Do Bloggers Mislead?

OK, call me naive. I thought bloggers came up with original material. Or at least ADMITTED when they were promoting a product because someone had sent them samples.

A recent google search on crates pulled up 3 bloggers who were interviewed on TV extolling the virtues of THE EXACT SAME FIVE PRODUCTS that they came up with (one item was my competitors' inferior crates). Coincidence? Or "paid for praise"?

The first interview I saw was in Indianapolis, then Boston, then Kansas City. The blogger ladies were saying to the TV hosts that they found these 5 IDENTICAL items ESSENTIAL to tailgating. One lady barely knew how to open and shut the crate and she'd even left the sticker on it!

At least when Sofia Vergara talks about Covergirl you know she's getting paid. What's up with these blogger ladies??? Do they jump in bed with anyone with deep pockets who's willing to send them a promo kit of the same 5 products and then ACT like they came up with these "5 unique items for tailgating" all on their own?"

And what about the TV stations? Do they have any idea they're being duped or are they in on it? When a couple local hosts here were going on and on about a story on how dirty reusable bags get and possible e coli and what could they do about it? Emails and phone calls by me and others telling about CRESBI crates as the answer did not a story make! Or perhaps we weren't PAYING enough?

I did have a couple blogger ladies review my products that I sent to them for free or paid a small fee for their time to review it (they didn't have to talk about it unless they liked it). Read them at: https://www.cresbicrate.com/news.  They clearly stated this in their blog.  Another time I tried to contact a blogger she referred me to a "mommy blogger agent" who - for a fee - could get my info out there to all the mom bloggers instantly.  

Deceptive? Misleading?  Or the new "business as usual".

Just be careful what you read and believe!

And BTW - CRESBI crates are the BEST crates for tailgating or anything else!

How to Avoid Germs at the Grocery

Most bags are not fabric but plastic.

Ebola in the US. From one guy infected in Dallas, Texas to a possible 100 in a just a few days.

It's scary to think how quickly germs spread and how quickly something like the ebola virus could alter our lives here in America forever.

I've never been a germaphobe but I started thinking about it a couple years ago when a middle-aged grocery checker sneezed INTO HIS HAND in the middle of grabbing each of my items to run across his scanner. At that point I thought there had to be a better way, especially at the grocery where such a large cross section of humanity congregates with various levels of hygiene who subsequently touch all the dang stuff. And those sanitary wipes at the entrance?  Well, they're only effective if you let the surface totally dry before putting your hands on whatever you just cleaned and even then they may be encouraging the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria superbugs. Super bugs?! Do you want super bugs?!? Or America do you want a better way?

Then I noticed the produce guys.

Instead of paper, plastic or cheap imported reusable bags, why didn't we shop with collapsible bins like the produce guys use?  We could bring our own bins into the store!  We could set them in our carts so they stack neatly - and keep our stuff OFF the floor of the cart where some kid with their dirty shoes was just jumping around! We could wipe them down with hot water and bleach so they're free from any disease-causing E. coli bacteria! We could then collapse them when we're done! Perfect!

But how to get more than one collapsible crate into the store?  And if they don't nest like the store's basket with solid handles, what do you do about the cheap plastic handles most of them come with? And then, in less time than it took to say BAN PLASTIC BAGS (which would include reusable ones since that's what they are - yep, a nonwoven polypropylene is still POLYPROPYLENE), my solution was born: CRESBI Crates!  Yeah, its a weird name. But catchy, huh?  And CRESBI crate systems are S-W-E-E-T and hard to resist once you try one, like Krispy Kreme Donuts but without the calories.

And CRESBI, unlike SPANX, actually stands for something: the Collapsible Reusable Environmentally-friendly Stackable Box Idea. So there. Instead of flimsy plastic handles, you get a strong, made-in-America strap that can be attached on the sides or on top for hands-free action. Instead of a wad of dirty, unequally-sized reusable bags stuffed in a master dirty bag (face it - when was the last time you washed yours?) you bring in your choice of systems containing the number of collapsible crates that match your shopping patterns. And instead of handling all of your items twenty million times, you place them in your open crates once as you shop, barcodes up and have the checker scan it all right in the crates!

Since most foods are mass-produced and packaged, now its only me and the stock boy who are placing our mitts on that can of tuna fish.  Like abstinence prevents pregnancy, not touching a source of germs prevents getting those particular germs every time its tried. Stay healthy, America! Get a CRESBI Crate system!

Just sayin'.