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Toffile posted:What if it's an ad for A Charlie Brown Christmas? Well, Charlie Brown Christmas is a terrible Christmas special, so...yes.
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THESE FILES LOAD SO SLOW IT MAKES MY PATIENTS IMPATIENT  THAT DOESN'T KID AROUND LESS TIME BABYSITTING....YOUR COMPUTER  YOU GOTTA MAKE AN APPOINTMENT  
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Dec 12, 2013 16:53
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Mahoning posted:Oh my god this JC Penney commercial where they changed the lyrics of Feliz Navidad makes me angry. Not only are the lyrics terrible, they actually sound like the laziest lyricist ever wrote them. They make sure to squeeze in the Spanish words amor and grande right at the last second because hey guys it's a Spanish song! Everyone responsible for this commercial should be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
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Dec 12, 2013 21:51
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SpookyLizard posted:Everyone responsible for this commercial should be first against the wall when the revolution comes. Yeah if this is the best the new marketing brain could do, I say bring back Zyman. Apropos here's a great article about how hosed JCP is right now: http://kensegall.com/2013/12/jcpenney-forward-to-the-past/
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Dec 12, 2013 22:26
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BaronVonVaderham posted:I just saw a new trailer for The Hobbit. The narrator finally pronounces "Smaug" like a normal person who isn't having a stroke mid-word. My favorite is the one for the Hobbit tie-in food at Dennys where the voiceover guy says SMAUUWWG that verges on sounding like he's sarcastically over-pronouncing it.
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Hasters posted:Yeah if this is the best the new marketing brain could do, I say bring back Zyman. Apropos here's a great article about how hosed JCP is right now: Speaking of that, I recall a round of JCP commercials maybe 6 or so months ago where it was basically them saying "Sorry that we've sucked so hard." Anyone know what I'm talking about or have any idea what that was in reference to?
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raditts posted:Speaking of that, I recall a round of JCP commercials maybe 6 or so months ago where it was basically them saying "Sorry that we've sucked so hard." Anyone know what I'm talking about or have any idea what that was in reference to? Basically JPC was in dire straits, so in an attempt to survive they hired Ron Johnson, former VP of Retail at Apple, as CEO. The first thing he did was end all of the fake sales, endless coupons, financing offers and other bullshit that was dragging them down. The problem was that he did all that before he actually got around to changing the retail environment. So the old timers who were only there because of the 50% off sale abandoned them for other retailers, and the new customers they were hoping to get didn't want to have a dated retail experience. In the end the board got scared, called in the guy who handled New Coke marketing to make the apology ads and then hired back the old CEO they fired in the first place. vvv I loved his idea of a department store being a collection of miniature brand stores rather than trying to make everything feel homogenous, it's literally the exact opposite of what he did at Apple. vvv Gynocentric Regime fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Dec 13, 2013 |
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Dec 13, 2013 00:03
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Ah. Looks like the ad I was thinking of is linked right in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBkKJdKrhCY As much as I dislike Apple and its advertising, it looks like he had the right idea. It's no surprise he was behind Target's marketing though, the commercials were almost identical during that time span (and boy do Target's commercials loving suck now). But of course corporate management is unique in that failure will get you farther along than good ideas ever will. Hiring the guy from New Coke is right up there with CNN hiring the guy who ran NBC into the ground. raditts fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Dec 13, 2013 |
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Dec 13, 2013 00:07
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Hasters posted:vvv I loved his idea of a department store being a collection of miniature brand stores rather than trying to make everything feel homogenous, it's literally the exact opposite of what he did at Apple. vvv I hate it. It actually makes stuff harder to find. The biggest Macy's in my area did it. If you're looking for something that's not a line big enough to have it's mini-store, it's really tough to track down where all the men's dress shirts are. I can find Polo Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Tommy Hilfiger but hell if I can figure out where...anyone else is. It seems really counter intuitive.
