Promo Magazine: Oklahoma grocer Super H filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores for using a scanner to collect barcode data from products on Super H's shelves. The suit, filed in Osage County District Court on June 13, alleges that Wal-Mart sent workers into Super H to check prices as Wal-Mart readies to open a supercenter nearby in August. Super H isn't worried about the price information; its real concern is other …
Coca-Cola Forced To Play Nice In Europe
USA Today: The European Union said Wednesday that it reached an agreement with Coca-Cola that allows the world's largest soft-drink maker to escape a fine but puts restrictions on its sales practices in Europe. Under the deal, the Atlanta-based company will no longer be able to strike exclusive arrangements with stores and cafes in Europe that stop them from serving rival brands, or offer them rebates for buying more …
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No Logo, No SUV, No Problem
In his latest post, Ernie Schenck considers the growing ranks of anti-advertising forces. These days, it seems like everyone is talking about the rise of the consumer as marketing ally. But what about the rise of the consumer as marketing antagonist? It's one thing to put up a microsite and ask people to make movies about sneakers or write stories about their greatest hotel adventure or whatever. But what do you …
The Benefits Of Anonymity
MSNBC and Adfreak are reporting on two European artists who've managed to sell shop owners in Vienna on a unique two-week installation. The coverings are part of a two-week art project dubbed "Delete!" …
What Would Jesus Drive?
from Detroit Free Press: A conservative Christian group launched a boycott against Ford Motor Co., saying the second-largest U.S. automaker has given thousands of dollars to gay rights groups, offers benefits to same-sex couples and actively recruits gay employees. "From redefining family to include homosexual marriage, to giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to support homosexual groups and their agenda, to …
KFC Gets Caught In The Middle
Common Dreams reports on the torching of a KFC in Pakistan. Six people were burnt alive when a mob protesting a suicide bombing of a mosque torched an outlet of an American fast food chain in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi. Police and firemen recovered the bodies of six Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) employees after an angry mob set the restaurant on fire late Monday following a suicide attack on a Shiite …
Minneapolis Intellectuals Have No Trouble Reading Between The Lines
from Minneapolis Star Tribune: What do Mao Zedong, J. Edgar Hoover, Batgirl and Casanova have to do with the new Minneapolis Central Library? They're part of an edgy new ad campaign from the Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library -- edgier than the organization even expected. It has generated heated e-mails from as far away as Taiwan, and the campaign hasn't even been formally launched. Critics say that promoting …
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Denny’s Slammed Again
from Palm Beach Post: Seven men of Middle Eastern descent have sued a South Florida Denny's restaurant franchisee and one of its managers for $28 million, saying they were kicked out because of their ancestry and compared to Osama Bin Laden. The men, who are all U.S. citizens, are seeking $4 million each from Restaurant Collection Inc., which owns the Denny's franchise, and shift manager Eduardo Ascano, whom they say …
