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1885.1 | Lick Your Chops | FSHQA1::RWAXMAN | | Tue Oct 18 1988 13:46 | 7 |
| I've never heard of Perform; however, at the Boston Cat Show I received
samples of a new food called "Lick Your Chops" (both canned and
dry). When I opened the can it smelled awful, but Chauncey and
Nikki loved it! I haven't seen it in stores yet but was amazed
that they ate it so fast. Knowing them, though, it was a novelty
and they'll probably snub their noses up at it the second time around.
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1885.2 | Status vs. Quality | CURIE::SADLER_TEMP | | Tue Oct 18 1988 14:15 | 10 |
| I saw this ad too. I have not tried the food, but its a neat marketing
concept. "We deliver fresh to your door". They will deliver on
a regular schedule a specified amount of food.
Just like the milkman! One more giant step for the 'distinctive'
cat owner who only bought food from a GRAIN store. I guess its
the maturity of the cat food market. It will be interesting to
see if it is really a superior product....
Cathy
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1885.3 | Gucci-Bonkers? | WEFXEM::COTE | It was a dark and stormy night... | Tue Oct 18 1988 14:27 | 6 |
| E-gad, yuppie cat food!
I can see the Volvo with spiral antenna pulling up now, the Reeboks
padding quietly up to the door, the rustle of a Burberry overcoat...
Edd
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1885.4 | | HUMOR::EPPES | Make 'em laugh | Tue Oct 18 1988 21:42 | 19 |
1885.5 | Me? Irked? nevuh.... | WEFXEM::COTE | It looks like Fruit Loops out there! | Tue Oct 18 1988 23:39 | 10 |
| No offense taken, it takes far more than that to set me off...
It wasn't the quality issue that prompted my remark, it was the
'delivered to your door' part. I pictured it as "just the thing
for the couple (single?) pursuing all the finer things life has
to offer yet still finding themselves without enough quality time
to share with their felines"
Edd (who cracks up everytime he sees an executive meeting on a rainy
day and everyone shows up wearing the same raincoat)
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1885.6 | | YOSMTE::JOHNSTON_SH | | Wed Oct 19 1988 00:37 | 19 |
| Ed, the yuppie reaction is the same one I had towards "Sheba" cat
food. Out here in Califonia it is a new brand, $.69 for a 3.5 once
tin (not canned, never canned!)
The TV ads call if the "brand for descriminating cat owners" (sounds
like they want us to eat the stuff!) and says that in Ancient Egypt
cats were treated like royalty and that if we all loved our cats
we would buy Sheba food. (very rough sketch of the content of the
commercial, I'm afraid)
I got a free can of it at a cat show. It looks just like a canned
ham when you open it up. It smelled like a canned ham, it had gel
like a canned ham, but it must not have tasted like a canned ham
because even Kalliste wouldn't touch it!
Do any of you see Sheba in your grocery stores or are we a test
market out here in California?
jo
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1885.7 | She still prefers chicken hearts and livers... | WEFXEM::COTE | It looks like Fruit Loops out there! | Wed Oct 19 1988 09:34 | 5 |
| I gave aja a 'tin' of Sheba once. She ate it. No big deal, she
ate Calo once when I first got her. Nothing discriminating about
her.
Edd
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1885.8 | Sheba available on East Coast | SWAT::COCHRANE | I never blink. | Wed Oct 19 1988 11:56 | 10 |
| To the extent that Niniane and Charm both adore canned (or "tinned"
I guess) food, to the extent that they inhale most varieties, and
to the extent that, being Siamese, it often returns at about roughly the
same speed as it went down, they liked Sheba well enough. It would
seem, from my experience, the formula goes something like:
The smell from the cat food when the can is opened is directly
proportional to how much your cat likes the food.
Mary-Michael
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1885.9 | Great Acting, Bad Commercial | SALEM::LEARD_K | | Wed Oct 19 1988 13:43 | 9 |
| Isn't this the commercial where the woman lifts the plate of cat
food up to her face and inhales (ack!) the odor, smiling dreamily,
before presenting it to her cat? As .8 points out, the smellier the
food, the more cats adore it. [Can you envision this scene being
filmed, over and over, while the actress tries to portray just the right
expression of ecstacy?]
Seems obvious to me that the marketing types who created this
commercial don't know cats!
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1885.10 | A word from a Bentley MK511 student :-) | INDEBT::TAUBENFELD | Ilza Egk | Wed Oct 19 1988 15:34 | 10 |
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Investment forcasters are saying the service industry is going
to grow significantly in the next few years. Delivery to your door
will be in great demand. It seems the makers of this product did
their marketing research. :-) Whether they made a better product
may not matter, if people think the service is more important.
Now if they could do my grocery shopping and deliver to my door...
:-)
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1885.11 | Door-to-Door Delivery sounds good to me!! | TOPDOC::TRACHMAN | E.T.'s ZhivagoCats....DTN: 264-8298 | Wed Oct 19 1988 15:52 | 2 |
| When they delivery, do they do windows, vacuum, scoop poop, and
comb hairs ?? Boy, I wish......
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