(25 Sep 2024)
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Hatboro, Pennsylvania – 24 September 2024
1. Cookies on display
2. Various of customers buying cookies
3. Customers chanting “Trump” outside the shop
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Denise Collado, (middle), and Helene Moran (right):
Collado: “Today is my mom’s birthday. She’s 82. So we came to buy our Trump cookies. You want to talk?
Moran: “Which we do whenever Trump is up for election. He is my sweetheart. I love him so much.”
5. Cookies with Harris 2024 label on display
6. Screen shot of cookie tally number on a computer’s screen
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kathleen Lochel, Lochel’s Bakery:
“Each shipping order, each cookie, they’re all counted individually. So right now, Trump is leading. He also did win in 2020, the cookie poll here. But I like to express to everybody, this is just like a fun, non-stressful tally that we’re taking. It’s definitely not scientific. It’s just a delicious way, I say, to take the pressure off what is going on with the election, all the ads, all the campaign stuff, just a cookie.”
8. Open sign on the store
9. Various of Lochel tallying numbers on a map
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kathleen Lochel, Lochel’s Bakery:
“And these cookies are being shipped all over the United States right now, so much so that they’re on backorder. So, we’re about 3 to 4 weeks back, only guaranteeing, as of today, that they will get by Election Day. We’re also seeing people drive in from a couple hours away because they’re going to get them faster than being shipped. So that’s bringing a whole new energy to our store, like new customers, new faces. And potentially these customers could buy around the holidays. So, it’s a win-win for small business and the customers coming into our town.”
11. Various of staff making cookies
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Kathleen Lochel, Lochel’s Bakery:
“I think any small business can potentially gain from the election if you do it the right way, offer both candidates, make it a fun experience, not make fun of people, not pin a candidate against each other. I think that, in order to do something like this, when you’re dipping into politics, you really have to treat each candidate fairly and offer both.”
13. Various of staff making cookies
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Kathleen Lochel, Lochel’s Bakery:
“So there is a little bit of a dark side, you are correct, on and it’s mainly on social media. It’s not in our store. The people that are coming into our store, whether they’re buying red or blue cookies, they’re friendly. They joke, they laugh, they buy other things. It’s generally just things like false reviews of customers that don’t even come to us and people sending nasty emails and leaving nasty messages on our social media. But here in our store, it has been nothing but positive. I, I can wholeheartedly say that both sides come in and they just want to support small business. They genuinely want to come into a small town, buy from a small business and see that we’re successful because truly small business is the backbone of America.”
15. Photos on the shop’s wall
16. Exterior of the shop
STORYLINE:
A suburban Philadelphia bakery’s cookie “poll” that started during the 2008 presidential campaign as a joke between the owners and their customers has grown into much more.
Lochel’s Bakery in Hatboro is swamped with orders. People are driving from a couple hours away to buy the cookies in person and shipment orders are coming from as far away as Alaska.
Katheen Lochel, whose husband is Lochel’s third-generation baker, said sales exploded that year, as customers bought thousands of cookies.
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