Haagen-Dazs hopes to scoop Bay Area market, including Marin

Haagen-Dazs ice cream can be found just about anywhere, from small corner markets located in inner cities to giant grocery stores in outlying suburbs, not to mention popping up in countless scenes of romantic angst depicted in movies.

[kitty]

Lets see
$3 for a one scoop cone or $4 to buy an entire pint in the store?

[Koalabear2525]

$4.00 a pint I would stop at that Ice cream shop on 4th street in San Rafael and I would get a smile and a thank you and please come back soon . you see I live in San Leandro, Ca you get a better deal at the ice cream shop on 4th street . maybe Buddyboy can tell you a better deal in town

[Jim]

There should be a tax on ice cream and other unhealthful foods.

[Jim]

It's the white man's fault.

[Koalabear2525]

this is for Jim /Novato so what are you bithing about ? if you are not white what are you red yellow black

[Jim]

Koalabear2525 wrote:

this is for Jim /Novato so what are you bithing [sic] about ? if you are not white what are you red yellow black

I'm Neopolitan

[FatFreddysCat]

More obesity and diabetes, just what we need.

[Koalabear2525]

all you fat cats have to do is get off your fat butt and use a bike and lap top or walk your butt off and use a lap top . you are sitting more than you should no wonder you are so fat take x lax tablet once every 2 hours and set on the pot and let go you may loose some of the far laird of your

[Jim]

Koalabear2525 wrote:

all you fat cats have to do is get off your fat butt and use a bike and lap top or walk your butt off and use a lap top. you are sitting more than you should no wonder you are so fat take x lax tablet once every 2 hours and set on the pot and let go you may loose some of the far laird [sic]of your

??

[HUH]

Koalabear2525 wrote:

this is for Jim /Novato so what are you bithing about ? if you are not white what are you red yellow black

'bithing'?

[HUH]

Koalabear2525 wrote:

all you fat cats have to do is get off your fat butt and use a bike and lap top or walk your butt off and use a lap top . you are sitting more than you should no wonder you are so fat take x lax tablet once every 2 hours and set on the pot and let go you may loose some of the far laird of your

'laird'?

[Joe]

Over priced foreign owned corporate slop for those that don't know better.

We prefer the scoop in Fairfax, it's organic, it's made from locally grown fruit and ingredients where possible.

Haagen Daz is made from whatever Mexican and imported cheap crap they can get. Most of the price pays for packaging, profits and stockholders take, not ingredients.

[Jaime]

Sorry Haggen-Dazs, I'm sticking with The Scoop! They'll never top The Scoop no matter how hard they try!

[Three Twins - The BEST]

Get these chumps outta the Bay Area Market...
Our best, I should say THE BEST, ice cream available is ORGANIC Three Twins!!!

[Buy Organic]

Bay Area residents, don't be fooled! Buy Organic. Highly recommend Three Twins ice cream in several locations and the Scoop in Fairfax. Locally owned, all organic ingredients, and far better tasting than the over-sugared, lard-filled stylings of Haagen Daaz!!

[Buy Organic]

How disappointing to see the IJ's fawning presumption that Marin is "ripe for the picking" for Haagen Daaz simply because the county is affluent. The county also cares about organic food! And locally owned businesses!

This article reads like marketing material for Haagen Daaz. Get with it IJ!

[The Nomad]

Haagen Dazs BLOWS! Ever since they shrunk their packaging from 16 oz to 14 oz containers, in order to increase profits and create more trash, I stopped buying it.

[Joe]

Hey, I'll have to try Three Twins, never been there.

We are people living in Marin, not a "market".

All you organic folks might like this great non-commercial website about the organic food industry.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/

See whose local and who is not in organic:

Independents: http://www.organicconsumers.org/Organic/Organ...

http://www.certifiedorganic.bc.ca/rcbtoa/serv...

"Despite the massive popularity and demand for certified organic products, retailers like Whole Foods Market, and wholesalers like United Natural Foods Inc., continue to push "natural" products at a premium price, while, in effect slowing down the growth of organics with their near market monopoly. In fact, the majority of products sold and distributed by Whole Foods Market and UNFI are not certified organic, but rather so-called "natural.” Meanwhile, independent and cooperative grocers often offer more certified organic products at competitive prices…. However, the annual $50 billion natural food and products industry is threatening to undermine the organic movement by flooding the marketplace with conventional products greenwashed with “natural” labeling. "Natural," in the overwhelming majority of cases, translates to "conventional-with-a-gree n-veneer." Natural products are routinely produced using pesticides, chemical fertilizer, hormones, genetic engineering, and sewage sludge. "Natural","all- natural," and "sustainable," products in most cases are neither backed up by rules and regulations, nor a Third Party certifier. These are label claims that are neither policed nor monitored."

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/camp...

[Rational approach]

Hey, dreamers, your over-indulged, spoiled children will buy tons of this stuff. That's why they will sell it at Northgate and the Village at CM.

(Checked out "Woody's" in Strawberry lately? His "hidden in the back" location has turned into a gold mine as the kids always remember it but their parents don't.)

Larkspur Landing, in yet another "makeover" will try to lure in a franchisee, but the experienced H-D franchisees will pass on that location.

Finally, tourists, eager to buy something to eat from a place that looks squeaky clean and modern, will load up on the stuff in Sausalito, as long as they don't try to go into waterfront space, where "chain" stores have a problem. But next to Starbucks would work....

That's my call in the pool for where H-D will end up in Marin. Who else has ideas?

(And all you "it's horrible--prohibit it" folks: Get a life and let other people choose which ice cream they buy, OK? Sheesh. Worry about something that matters, like tobacco.)

[Jim]

We need to find away to raise taxes to take care of the health problems from ice cream caused by the corporation.
It is the migrants that work on the farms to take care of the cows and pick the fruit.