Nestle Puts GPS Devices Inside Candy Bars To Track Winning Customers.

Run_to_da_hills

"Nestle launched the “We Will Find You” campaign in the United Kingdom where GPS tracking devices were placed inside six candy bars. Once the winning candy bar wrapper is opened, the tracking device will go off and Nestle officials will be able to find the exact location of the customer".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2Lfgh1c4Q

“This will alert a secret control room who will scramble a crack team of highly trained individuals,” the commercial states. “They will board a helicopter, find the special bar and give the owner 10,000 pounds.

What would happen if someone swallowed the device.

http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/09/26/nestle-puts-gps-devices-inside-candy-bars-to-track-winning-customers/

Gumbi

There be a conspiracy to be found here, RTDH. There always is.

Jesus Shaves

Sure how else would they find them?

Cookie_Monster

what if they open it on an airplane and it screws the computers, it'll be 911 times a thousand!!!

Madam Marie

Eh, no they didn't.

It's just a code inside the wrapper with coordinates that you type into their website.

Tis' a gimmick, to fool the gullible .. like me, I bought two.

The King of Moo

Publicly telling people that the GPS trackers/codes/whatever are in the wrappers kind of ruins the whole "EVIL CORPORATION'S VAST CONSPIRACY TO TRACK YOU FOR NO APPARENTLY USEFUL REASON" thing, doesn't it?

shopaholic01

I hope the 'highly trained individuals' are oompa loompas!

Run_to_da_hills

Madam Marie wrote: »

Eh, no they didn't.

It's just a code inside the wrapper with coordinates that you type into their website.

Tis' a gimmick, to fool the gullible .. like me, I bought two.

So misleading advertising. :mad:

Must get on to the advertising standards, I was expecting a physical device that would arm itself on as soon as the wrapper was opened.

token101

It must get really boring to look for conspiracy theories in everything, only to be proved wrong every single time. Go back to the guitar Jim.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

So misleading advertising. :mad:

Must get on to the advertising standards, I was expecting a physical device that would arm itself on as soon as the wrapper was opened.

We all know what you were expecting.

flash1080

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

what if they open it on an airplane and it screws the computers, it'll be 911 times a thousand!!!

911,000!!!!!!

Pottler

BOI have a similar campaign at the mo, aimed more at mortgagees that bunked off to Aus. No sugary snacks but much the same idea only I think you then give them the 10k.

Miguel_Sanchez

Anyone else think it's pretty funny how Run to Da Hills was taken in hook line and sinker by an advertisement? Especially considering how much he prides himself on seeing behind the lies that The Man peddles. :-)

Red Hand

"Even when I knew it wasn't the jews, that it was the arabs, I knew that it was really the jews".

Oh, this isn't the conspiracy forum? :pac:

Duggy747

Fooled by the advert?

IvySlayer

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

what if they open it on an airplane and it screws the computers, it'll be 911 times a thousand!!!

Oh my god...that's 911,000!!

ArmaniJeanss

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

So misleading advertising. :mad:

Must get on to the advertising standards, I was expecting a physical device that would arm itself on as soon as the wrapper was opened.

So now you are complaining that the big corporations aren't giving you GPS tracking devices and spying on your every movement via space sattelites.
Jebus wept.

keith16

IvySlayer wrote: »

Oh my god...that's 911,000!!

You mean the 9th of Novemberthousand???

say_who_now?

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

So misleading advertising. :mad:

Must get on to the advertising standards, I was expecting a physical device that would arm itself on as soon as the wrapper was opened.

So now you are complaining that the big corporations aren't giving you GPS tracking devices and spying on your every movement via space sattelites.
Jebus wept.

RTDH wanted a "happy ending" when he ripped open the wrapper- a squadron of black ops guys descending on his location! Imagine all the tin foil he could've bought with that €10k!

Calibos

We all know that chocolate is like sex to a lot of women...
and sex is the work of Satan...
Satan is the antichrist...
and the antichrist is President Obama and he is a herald for the end times...

