I was walking down the aisle in my local Target store yesterday. Each of these stores have endcaps that have 'Clearance' signs on them, with items at reduced prices. I happened to see some legal pads on one of these Clearance racks.
I use quite a few legal pads in my work, so the opportunity to pick up some at cheaper than retail sounded good, so I took a look. Upon closer inspection, these three pad packs were labeled as 100% recycled material. 'Green' ... 'Buy these and save a tree' ... Well, ok ....
The clearance price on this three pad pack was three time more expensive than a normally priced 5 pack of standard legal pads. WTF?
Just another example of the green scam. Put 'recycled', 'eco-friendly', 'save the planet', or 'green' on anything and you can charge 2 to 3 times as much as a product that doesn't carry those magic words. This is decades old marketing at its best - take advantage of dim-witted consumers and their gullability to make a bunch of money.
This is what Algore does best - talk up a line of B.S. about climate change, and cash in big by investing in technologies/companies that he says are 'saving the planet'.
What a scam .....
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The same thing is true of all these dishwashing items, laundry detergents, household items.
If it doesn't do as much and has more water in it and says GREEN anywhere on the label, it costs more.
The price of laundry detergent is insane, even the off brands and generic brands. It's VERY annoying.
(You shop legal pads, I shop cleaning supplies.)
Rule number one... if it says eco- green or man-made global warming its a scam a lie a hoax. It amazes me that people don't possess the third grade intelligence level to realize that its all made up and isn't scientifically possible or even plausible.
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