{"id":930,"date":"2009-03-29T10:26:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T14:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=930"},"modified":"2009-03-29T10:26:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T14:26:44","slug":"afterword-on-the-economy-rants-marketing-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Afterword on the Economy Rants: Marketing Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, one other thing that really chaps my hide over this whole economy\/bailout malarky: companies who are using the recession and bailouts as a marketing tool.<\/p>\n<p>Prime case: Domino&#8217;s Pizza and their &#8220;Big Taste Bailout:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/77HvNvR5bmo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/77HvNvR5bmo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Oh <em>really<\/em>?  So, someone who&#8217;s in horrible shape because of the economy, probably lost their job, maybe their home, is gonna have their problems solved with more pizza than they could possibly stomach in a year?<\/p>\n<p>I guess the intent of this was to give people a fuzzy, feel-good kind of sensation when they think of Domino&#8217;s and bite into their soggy-crust, poor-quality cheap pizza.  In my book though, capitalizing on other&#8217;s hard times is not engendering any goodwill here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, one other thing that really chaps my hide over this whole economy\/bailout malarky: companies who are using the recession and bailouts as a marketing tool. Prime case: Domino&#8217;s Pizza and their &#8220;Big Taste Bailout:&#8221; Oh really? So, someone who&#8217;s in horrible shape because of the economy, probably lost their job, maybe their home, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}