ADS-L Digest - 13 May 2008 to 14 May 2008 (#2008-136)

[sagehen]

JL wrote:

  Seems the girl sold 17,328 boxes of cookies. Astounding, but not
appalling.

  On the other hand, her methods of persuasion went unexplained....
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Back in the Pleistocene when I was a scout for a year, we were expected to
do our own selling, either door-to-door  or by putting in a stint at the
cookie booth in a downtown department store.  Nowadays, it is apparently
okay or maybe encouraged to recruit sales staff : getting mom & pop to push
cookies on their colleagues, e.g.   Perhaps this is seen as promoting the
entrepreneurial spirit.  Not appalling, perhaps, but hardly lovable.
AM

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