Comments on: Good news/bad news in girl’s retail stupidity: Club Libby Lu, American Girl http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2008/11/10/good-newsbad-news-in-girls-retail-stupidity-club-libby-lu-american-girl/ Blog of Parents for Ethical Marketing Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:28:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: What’s next? Advertising in the womb? « The Meandering Thoughts of an IMC Student. http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2008/11/10/good-newsbad-news-in-girls-retail-stupidity-club-libby-lu-american-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-1612 What’s next? Advertising in the womb? « The Meandering Thoughts of an IMC Student. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:15:22 +0000 http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2008/11/10/good-newsbad-news-in-girls-retail-stupidity-club-libby-lu-american-girl/#comment-1612 [...] blog.  This is where I found some comments that further explained their agenda.  There was one entry that stood out for [...] [...] blog.  This is where I found some comments that further explained their agenda.  There was one entry that stood out for [...]

]]> By: Amy Jussel http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2008/11/10/good-newsbad-news-in-girls-retail-stupidity-club-libby-lu-american-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-1609 Amy Jussel Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:47:24 +0000 http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2008/11/10/good-newsbad-news-in-girls-retail-stupidity-club-libby-lu-american-girl/#comment-1609 Oh for cripes' sakes...just when I was thinking we were making headway with CosmoGirl tanking AND Libby Lu shutting down...I thought it was a fiscal/market driven massive mindshift away from appearance-based consumptionist drivel...no such luck I guess. sigh. Thanks for sharing this one...I'll add it to the post I've got in the works on same for ATG week (which I'm thinking about extending since there's too much content!) Oh for cripes’ sakes…just when I was thinking we were making headway with CosmoGirl tanking AND Libby Lu shutting down…I thought it was a fiscal/market driven massive mindshift away from appearance-based consumptionist drivel…no such luck I guess. sigh. Thanks for sharing this one…I’ll add it to the post I’ve got in the works on same for ATG week (which I’m thinking about extending since there’s too much content!)

]]> By: Tracee Sioux http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2008/11/10/good-newsbad-news-in-girls-retail-stupidity-club-libby-lu-american-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-1592 Tracee Sioux Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:07:51 +0000 http://www.parentsforethicalmarketing.org/blog/2008/11/10/good-newsbad-news-in-girls-retail-stupidity-club-libby-lu-american-girl/#comment-1592 What's amazing to me is that mothers are not walking by that store and saying "that is the biggest rip off I've ever seen. People who do that are so stupid and loose with their money. " Instead they feel "guilty" that they can't afford to buy every hair-brained idiot thing marketers can think of to take their money. What’s amazing to me is that mothers are not walking by that store and saying “that is the biggest rip off I’ve ever seen. People who do that are so stupid and loose with their money. ”

Instead they feel “guilty” that they can’t afford to buy every hair-brained idiot thing marketers can think of to take their money.

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