Posts Tagged 'shoes'

TOMS Shoes: Good Marketing – Bad Aid

Monday, October 25th, 2010

Despite all that I’ve written about the problems caused by donating goods overseas, the most frequent question I get from readers is what do I think about TOMS Shoes. I don’t know whether they’re uncertain because TOMS uses the Buy…

Enough with the shoe donations

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Every time I turn around another movie star or charitable event is collecting shoes to send to disaster zones or developing countries. Just today I was reading a frivolous article about Oscar gift bags (and no I don’t…