It wasn’t really a ‘first amendment’ t-shirt. But it did assert the wearer’s right to free speech and he lost the fight – at least the first round. A Texas Restaurant kicked him out for wearing the shirt after being hail-stormed with bad online reviews and negative Twitter and Facebook traffic…Read More →
Wednesday is Valentine’s Day, and it seems that no restaurant chain is letting the opportunity go unexploited. I’ve performed a quick, admittedly non-exhaustive survey of the big name joints and the Valentine’s Day specials they’re offering – which range from cute to campy to crazy!Read More →
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about The Store Of The Future – whether it be Amazon’s GO concept or the online/delivery model. But a third option has emerged which just might ‘outrun’ both of those concepts. And it leverages one of the other big tech developments of the current century…Read More →
The Fast Food sector weighed in with a vengeance re.- Valentine’s Day, with just about everybody offering specials and novelty gifts. But, in the interest of variety, we thought we’d cherry-pick the best of them. And a chemical found in McDonald’s Fries may be the key to curing baldness…Read More →
No. Really. And, for those of you who don’t know, ‘Tide Pods’ are little plastic pouches of Laundry detergent you just throw into the machine and forget. It’s convenience to the max. No measuring, no mess. But it seems that idiots who don’t know any better have taken to eating them…Read More →
Not really. But it looked, for a moment, in a recent interview with the online magazine Freakonomics, that the soft drink giant was preparing to turn back the clock fifty years or so and start marketing products specifically designed for women – ‘women’ with a big, pink capital ‘W’…Read More →
The reaction has been swift and voluminous, and covers the whole spectrum from kudos to no-nos, after a San Diego, CA, Girl Scout sold 312 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies outside a local Marijuana Dispensary over Super Bowl Weekend. You gotta give the kid credit for her marketing smarts!Read More →
Following the well-established rule that people will pay ANYTHING for Food if they’re trapped in a stadium or arena with no option but to buy what’s there, Super Bowl vendors went absolutely nuts with their prices this past Sunday. It’s just naked, hand-wringing greed at it’s shameless worst…Read More →