Interesting little article about this MLM marketing stuff...
http://www.mlmblog.net/monavie/Wal-Mart - Sam's Club Set To Put MonaVie Out Of Business?
When your company doesn't have a unique product, your only choice is to build your business on hype, false claims and other mumbo-jumbo.
Regardless of what some may think, people are not stupid. They will eventually find out that a product similar to MonaVie is being sold in Sam's Club for $17.24 while MonaVie product is being sold for $39.
Here is the price tag from Sam's Club (a division of Wal-Mart) - note the comparison to MonaVie on the shelf tag:
Finally, have a look at the back label. I will be posting a comparison of ingredients soon:
Wal-Mart and Costco are not stupid either, gang. Building a business based on a juice that can be copied so easily along with hype filled testimonies that many times cross the legal line into medical claims will catch up MonaVie. The hype only lasts so long.
Update II (Ingredients):
Frut A Vie ingredients:
Proprietary blend of Acai (Freeze Dried Powder & Puree), Grape Juice, Pear Juice, Cherry Juice, Pomegranate Juice, Goji Juice (Wolfberry), Apple Juice, Cranberry Juice, Blueberry Juice, Acerola, Grape Skin Extract, Bannana, & 1140mg of Mangosteen Peel Extract. (incomplete - I am working on getting the rest of the ingredients).
MonaVie Active ingredients:
Proprietary blend of acai (freeze dried powder and puree); Fruit juice from concentrate (white grape, nashi pear, acerola, aronia, purple grape, cranberry, passion fruit, apricot, prune, kiwi, blueberry, wolfberry [goji], pomegranate, and lychee, camu camu); fruit purees (pear, banana, bilberry);d-glucosamine hydrochloride, esterified fatty acids, natural flavor, citric acid, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate.
ORAC Values:
MonaVie has an ORAC score of 1027 per oz.
Frut A Vie has an ORAC score of 3500 per oz.
An Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) score is a test tube analysis that measures the antioxidant levels of food and other chemical substances. If a food has a high ORAC score, then it means the food is high in antioxidants. The antioxidant’s strength is its ability to eliminate oxygen free radicals.