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Sash! posted:I hate it. It actually makes stuff harder to find. The biggest Macy's in my area did it. If you're looking for something that's not a line big enough to have it's mini-store, it's really tough to track down where all the men's dress shirts are. I can find Polo Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Tommy Hilfiger but hell if I can figure out where...anyone else is. It seems really counter intuitive. If you don't buy brands, or don't have brand loyalty then you are absolutely right; however the most desirable customers, as typified by the Apple fan, do both. For example I only wear Levi's, so I loved the Levi's store inside JCP. To me having multiple brands available is far less important than having a great selection of the brand I will actually purchase. There's a saying that the internet only want's one of everything, the best, and I think that applies to a lot of people as well.
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Kay Jewelers is running this creepy Open Hearts commercial again this yaer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-vGUxyrthA Every kiss begins with Kay. And sick ends with Kay, too.
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Every kiss begins with Chris Hansen.
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Sash! posted:I hate it. It actually makes stuff harder to find. The biggest Macy's in my area did it. If you're looking for something that's not a line big enough to have it's mini-store, it's really tough to track down where all the men's dress shirts are. I can find Polo Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Tommy Hilfiger but hell if I can figure out where...anyone else is. It seems really counter intuitive. Having worked not for, but inside of, a Macys/Marshall Fields, the Macys store brands eat dick. They're priced the same, if not higher, than their Fields equivalents (this was openly stated to is during the transition meetings), but the quality is much lower. The Naomi Klein idea of not whoring yourself out to brands certainly is noble, but don't sacrifice the quality while doing it--Macys, and I'm guessing most other department stores, isn't where you go to avoid brands and find quality. H&M has better quality and lower prices, Goodwill is a great place to go, I've had good luck with Target, any kind of local vintage store is usually pretty good as long as you are looking for casual wear, and the TJ Maxx style stores are spotty on a single visit basis, but great if you can go a few times in a week. On another note, I actually like this year's Target ads compared to those with the overly excited blonde lady. They don't use currently popular music, or twee indie bullshit, and they all show products that are for sale without some kind of stupid script. Here's some music, some products, and some people interacting with them not cracking awful jokes about needing batteries. I really hate christmas music, though, so those are pretty much the best ads on TV right now in my book.
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I can never figure out the price of anything at Macy's because it seems like the entire store is on sale some amount (plus more if you have a coupon or Macy's card) 4 days a week. I think this is the problem JC Penney tried to fix but in the end they're still a crappy store so it doesn't matter.
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ElwoodCuse posted:I can never figure out the price of anything at Macy's because it seems like the entire store is on sale some amount (plus more if you have a coupon or Macy's card) 4 days a week. I think this is the problem JC Penney tried to fix but in the end they're still a crappy store so it doesn't matter. I'll use any excuse to post this: 
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ElwoodCuse posted:I can never figure out the price of anything at Macy's because it seems like the entire store is on sale some amount (plus more if you have a coupon or Macy's card) 4 days a week. I think this is the problem JC Penney tried to fix but in the end they're still a crappy store so it doesn't matter. The sale price is the real price, the "regular" price is the sucker price. It's like car sales pricing--no one pays sticker. When I last worked inside a Macys, the year had 364 days of business (no Christmas). There were ~250 (margin of error being 10) sale days. I remember it was either 250 or it rounded to 250; thus the margin of error.
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Dec 13, 2013 05:14
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A local car dealership is pushing pet adoptions. To do so, they make a dog look like a nightmare trying to eat you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVu4dTVGLpc
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Dec 13, 2013 05:44
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Mister Kingdom posted:Kay Jewelers is running this creepy Open Hearts commercial again this yaer: Also the jewelry stores make 1 or 2 new commercials a year for the Christmas season and just recycle the rest of the ones that aired in previous years.
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They also do the ads where they make sure to show the jewelry in a cutaway so that they can just edit in whatever the new item is.
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Anybody hate any commercials more than most because they portray a job you do? I'm a flight attendant and I think this gives me a special hatred for the recent Jared commercial and that Geico pig ad.
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I recently found out that both Kay Jewelers and Jared Galleria of Jewelry are owned by the same company, which explains why they both have loving awful commercials. Also, gently caress Lexus Christmas commercials.
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There's another one where some guy is traveling around with his equally gorgeous supermodel-looking wife talking about "Aw shucks she's just a regular gal but she's special to me so I buy her jewelry from Kay."