Therefore I blame Obama for this fiendish plot to track us with chocolate.

If only you sheeple could connect the dots like me.

humbert

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Anyone else think it's pretty funny how Run to Da Hills was taken in hook line and sinker by an advertisement? Especially considering how much he prides himself on seeing behind the lies that The Man peddles. :-)

I think the foremost requirement to be a conspiracy theorist is to be hugely gullible.

Kess73

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Anyone else think it's pretty funny how Run to Da Hills was taken in hook line and sinker by an advertisement? Especially considering how much he prides himself on seeing behind the lies that The Man peddles. :-)

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man

say_who_now?

Calibos wrote: »

We all know that chocolate is like sex to a lot of women...
and sex is the work of Satan...
Satan is the antichrist...
and the antichrist is President Obama and he is a herald for the end times...

Therefore I blame Obama for this fiendish plot to track us with chocolate.

If only you sheeple could connect the dots like me.

But Obama is a beautiful chocolate man!

ejmaztec

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

So misleading advertising. :mad:

Must get on to the advertising standards, I was expecting a physical device that would arm itself on as soon as the wrapper was opened.

It's a conspiracy, they're out to get you.:p

Peetrik

10,000 pounds, very nice.

They probably have that money to give away because of how in Africa in the 80's, Nestle got infants hooked on free baby formula in hospitals (paying the staff bonuses to promote the product) and then once the mother stops producing their own milk they are charged a premium for it.

Or maybe they had it left over from the 00's when they were demanding $6m from Ethiopia during its worst famine in decades.

I don't buy or eat anything made by Nestle or its subsidiaries personally.

Fizman

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

What would happen if someone swallowed the device.

I guess you could say..............they'd be sh1t out of luck.

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k156/all-powerful-oz/yeahhh.jpg

FanadMan

RTTH.....any word if they are gonna up your meds? Might take a few weeks of them but inanimate things will eventually stop talking to you. Either that or go and ask your doctor for just a little help

kincsem

Unbereabable

Run_to_da_hills

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Anyone else think it's pretty funny how Run to Da Hills was taken in hook line and sinker by an advertisement? Especially considering how much he prides himself on seeing behind the lies that The Man peddles. :-)

BTW according reports it is an actual GPS device that is activated once a tab is removed. (There are even several disclaimers on the promotion just in case it backfires)

I would consider this as a clever way from multinationals to appeal to the greed in people so as to promote and make corporate GPS tracking and locating people harmless and acceptable.

humbert wrote: »

I think the foremost requirement to be a conspiracy theorist is to be hugely gullible.

Not so Gullible as those that soak in what's spewed out in the main stream media.

Feathers

Madam Marie wrote: »

Eh, no they didn't.

It's just a code inside the wrapper with coordinates that you type into their website.

Tis' a gimmick, to fool the gullible .. like me, I bought two.

But surely they'd only put the GPS chip on the winning ones, so you wouldn't know if it was true or not unless you win.

Janedoe10

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

So misleading advertising. :mad:

Must get on to the advertising standards, I was expecting a physical device that would arm itself on as soon as the wrapper was opened.

Please try and accept the marketing promotion for what it is -- a gimmick that the gullible will (who could that be) actually think that they will be the ONE that gets it .

Why don't u use this as a social experiment and report back when u are "lucky" enough to get one of the wonka devices .
Pictures too please - won't believe it otherwise.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2209206/Nestle-hides-GPS-chips-KitKat-bars-hand-suitcase-cash.htm

Remmy

Interesting factoid, these 'devices' taste vaguely of cinnamon

Andy-Pandy

The could stick the tracking device up my hole for 10k

humbert

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Not so Gullible as those that soak in what's spewed out in the main stream media.

Actually much more gullible as conspiracy theories are much less plausible. There is a third choice available to thinking people which is to be sceptical of both.

Fr_Dougal

Massive donkey balls, that's what it is; big hairy ones.