I don't know what that coupon did to deserve 26 years, but kudos to the reporter.

I was going to say something snarky, but it's actually a nice story.

To honor the coupon was to pay homage to a tradition of customer service that began in 1968. Wilcoxson's, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Can someone help me out with that math?

Ohhhh... it was an advertising gimmick they started, and a cool idea at that. Never mind.

That's how you run a successful business. Great story.

Wilcoxson's ice cream.

There's a joke in there somewhere.

free publicity and good will for a scoop of ice cream? thats just good business.

The real story is the hoarder who kept a coupon for 26 years

NewportBarGuy: To honor the coupon was to pay homage to a tradition of customer service that began in 1968. Wilcoxson's, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Can someone help me out with that math?

For the first 56 years, they had no customer service.

Quantum Apostrophe: NewportBarGuy: To honor the coupon was to pay homage to a tradition of customer service that began in 1968. Wilcoxson's, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Can someone help me out with that math?

For the first 56 years, they had no customer service.

No scoop for you!

Good headline, smitty.

Quantum Apostrophe

NewportBarGuy: To honor the coupon was to pay homage to a tradition of customer service that began in 1968. Wilcoxson's, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Can someone help me out with that math?

For the first 56 years, they had no customer service.


"Free kick to the 'nads with every purchase!"


The Forgurt contains potassium benzoate.

Cookie crumb in my eyes....

Frogurt.

I fial.

NewportBarGuy: To honor the coupon was to pay homage to a tradition of customer service that began in 1968. Wilcoxson's, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Can someone help me out with that math?

The concept of customer service wasn't introduced until later in their run, before 1968 when you would go in and say you'd like a scoop of Rocky Road in a waffle cone they would say "Wouldn't we all?" and spit in your face.

Turns out she has another coupon marking the birth of her oldest son, Ryan, on Dec. 24, 1980. Now 32, Ryan lives near Bozeman and has four children and a fifth on the way.

There are all kinds of incorrect math in this article.

faaaaa.
I bring my "buy 5, next one free" coffee card to the quik-e-mart yesterday, all punched out and I am expecting my freebie.
Clerk say "we no honor those no more"
Me: "since when"
Clerk: "yesterday..new owners"
I tried to argue for a minute, saw I was getting nowhere. So, smiling, I left my coffee on the counter, went back to the coffee station, poured 5 more cups of coffee and took them all to the counter and left.

That'll teach him.

stacye: Turns out she has another coupon marking the birth of her oldest son, Ryan, on Dec. 24, 1980. Now 32, Ryan lives near Bozeman and has four children and a fifth on the way.

There are all kinds of incorrect math in this article.

Um... 1980 was 32 years ago.

exhibit A.
"They can redeem the coupon for a 5-quart pail of vanilla or two 2½ gallon containers of any flavor."

exhibit B.
"Turns out she has another coupon marking the birth of her oldest son, Ryan, on Dec. 24, 1980. Now 32, Ryan lives near Bozeman..."


Don't worry, Snowflake, getting a D in maths isn't a big deal, you can still be anything you want because you're so talented!

Aw, now I want some ice cream! They have chocolate peanut butter cup today at the frozen custard place down the street, nom.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: stacye: Turns out she has another coupon marking the birth of her oldest son, Ryan, on Dec. 24, 1980. Now 32, Ryan lives near Bozeman and has four children and a fifth on the way.

There are all kinds of incorrect math in this article.

Um... 1980 was 32 years ago.

Well... Dec 1980 was 31 years ago. 32 years up to March 18th

Englebert Slaptyback: Quantum Apostrophe

NewportBarGuy: To honor the coupon was to pay homage to a tradition of customer service that began in 1968. Wilcoxson's, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Can someone help me out with that math?

For the first 56 years, they had no customer service.


"Free kick to the 'nads with every purchase!"


The Forgurt contains potassium benzoate.

That's bad

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: stacye: Turns out she has another coupon marking the birth of her oldest son, Ryan, on Dec. 24, 1980. Now 32, Ryan lives near Bozeman and has four children and a fifth on the way.

There are all kinds of incorrect math in this article.

Um... 1980 was 32 years ago.

