by Rebecca A. Fratzke
Buycotts are creating positive changes in the business world.
Today, businesses are facing many
challenges. They must stay
afloat during hard economic times while still providing good service and products. In addition, they try to keep their companies
environmentally _(1)_ and globally
involved. Clearly, _(2)_ all of these goals is not an easy task. It is usually the good
deeds and environmentally friendly advances that get the least amount of _(3)_. The only solution to this problem may seem to be in the hands of the sellers. However, Brent Schulkin decided to put the solution into the hands of the buyers and called it Carrotmob.
Carrotmobbing, which
is derived from the positive part of the
idiom carrot and _(4)_, is when a large group of buyers
rewards a business
for its
commitment to becoming more
socially responsible. Schulkin's first Carrotmob was in 2008 in San Francisco, California. He challenged 23 owners in the area to _(5)_ their convenience stores in environmentally friendly ways and promised to bring a
mob of shoppers to the one that did the most. The one that
pledged the largest amount of that day's
earnings on _(6)_ their store would win the mob's sales. A pledge of 22 percent got the winning store US$9,200 in
revenue, positive
recognition, and a new _(7)_ lighting system.
Schulkin
points out that in the past,
boycotts, which stopped people from
purchasing from or using a business, created change. His Carrotmob movement
employs a _(8)_ boycott called a buycott. By using consumer
activism, Carrotmobs _(9)_ businesses to listen to their demands while also giving them the
means to make the changes. It's a _(10)_ situation that leaves both sides smiling. It seems very
appropriate that a concept to create positive changes in the world is doing so through the power of positive action.
說明:請依文意在所提供的 (A) 到 (L) 12 個選項中,選出最適當的10 個選項。
(A) stick (B) notify (C) achieving (D) win-win (E) aware (F) downloading (G) reverse (H) attention (I) modify (J) encourage(K) upgrading (L) energy-efficient
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