Green Washed by CIBC

by Lisa Rodgers on May 12, 2011

Green WashSo I was at the bank today using an ATM. I was finished withdrawing some cash, and the message on the screen said “Wanna win $500 buck by going paperless. I always like to do my part for mother earth. The screen daunted my to press here for more info, so I did.

To my amazement, the ATM’s printer started to fire up and out shot a useless piece of paper, tell me the website address of where I could go to go green.

Hmm, seems like strange marketing to me. To be honest CIBC offended me with this campaign.

In my last entry I wrote about the podcast interview with Tad Hargrave, he talked about companies that spend a lot of time green washing. Green washing is when a company spends more time and money pretending to be green, then actually being green. I’m pretty sure CIBC should has seen the snag in their marketing on this one.

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Lisa RodgersNo Gravatar May 12, 2011 at 8:42 pm

I have been green washed as well.

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AmberleeNo Gravatar August 12, 2011 at 7:04 am

Hahahaha. I’m not too birhgt today. Great post!

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