If he was born on Dec. 24th 1980, he doesn't turn 32 for another 9 months.

Regardless, it's nice to see a company that puts people ahead of profits. Those idiots on Wall Street would do well to take some notes.

I found a 20-year old Dairy Queen coupon for a free soft cone in an old book once, I guess I had used it as a bookmark. They actually accepted it even though it expired before any of the employees had even been born. Classy stuff like that turns me into a return customer.

Trance750: Regardless, it's nice to see a company that puts people ahead of profits. Those idiots on Wall Street would do well to take some notes.

Why would a company in our capitalist system put people ahead of profits? That's not how the system works.

farkityfarker: Trance750: Regardless, it's nice to see a company that puts people ahead of profits. Those idiots on Wall Street would do well to take some notes.

Why would a company in our capitalist system put people ahead of profits? That's not how the system works.

No, they were thinking about future profits. Build a loyal customer base with gimmicks like this and you are setting yourself up for a long and successful company future. If more people thought of future profits we'd be a lot better off. Investing in today for tomorrow is the way forward but embraced by few.

farkityfarker: Trance750: Regardless, it's nice to see a company that puts people ahead of profits. Those idiots on Wall Street would do well to take some notes.

Why would a company in our capitalist system put people ahead of profits? That's not how the system works.

Sometimes, when you put people ahead of profits, it ends up being more profitable than putting profits ahead of profits.

"I save everything," Ruffatto said with a laugh. "It's just so much fun when you find old things. They are just such treasures."




*shiver*

I had a Baskin Robbins coupon that I tried to use "Buy one waffle cone get another waffle cone free". Turns out it was for the cone itself, ice cream was extra...LOL, the m-farkers

cretinbob: I was going to say something snarky, but it's actually a nice story.

Nice work, Wilcoxson's Ice Cream, way to get young mothers and children started on this obesity thing right off the bat.

/one must dig deep to find snark on a story like this

the_immoral_minority: I had a Baskin Robbins coupon that I tried to use "Buy one waffle cone get another waffle cone free". Turns out it was for the cone itself, ice cream was extra...LOL, the m-farkers

Baskin Robbins is a master troll I see.

Very cool

Not the apotheosis of cool but close.

Reading something like this would encourage me to shop with a business.

the_immoral_minority: I had a Baskin Robbins coupon that I tried to use "Buy one waffle cone get another waffle cone free". Turns out it was for the cone itself, ice cream was extra...LOL, the m-farkers

Sounds like one of their typical marketing ploys

Marcintosh: "I save everything," Ruffatto said with a laugh. "It's just so much fun when you find old things. They are just such treasures."

Yeah, I have a buddy who runs a cleaning company. I was thinking hoarder too. The worst job I ever heard him talk about was the one with human excrement everywhere. Especially the couch where it appeared someone just sat there for years and crapped on it. There was a trail of poo along the corridor through the house between the mountains of accumulated garbage.

Sounded like an awesome way to earn a living.

Must be a slow news day,

angryjd: Must be a slow news day,

It's just filler for their Sundae Edition.

Similar thing happened to my wife when she was in high school. Her father had been an FM radio DJ way back in the day and had these ancient promotional tickets for Magic Mountain (an amusement park in California). My wife and two of her friends went to the park and tried the tickets, just for shiats and giggles, and the park accepted them even though they were at least fifteen years old and had been issued by the previous owners.

The thing about companies honoring these old coupons and tickets is that it is a cheap and emotionally satisfying (at least in the customer's eyes) way of generating brand loyalty.

I collect old sci-fi and horror pulp magazines, and quite often there'd be tear-out cards or ads in them that made me wonder...

I think if I ever hit the lottery, I'd try every one of them out just to see the responses.

Also, I wonder if it's still possible to get a $14 dollar monkey.

Forgot_my_password_again: free publicity and good will for a scoop of ice cream? thats just good business.

The real story is the hoarder who kept a coupon for 26 years

Not a scoop of ice cream, but a gallon. That's what the coupon was good for.

Chicken.... gave me a bad coupon

Bathia_Mapes: Forgot_my_password_again: free publicity and good will for a scoop of ice cream? thats just good business.

