Tag: business
It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got Death's Sting
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Wed May 07, 2008 at 05:44:36 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
From bungee jumping to all sorts of extreme sports -- people do crazy things because the thrill achieved by risking one's life makes the experience worth it. Would the experience still be worth it if the risk were removed? Is it even the same experience? These questions are being raised in Japan by a group of merchants involved in the fugu trade. Put quite plainly, if you eat a dish of fugu or puffer fish which hasn't been prepared properly, you can die. But now they're selling non-poisonous fugu. The merchants involved in selling the toxic versions are upset at the potential loss of business. They also pose the question of whether living a risk-free life is a life at all.
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They don't make 'em like this anymore. I ask cuz I'm not sure; does the US make real shit anymore?
pO157.
Posted to Business on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 10:36:10 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Fears of a depression are tossed around amid claims that a poor economy, labor conditions, and NAFTA have caused the collapse of the US Manufacturing Industry.
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The Writers strike. Argle bargle, or fooforaw?
pO157.
Posted to Business on Mon Nov 05, 2007 at 07:14:38 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Writers represented by the Writers Guild of America went on strike last night, after negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers hit a deadline.
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Arbitration: Thy Name Is Judge
pO157.
Posted to Business on Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 08:40:42 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
If you have ever had a dispute with a credit card company or bank over money you probably think you can take your case to court and gain satisfaction. Unfortunately, that is not always the case.
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Steeeeeeeeeeee-rike One!
pO157.
Posted to Business on Tue Sep 25, 2007 at 02:46:24 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
At 11am Monday morning, members of the United Auto Workers walked off the job and into the streets as contract negotiations broke down.
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Outsourced Products = Home Grown Lawsuits
pO157.
Posted to Business on Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 04:02:08 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Mega corporations love subcontracting out to China, despite the allegations of human rights violations, corruption, repressive government, massive death from environmental shenanigans. However, there is danger of a new kind of blowback from subcontracting... product liability lawsuits.
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What's Good For Toyota Is Good For The Country, And Vice Versa
port1080.
Posted to Business on Thu Apr 26, 2007 at 07:09:34 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
Preliminary reports suggest that this year, for the first time, Toyota's worldwide sales will top that of US automaker General Motors, prompting our own tomc to offer up our headline by reinterpreting Charles Wilson's oft-quoted phrase "What’s good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa" (which some believe to be true), to include Toyota in place of GM.
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Let's Have A Rebate Debate
MayorBob.
Posted to Business on Thu Dec 28, 2006 at 06:58:43 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Most of us have been there. You went out and purchased your wireless, Hi-Def, digital Ramalaminator and paid (US)$250 for it. But wait, if you match up the receipts with the bar code, fill out the paperwork and mail it into Ramalaminator Inc. within the next two weeks, you'll get $100 back in a rebate! Sounds like a deal, so you buy the thing with the best of intentions of taking advantage of the manufacturer's largesse. But there's a dark side to the bright prospect of getting money back, of course - dissatisfiers like lost receipts, taking too long to claim a rebate, the glacial pace of the postal system, glitches in the rebate process, even dishonesty on the part of the manufacturer. All these things add up to a feeling that rebates aren't really worth what retailers make them out to be. They also leave the buying public with questions of why can't manufacturers just drop the prices on the stuff they sell and save us all from rebate hell?
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Our Advertising, Not Our Prices, Is Insane!
MayorBob.
Posted to Media on Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 04:34:49 PM EST. RSS.
The now defunct New York area electonics superstore Crazy Eddie used to feature a spokesperson whose tagline was "our prices are insane!" Although much beloved by listeners at the time, the advertising caught criticism from groups who believed mental illness was no laughing matter. One would think that it would be a long time before someone came up with an ad campaign as automatically tasteless as Crazy Eddie. But that time has come and allow me to introduce you to a surefire nominee for inclusion at any future advertising Hall of Shame -- Dennis Mitsubishi of Columbus, Ohio and it's dead on arrival "Jihad on the US automotive market" campaign.
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