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Ad creates plush-toy dilemma
Saturday Star
|December 20, 2025
A FRENCH supermarket group astounded by how viral its Christmas ad featuring a cartoon wolf has become said Monday it regrettably would not be able to sell soft toys of the lupine character any time soon.
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"The truth is, we were just totally caught out" by the success of the commercial, which in just a week has been viewed a billion times around the world, the CEO of the Mousquetaires/ Intermarche group, Thierry Cotillard, told France 2 television.
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