Frito Lay features anti-gunner on bags.

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Just got off the phone with Frito Lays customer service operator. She was very nice and polite and only tried to back pedal a wee bit on the whole "we support him taking action, not necessarily his view points". She did seem rather concerned about the ammount of calls they have been receiving on the subject. Seemed even more concerned when I pointed out that a lot of soldiers enjoy Frito Lays products at PX's and in care packages from home; these same soldiers enjoy their RKBA and would frown upon this type of marketing. She also inquired as to what area of the country I was calling from, found this interesting.
 
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I just spoke with the folks on the Frito-Lay toll free phone line (1-800-352-4477) and politely told them that I wouldn't be using their products because they provided a forum for Theo Milonopoulos to promote his anti Second Amendment message.

I will say that it took 3 attempts to get through to them and that the person on the other end said that I wasn't the first person she'd spoken to today about this.

It is essential that we be polite to the folks who answer the phone, that we clearly say that Frito-Lay is providing a forum for this controversial political position by giving space on their products and that we won't be buying their products until the bags are withdrawn.
 
Frito-Lay has had a no firearms policy in the work place for some time now. Frito-Lay also went "green" this year and is actively courting the environmentally conscious consumer. Pepsi Co. has a new CEO (Indra Nayi) that has angered many by making left of center political comments. She appears to be more flamboyant then I would like it her to be. I'm not sure if it represents a new official activism on the part of the company but It sure looks like it.

http://www.pepsico.com/images/flash/74588_E_Print.pdf

As an employee, I would recommend that you call the 800 # that is printed on the bag and let them know your feelings. I would also go to the Frito-Lay web site and the Pepsi Co. web site and say so in an email. They will listen if enough of us chime in. We got a public apology from Nayi once for remarks she made at a graduation speech. We could do it again. The company's goal is to sell snack food so they can earn a good return for their share holders. They must be made aware that they are going about it the wrong way....

http://www.frito-lay.com/fl/flstore/cgi-bin/contact_us.htm

http://www.pepsico.com/PEP_ContactUs/index.cfm
 
First, I would like to strongly reiterate what hso and others have said in regards to being professional, patient, and polite.

Unruliness gets you nowhere but backwards with the big companies.

With that being said, I just got off the phone with several very senior executives at Frito-Lay, with whom I used to work with when I was in New York on their account. Frito-Lay is headquartered in Legacy Park (Plano) north of Dallas, which is where I'm at these days.

Believe me, they are taking the calls and feedback very serious, but . . . there hasn't been enough calls.

I assured my old friends that I was pretty representive of the average gun-owner who is sick and tired of being treated like a second-class citizen and being told my civil and constitutional rights are not as important as some twenty-year-old's "feelings."

Also jokingly threatened to come out of retirement and go to work for Pringles.

After those phone calls, I called an extremely senior member of Pepsi's marketing team. I reminded this person, who've I've known for well over a decade, that if PEPSI THEMSELVES didn't step in, it would only be a matter of time, very short time, before the older among us began remembering Pepsi's very strong anti-gun positions and very generous donations to the likes of Sarah Brady--donations that were both direct and then through a series of backdoors.

I then called up some old members of the team and asked them to do the same thing. I hired no one who was openly anti-Second Amendment, and everyone at both shops knew my history with the NRA's agency and the work I did for them. They are as upset about this as I am--a lot of very good work we did for Frito could easily be flushed right down the toilet with bonehead moves like putting Theo on their bags.

Folks, apathy is our collective worst enemy. I invested a little under 90 minutes making phone calls to ranking executives I know and know well. I have the time, now that I'm semi-retired and moving at a lot slower pace.

A letter might take you ten or fifteen minutes to write, address and then stamp. Calling the toll-free number takes even less time.

They're our rights. If we do not defend them, and do so vigorously, then who will?