The real story is the hoarder who kept a coupon for 26 years

Not a scoop of ice cream, but a gallon. That's what the coupon was good for.

$10 worth of material and labor for international publicity? Seems fair.

Sundae edition...

+1

/Got nuthin..
//But now want chocolate mint ice cream...

Trance750: Englebert Slaptyback: Quantum Apostrophe

NewportBarGuy: To honor the coupon was to pay homage to a tradition of customer service that began in 1968. Wilcoxson's, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Can someone help me out with that math?

For the first 56 years, they had no customer service.


"Free kick to the 'nads with every purchase!"


The Forgurt contains potassium benzoate.

That's bad

Wasn't the Frogurt "cursed as well".*

The toppings had sodium benzoate.

Also bad.

* along with the Krusty doll.

Ed Grubermann: The thing about companies honoring these old coupons and tickets is that it is a cheap and emotionally satisfying (at least in the customer's eyes) way of generating brand loyalty.

Yet, Albertsons refuses to honor my free cookie card I got when I was five and still have. It says it's good for one free cookie each visit and has neither an expiration date nor an age limit, bit they still won't give me the damn cookie.

I'm entitled to my cookie!

ZMugg: Trance750: Englebert Slaptyback: Quantum Apostrophe

NewportBarGuy: To honor the coupon was to pay homage to a tradition of customer service that began in 1968. Wilcoxson's, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Can someone help me out with that math?

For the first 56 years, they had no customer service.


"Free kick to the 'nads with every purchase!"


The Forgurt contains potassium benzoate.

That's bad

Wasn't the Frogurt "cursed as well".*

The toppings had sodium benzoate.

Also bad.

* along with the Krusty doll.

Wasen't that where Homer bought the severed hand?

Trance750: ZMugg: Trance750: Englebert Slaptyback: Quantum Apostrophe

NewportBarGuy: To honor the coupon was to pay homage to a tradition of customer service that began in 1968. Wilcoxson's, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Can someone help me out with that math?

For the first 56 years, they had no customer service.


"Free kick to the 'nads with every purchase!"


The Forgurt contains potassium benzoate.

That's bad

Wasn't the Frogurt "cursed as well".*

The toppings had sodium benzoate.

Also bad.

* along with the Krusty doll.

Wasen't that where Homer bought the severed hand?

Different THoH (i think).

IIRC Homer left with the Krusty doll (and without the Frogurt).

Bathia_Mapes: Not a scoop of ice cream, but a gallon. That's what the coupon was good for.

well, my scoops are bigger than yours :)

I bought ramen from the store 2 weeks ago. Where's my article??

ZMugg: Trance750: ZMugg: Trance750: Englebert Slaptyback: Quantum Apostrophe

NewportBarGuy: To honor the coupon was to pay homage to a tradition of customer service that began in 1968. Wilcoxson's, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Can someone help me out with that math?

For the first 56 years, they had no customer service.


"Free kick to the 'nads with every purchase!"


The Forgurt contains potassium benzoate.

That's bad

Wasn't the Frogurt "cursed as well".*

The toppings had sodium benzoate.

Also bad.

* along with the Krusty doll.

Wasen't that where Homer bought the severed hand?

Different THoH (i think).

IIRC Homer left with the Krusty doll (and without the Frogurt).

You're right.

Trance750: ZMugg: Trance750: ZMugg: Trance750: Englebert Slaptyback: Quantum Apostrophe

NewportBarGuy: To honor the coupon was to pay homage to a tradition of customer service that began in 1968. Wilcoxson's, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Can someone help me out with that math?

For the first 56 years, they had no customer service.


"Free kick to the 'nads with every purchase!"


The Forgurt contains potassium benzoate.

That's bad

Wasn't the Frogurt "cursed as well".*

The toppings had sodium benzoate.

Also bad.

* along with the Krusty doll.

Wasen't that where Homer bought the severed hand?

Different THoH (i think).

IIRC Homer left with the Krusty doll (and without the Frogurt).

You're right.

You-tubed* the scene to be sure.

*This is a verb, now?

angryjd: Must be a slow news day,

As someone who's been there, this is about the biggest news you get in Billings, MT.