but I stated earlier, I didn't say he was a friend of mines. But I have to hand it to him, the appointed honorary privileged representative of the Africian-American monolithic community does knows how to work the system. Matter of fact, this Saturday, I believe the NAACP is having an event in the downtown area, the Grand Wayne Center, September 16, 2006 at 6:00 p.m., but the media already knew this.
So who's zooming who?
Showing posts with label Marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marketing. Show all posts
Friday, September 15, 2006
Friday, August 25, 2006
Fellow Blogger is Sued
Folks who want to know who is Vince, Angry White Boy, and Who Wrote This ?itch Needs to go Back to Africa, read below,.
Press Release
Indianapolis, IN – The Great American Spice Company and its owner Daniel Turkette are the subjects of a lawsuit filed in Allen County Circuit Court by Attorney General Steve Carter. The Fort Wayne Company operates an Internet website, http://www.americanspice.com/, where it sold various items to12 consumers and failed to deliver the products.
“As more and more people purchase products over the Internet, it’s important that sellers follow through on their end of the bargain,” said Attorney General Steve Carter. “People need to feel secure that they will receive the goods they buy while shopping online.”
The Better Business Bureau Serving Northeast Indiana (BBB) assisted the attorney general’s office in the investigation of the case by providing copies of complaints they had received against the company.
“This is a great example of why people should check out a company before purchasing products from them while online,” said Michael Coil, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Better Business Bureau. “If they investigated this company before purchasing the products, they might have seen that there were many complaints against this particular retailer. Hopefully with this action, consumers will get something back from this company.”
The state seeks consumer restitution of nearly $900.00 for consumers who purchased products from the website, yet never received them. The attorney general also alleges the company and its owner violated the Deceptive Consumer Sales Act and seeks civil penalties and costs.
The Great American Spice Company sells spices and dry goods, gift items, popcorn and snacks, mixes, condiments, sauces and oils, and miscellaneous items via its website. Its principal place of business is 628 Leesburg Road, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46808.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 25, 2006
Fort Wayne Internet-Based Business Ordered to Refund Customers
Attorney General Pursued Court Judgment after Company Ignored Lawsuit
Indianapolis, IN – The Great American Spice Company and its owner Daniel Turkette have been ordered by the Allen County Circuit Court to pay $31,500 as the result of a lawsuit filed against the company by Attorney General Steve Carter last June. The Fort Wayne company operates an Internet website where it sold various items to the customers yet failed to deliver the products.
“People should be confident when purchasing products over the Internet that they will get what they paid for,” said Attorney General Steve Carter. “The court’s order should serve as a message that in Indiana, sellers are expected to make good on their promises.”
The judgment orders restitution for 12 out-of-state customers, civil penalties, costs and an injunction barring the company from engaging in similar activities.
The Better Business Bureau Serving Northeast Indiana assisted the attorney general’s office in the investigation of the case by providing copies of the complaints it received against the company.
The Great American Spice Company sells spices and dry goods, gift items, popcorn and snacks, mixes, condiments, sauces and oils, and miscellaneous items via its website. Its principal place of business is 628 Leesburg Road, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46808.
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Press Release
Indianapolis, IN – The Great American Spice Company and its owner Daniel Turkette are the subjects of a lawsuit filed in Allen County Circuit Court by Attorney General Steve Carter. The Fort Wayne Company operates an Internet website, http://www.americanspice.com/, where it sold various items to12 consumers and failed to deliver the products.
“As more and more people purchase products over the Internet, it’s important that sellers follow through on their end of the bargain,” said Attorney General Steve Carter. “People need to feel secure that they will receive the goods they buy while shopping online.”
The Better Business Bureau Serving Northeast Indiana (BBB) assisted the attorney general’s office in the investigation of the case by providing copies of complaints they had received against the company.
“This is a great example of why people should check out a company before purchasing products from them while online,” said Michael Coil, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Better Business Bureau. “If they investigated this company before purchasing the products, they might have seen that there were many complaints against this particular retailer. Hopefully with this action, consumers will get something back from this company.”
The state seeks consumer restitution of nearly $900.00 for consumers who purchased products from the website, yet never received them. The attorney general also alleges the company and its owner violated the Deceptive Consumer Sales Act and seeks civil penalties and costs.
The Great American Spice Company sells spices and dry goods, gift items, popcorn and snacks, mixes, condiments, sauces and oils, and miscellaneous items via its website. Its principal place of business is 628 Leesburg Road, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46808.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 25, 2006
Fort Wayne Internet-Based Business Ordered to Refund Customers
Attorney General Pursued Court Judgment after Company Ignored Lawsuit
Indianapolis, IN – The Great American Spice Company and its owner Daniel Turkette have been ordered by the Allen County Circuit Court to pay $31,500 as the result of a lawsuit filed against the company by Attorney General Steve Carter last June. The Fort Wayne company operates an Internet website where it sold various items to the customers yet failed to deliver the products.
“People should be confident when purchasing products over the Internet that they will get what they paid for,” said Attorney General Steve Carter. “The court’s order should serve as a message that in Indiana, sellers are expected to make good on their promises.”
The judgment orders restitution for 12 out-of-state customers, civil penalties, costs and an injunction barring the company from engaging in similar activities.
The Better Business Bureau Serving Northeast Indiana assisted the attorney general’s office in the investigation of the case by providing copies of the complaints it received against the company.
The Great American Spice Company sells spices and dry goods, gift items, popcorn and snacks, mixes, condiments, sauces and oils, and miscellaneous items via its website. Its principal place of business is 628 Leesburg Road, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46808.
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SURVIVOR SHOW
The producers of the Survivor Show will have a racial theme. The show contestants will have 4 different groups competing against one another, African-Americans, Hispanic, Asians, and Raced White. Folks are in an uproar.
If anyone has ever watched the show knows that it does not take long, for the African-American, Hispanic and Asians to get voted off, after one or two shows. How the African-American sista made it for as long as she did was amazing. But we were are all pulling for her. If the average television watcher is African-American, what viewers do you think Survivors are targeting? If most African-Americans and Hispanics can not buy homes because of discriminatory practices but spend billions of dollars on consumer goods, who do you think the producers are marketing the show for those ads?
If anyone has ever watched the show knows that it does not take long, for the African-American, Hispanic and Asians to get voted off, after one or two shows. How the African-American sista made it for as long as she did was amazing. But we were are all pulling for her. If the average television watcher is African-American, what viewers do you think Survivors are targeting? If most African-Americans and Hispanics can not buy homes because of discriminatory practices but spend billions of dollars on consumer goods, who do you think the producers are marketing the show for those ads?
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