Last week I had the most expensive sandwich of my life! I went to this new restaurant in my building for 3 reasons 1: I wanted to try it, 2: it was in my building and 3: I'm lazy and it was in my building! I won't mention their name because I don't want to promote or bash this restaurant I'm just using it as an example. So back to my rich man sandwich, this restaurant promotes themselves as being "green" or "enviromentally friendly" by using "organic produce", "recycled materials" and "bio friendly energy" to power the restaurant (and by that they mean that they use sunlight for lighting the restaurant). I was proud of myself I'm getting a healthy sandwich and "helping" the environment. Well I get to the cash and the sandwich and a glass of tap water cost me over $10.00. ARE YOU KIDDING ME OVER $10.00 FOR A SANDWICH! I'm getting really frustrated with these companies that use catch phrases like environmentally friendly or eco-friendly or whatever friendly to a jack up the price! Why do I have to pay more to be environmentally friendly! Don't get fooled people some of these companies use these catch phrases just to raise prices to increase profit. They guilt us into a sense believing that we can make a difference and by paying more you're helping more and in some cases that's just a lie. It's marketing, really good marketing. If they trully believe that they want to help the environment these companies should sell the eco-friendly products at the same price as the regular non environmentally friendly products! But I'm not sure they want to cut into their profit margin to help the enviromnent or anyone else for that matter. If I had the choice to buy something that is good for the environment at the same price at the other brand I would easily make the right choice but why should I pay almost twice the price for the same thing that is enviromentally friendly made by the SAME company. Did you notice that a certain cleaning product company came out with "green line" of cleaning products however they still produce the non-green product and have those on sale while the eco stuff is twice the regular price!
Read the labels, be informed when making choices and don't get fooled by all the marketing out there! These companies pay millions of dollars a year in marketing to get our cash. Just be a wise shopper sometimes a green sticker is just a green sticker.
As for the sandwich it was good, but definitely not worth $11.00!
Talk at you later
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Marty in response to your post I have two comments. 1/ “If they trully believe that they want to help the environment these companies should sell the eco-friendly products at the same price as the regular non environmentally friendly products!” Marty I don’t think it fair to make such a generalized statement. I am not a manufacturer, but it is my understanding that it actually costs more to produce these “green” products, and that is why they cost more so they too can have a profit to live off of.
2/ “Read the labels, be informed when making choices” Marty, did you not read the price board before making your choice?
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