Sukosaki » Shopping http://www.sukosaki.info Just Killing Time Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:13:08 +0000 en hourly 1 Mislabeled Toys at Walmart – Buy Made in America http://www.sukosaki.info/off-topic/mislabeled-toys-at-walmart-buy-made-in-america/ http://www.sukosaki.info/off-topic/mislabeled-toys-at-walmart-buy-made-in-america/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:02:44 +0000 sukosaki http://www.sukosaki.info/?p=1469 Today I went to Walmart to get some sort of beach toys for my fiances nephew.  I figured this was going to be an easy trip to get some cheap, almost disposable, toys for the little guy.  He is 6.  Once we finally got him away from the new Transformers and into the right aisle, he picked out a bucket of toys that would be fun to play with in the sand.

There was a shovel, bucket, sifter, fish template and a sand castle making unit.  Cool, all of the toys needed to keep the guy happy for a little while at least.  Then I noticed the “label” of the toys mentioned you could make your own dinasaur footprints with a specific template in the kit.  By the way, the kit was called a Dino Beach Bag, so I started to look for that part of the kit.  The little guy loves to learn about dinosaurs and things like that, so it would be totally cool if he could add his own footprints to the sand.

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Well, there wasn’t anything, I mean ANYTHING, dinosaur related in the “bag” (which was actually a basket with handles on it).  Isn’t that very strange?  I mean, I know it makes no difference other than it’s false advertising, or sort of deceptive, but I started to think of the reasons it might be that way on the product.

I came up with a couple reasons, and even though I don’t think they are valid, they might be possible.

  1. Maybe the manufacturer made a mistake
  2. Maybe the manufacturer uses the same exact labeling on every product that is similar thinking nobody will even notice
  3. Maybe that’s just the way it is.  The product was made in Mexico.  But maybe they think people shopping at Walmart will just BUY without actually looking.

Since I am a firm believer in keeping it real in the United States, it bothered me enough to take a photo and post about it online.  What reasons can you come up with?  And by the way, this wasn’t the only kit like it at the store.  All the remaining items like it on the shelf were labeled the same way.

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OldNavy.com is nice for shopping because you don’t have to have a store near you to enjoy the savings.  This week, today in fact, the store is having it’s famous $1 flip flop sale!  The flip flops aren’t all that expensive to begin with at $3,50, but there is something about a mega sale and summertime to really bring the people flocking to the malls with money in hand!

If you go to the website, you can sign up for coupons, newsletter, gift cards and more.  Don’t forget that if you are ordering more than $100 worth of merchandise with your Old Navy card, you get FREE shipping.

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