No More Free Samples at Ghirardelli

Kman101

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Cracks me up that this thread got so much traction over something so silly. Even worse that some people made this out to be a Disney policy change vs Ghirardelli themselves.

Maybe because it wasn’t clear from the initial report whose decision this was. Heaven forbid questions are asked. And it’s a company chasing pennies. A free sample is not going to break them and taking it away won’t force anyone to buy the chocolate. At least they changed their mind. It’s the principle of it.
 

peter11435

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Maybe because it wasn’t clear from the initial report whose decision this was. Heaven forbid questions are asked. And it’s a company chasing pennies. A free sample is not going to break them and taking it away won’t force anyone to buy the chocolate. At least they changed their mind. It’s the principle of it.
Why would anyone think that Disney would have forced another company to stop giving out samples? It wouldn’t be Disney’s decision. It’s not their company, not their store, not their employees, and not their chocolate. Not to mention from the initial report it was clear that this was all Ghirardelli locations.

And again, free samples are great. However if they are giving out more free chocolate than they are selling... well?

You shouldn’t expect or feel entitled to anything free. It’s the principle of it.
 
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homerdance

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i was at the chicago (north michigan ave) store and there was no free samples in Jan either. But they only had 3 people working at that store when we stopped.
 

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These are the current samples
 

TrainsOfDisney

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A company can choose to give away samples or not, but when you’ve built up your brand as offering free samples as a policy at your stores it’s a pretty major decision to reverse course. In the business world the samples should be take out of the marketing budget, cause that’s what it really is. Not just marketing the product being sampled, but also marketing the brand and “store experience” as a whole.
 

MarkTwain

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I was at the Disney Springs location 2 weeks ago and still got handed the peppermint bark chocolate. It was pretty clearly Christmas - themed chocolate, so maybe they're just getting rid of all their leftover samples, but at least they have some for now.
 

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