MOOO on You, General Mills!

When Sam was just a wee little fellow and first started at day care, Sherry said to me, "You guys eat Cheerios, don't you? Can you save the box top coupons for me? Sam's school gets money for them." Not a problem. For six or more years, we've saved a boatload of Box Tops for Education and the day care has benefited. I later learned that virtually all schools participate in this program, and I'll be saving box tops "box tops" for ever more.

Which leads me to the point of this COW* post.

At some point the coupons moved from the top of the box to the front of the box. This particular illustration shows the coupon relatively near to the top, but still it requires an extra effort to remove it. It was a simpler process when it really was a box top. 

This morning's box had not one but two "box tops" on the front. But they weren't anywhere near the top. They were down about four inches from the bottom of the box. Requiring more time and effort to remove them. I wish I would have taken a photo, but I was too cranky.

Obviously General Mills wants to be seen as generous and education-minded, providing money in return for "box tops." But they want to make it annoyingly tedious for a person to remove the "box tops" from the boxes.

Hey, General Mills! How about putting the box tops back on the tops of the boxes? Or else changing what they are called to something more accurate? Like "Difficult To Retrieve Coupons for Education"?

Moooooooo!





*Cranky Old Woman