Foodstuff Marketing – Part 2

Foodstuff Marketing – Part 2

Updated follow-up to Part 1 about cereal games: Over the years I have tweeted and posted multiple complaints about the garbage in food that’s advertised as healthy. Part 1 originally linked to a Kellogg’s Cereal landing page encouraging activity (no longer...
Lucky Charms: Wireless Power to Fly – Part 1

Lucky Charms: Wireless Power to Fly – Part 1

Lucky Charms was a favorite cereal of my childhood. It’s the less spooky vanilla version of Count Chocula, one of General Mills’s monster-themed breakfast cereals which were first released in 1971 with the strawberry-flavored Franken Berry. Count Chocula...
Shining Stars Marketing by Kroger

Shining Stars Marketing by Kroger

About a year ago, I discovered a Kroger brand cereal called Shining Stars. This cereal is to the breakfast aisle as Hello Dolly is to WordPress plugins. (The hope of a generation, if you will.) The mascots of the Lucky Charms-esque cherry vanilla flavored oat cereal...