Jeff
 
call made.
the young lady was polite, but she sounded a bit breathless, as if she had already heard this complaint and explained the company stance many, many times today.
keep hittin' 'em!
 
I don't in the least want a kid to take any kind of action. I don't support at all a kid taking passionate action to deny me my rights. I don't applaud it nor do I support his attitude or desire to do something. I support his rights to do it, of course, but he is plain wrong. It's like someone being glad if a man sticks to his principles. That is absurd. A principled man may be wonderful. But he might also be a strong supporter of National Socialism. Should I then be proud when he makes racial epithets because he sticks to his principles?

This kid ignorantly went the wrong direction, and his actions are not to be lauded. I'd rather he kept playing the X-Box than attack my rights. Some folks should stay apathetic and some actions are not to be applauded.

Ash
 
I do not think it is proper for them to be giving face time to someone who is pushing a political agenda either way. Like I said what this kid is doing can hardly be classified as community service. Its just the same as putting a kid on there for be a pro-life, or pro-choice advocate, which they would never do and have no business doing so. And I do believe as a consumer I have business telling them what I feel is acceptable and not acceptable for them to be doing. Thats the beauty of Free market.
 
Made my call. If this kid got tired of gang violence and decided that racial purity was the only way to clean up our cities and so lobbied for segregation and went to Washington to pressure Senators to send all non-white races out of the country, I very seriously doubt they would have been so quick to recognize his efforts.

Taking action is NOT necessarily a good thing, just as reform is NOT necessarily a good thing.

I told them that, given the choice between Birmingham, Alabama's Golden Flake and their products, which I really can find little difference in (except that Baconettes Pork Rinds taste like cardboard, whereas Louisiana Hot Sauce Flavored Golden Flake Pork Rinds really hit the spot), I would choose to send my money to the company which did not actively support a person whose efforts are to deny me my rights while having no effect on criminals.

Ash
 
And I only support the right of people to speak about things I agree with!

Pro-gunners need to get off their high horse. If you take this sort of tact when speaking to antis, then you'll never change a mind.

Settle down. He's not trying to get an injunction from a judge to prevent Frito-Lay from supporting an anti-gun position.

He's simply saying he's not going to support them by buying their products, and the reason doesn't matter.
 
I've streamlined this thread to keep it more in the vein of a place to organize activism in response to Frito-Lay's unfortunate decision to support an organization that calls for the outright prohibition of firearms ownership.

Use this thread as a place to post about the activism you've undertaken in making your voice heard to Frito-Lay.

If you want to debate the relative merits of whether an organization can or cannot print whatever it likes on its packaging, go discuss it somewhere else.
 
Oh NOOOOOOO!!! now the maker of the greatest chip ever (Doritos) has to jump on the "guns have minds of their own and must be kept out of the hands of law abiding citizens" band wagon :mad: Oh well, they were making me fat anyway ;)
 
I wonder if they would put an anti-obesity activist whos' mission it was to stamp out potato chips on one of their bags? :)
 
I don't care for healthy food. My general policy is that all my food be dead upon consumption, but all things in moderation is my rule.

Ash
 
My general policy is that all my food be dead upon consumption

But do you eat yogurt? They got live cultures. LOL:D

Sorry to digress, but I just wanted to crack a little joke.
 
I wonder how many people have found themselves caught in the middle of armed bank robberies or gas station hold-ups hoping that someone will "Do some thing".
 
I love Fritos corn chips, what a shame, now I'll have to stop eating them.
 
Oh, I was merely being dry deadpan...

No offense was taken. Indeed, it was taken in the spirit it was offered.

Ash
 
I think

It is important to always present a "positive" image when you represent a cause. Don't call up and start an angry rant.

We might thank Frito for honoring someone in the community, but remind them that their ad campaign might have a negative impact on our Constitutional Right to keep and bear arms.

When a company employee reports our calls and letters, it is important that they see us as respectful of people, but insistent on rational issues that are clearly identified. :)

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