(February 27, 2014 at 9:44 pm)Aractus Wrote: Oh and FYI it's illegal in Australia for any company (/organization) to organize/arrange for a boycott of a product - don't you have these laws in the USA? The purpose of the law is, for instance that a competitor - or entity with a competing interest - is not allowed to drive business away from a target company. Thus we typically see petitions and not illegal boycotts...In the US most "boycotts" are simply a request to consumers in general, and rarely are organized beyond that. Since companies will occasionally give in to the threat of bad publicity (moreso than the concern over sales lost due to a boycott), the call for boycotts is usually as far as it goes. Based on the Cookie Cott site, that's all that it is.
I think they're killing themselves with the name, though. I read "cookie cott" and I think of a bed for cookies. And I'm thinking that asking Americans to stop buying cookies that we can stuff into our fat faces is probably not going to work, either.
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