Posted on 06/09/2013 8:47:41 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed
Troubled Staples just realized its stores need more in the aisles than employees and unsold inventory, and that alienating millions of customers is an unprofitable marketing tack.
Angry reactions following its disallowing a gun retailer to enter its small business contest has resulted in office supply chain Staples ending the discriminatory practice, Deena Winter of Nebraska Watchdog revealed in a report updated yesterday.
“Maple Creek Gunsmithing, a gun retailer in Fremont, tried to enter a Staples small business ‘Push it Forward’ contest for a shot at winning a $50,000 marketing campaign,” Winter related. “Instead, the owners got an email from Staples saying they couldn’t participate because their business promotes firearms and weapons.”
The policy reversal was announced on the gun retailer’s Facebook page, which notified supporters “We spoke with a representative of Staples who wanted to let us know that they had made a mistake and they are making it right by allowing the firearms industry to participate in any future contests.”
“We heard you!” the office supply giant confirmed on its Facebook page. “At Staples, we value all of our customers and appreciate your feedback. We now realize the rules of our Push It Forward contest were too restrictive and kept out legitimate businesses. Unfortunately, we can't change the rules once the contest is underway. But we will revise our rules to make sure future contests are more inclusive and reflect our commitment to helping all small businesses.”
For some gun owners, the tepid surrender may be too little too late if the preponderance of angry comments responding to that post are any indication. But what’s most telling is which side of the debate the corporation decided it was in the interests of its bottom line to heed.
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Someone please tell me where this is written into law. I suppose if they had a "no negros" contest, they'd go through with that one too?
Yup, too little, too late. Add another to the list of "no-spending zones."
Dear Staples.....
We do not associate or di business with companies kike yours that have sleezy leftwingers as employees
I guess telling them to take me off their e-mail list, and that I would be taking my business elsewhere in the future because of this policy did get through.
When you’ve got ‘em by the wallet, their hearts and minds will follow...
I won’t shop at Staples again. The shunning of guns is part but *Push it Forward* disgusts me.
I won’t buy Ziploc either, they’re using the Forward crap, too. If a company uses the Obama/Democrat propaganda that means they only want democrat money. See ya.
Before closing shop, Staples might do a mea Culpa by identifying and firing the management entities that did it.
Good that Maple Creek Gunsmithing ended up getting way more than $50,000 worth of FREE advertising.
You win the prize for worst typo of the week.
” I suppose if they had a “no negros” contest, they’d go through with that one too? “
Yeah, I wrote to them right after this was posted originally on FR, and they sent me back the “it was a mistake” e-mail. I wrote back and said that their retraction was too little too late, that I was unsubscribing to their e-mails and would no longer be a customer. It’s long past time when I will spend a dime with anyone who doesn’t support the Bill of Rights, all of them!
1. Let horse escape.
2. Close barn door.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has jurisdiction on non single state specific games and lotteries. When you think about it, this inability to change the rules is a good thing. Is this not what we complain about when the libots talk about a "living Constitution" that judges can change?
As I said in the earlier post a week or so ago, if they can choose to ban the 2nd amendment business’s why don’t they ban 1st amendment business’s? We’re talking about amendments aren’t we?
LOL! That’s a doozie!
Yep, so long Staples, so long Target, Goodbye NYT, News Week, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, ...
We never really knew you.
Most of the fine print in contests says that they can discontinue without notice. They should have killed the contest (and immediately started another one for $100,000) because the fallout from that issue is nothing compared to a gun-rights boycott.
They should have come right out with a repudiation of the restriction, and firing of TOP management that could be held accountable, and some pro-gun action like donating to firearm safety education for kids.
1. Let horse escape.
2. Close barn door.
More like:
Staples business model:
1. Chase horse out of barn.
2. Close barn door.
Haters never understand much about rights; they do, however, understand dollars.
“We heard you”
And I also heard you, Staples. Your lack of support for the civil rights of Americans will not be forgotten.
I defer to your better example of the genius thinking at Staples. Their slogan needs to changed to “That was dumb.”
I thought I'd read in an earlier thread that the fine print allowed them to change the rules without notice. Maybe I misread it.
Anyway, imagine the uproar if a company having a contest excluded a participant because they "promote homosexuality".
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