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Dec 13, 2013 22:38
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The jewelry industry has really stepped up their game of heaping poo poo on a poo poo heap this year. Chocolate diamonds? What the gently caress is wrong with you people?
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Dec 13, 2013 22:59
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Are chocolate diamonds just trying to market really lovely diamonds? The Pandora charm bracelet is still the worst of the worst. Always hilarious to see one of their commercials showing some rich woman wearing one, when it is the most god-awful, tacky, gaudy, piece of jewelry I could imagine buying.
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Meltathon posted:Are chocolate diamonds just trying to market really lovely diamonds? Put it this way - a decade ago they would be considered lovely diamonds, but other than color there's not really a difference.
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ILL ON PZONES posted:The jewelry industry has really stepped up their game of heaping poo poo on a poo poo heap this year. There's a great one for People's on TV here showing a kid who can't even be 10 buying a diamond necklace for his mom. The commercial even ends with "diamonds starting at $200"
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Dec 13, 2013 23:25
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Meltathon posted:Are chocolate diamonds just trying to market really lovely diamonds? There's a Pandora store in the mall here and it is wall to wall at Christmas and Mothers day. For overpriced trinkety crap, I don't get it.
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Y-Hat posted:I hate the message that the commercial with the man on the swingset with the child sends. It's basically saying, "Not even kids are immune from shiny jewelry." I don't have a problem with the guy buying jewelry for his stepdaughter, but I'm pretty sure there's something more age appropriate out there. Not the same loving necklace he gave her mom.
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ElwoodCuse posted:There's a Pandora store in the mall here and it is wall to wall at Christmas and Mothers day. For overpriced trinkety crap, I don't get it. I live in the Midwest--a lot of people here equate higher price with more taste.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I don't have a problem with the guy buying jewelry for his stepdaughter, but I'm pretty sure there's something more age appropriate out there. Not the same loving necklace he gave her mom. It really seems like dating the mom is just a means to an end if he's buying the daughter expensive jewelry. I get a real Humbert Humbert vibe from that ad.
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In addition to the poo poo diamonds I've seen a different ad for diamonds of other colors. I feel like if I were going to buy jewelery I'd rather have a ruby or emerald than a red or green diamond
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Timett posted:In addition to the poo poo diamonds I've seen a different ad for diamonds of other colors. I feel like if I were going to buy jewelery I'd rather have a ruby or emerald than a red or green diamond You'd also be spending way less money. A red diamond was a terrible clarity but good color can hit $100,000 for a quarter carat. You can get a decent quarter carat ruby for a few hundred bucks. Diamonds amuse me because I do recognize the value of stones of extremely high quality and rare combination of traits, but that I once had a job that used so much black diamonds slurry as polishing agents that I have work boots that still sparkle with diamond dust. Sash! fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Dec 14, 2013 |
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Timett posted:In addition to the poo poo diamonds I've seen a different ad for diamonds of other colors. I feel like if I were going to buy jewelery I'd rather have a ruby or emerald than a red or green diamond But diamonds! Sales people when my husband and I went to get my engagement ring a few years back first though I was joking and then baffled that I wanted a peridot instead of a diamond as my stone... because diamond, I guess. Chocolate diamonds have got super popular in the last few years too. Frankly, I think they look pretty terrible.
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Plus upon really looking at chocolate diamonds I've realized that they aren't even chocolate colored. They are more light brown, and the "chocolate" color comes from the fact that they loving tint the gold around the gems brown. It's like me wearing a brown shirt and proclaiming myself African American.
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Sash! posted:You'd also be spending way less money. If you recognize the value of stones, then you know that the "value" of diamonds is a result of price fixing.
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raditts posted:If you recognize the value of stones, then you know that the "value" of diamonds is a result of price fixing. Fun fact: those rubies and emeralds are way more rare and intrinsically valuable than the overpriced diamonds. And probably are responsible for less deaths and maimings.
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raditts posted:If you recognize the value of stones, then you know that the "value" of diamonds is a result of price fixing. There are actually rare stones though. I'm talking about the ultra-high end museum pieces. There's only a few hundred diamonds that are rated flawless. Meteorites are ridiculously common, but there's only that one that's shaped kinda like a tire that's in the Smithsonian.
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Diamonds are good for cutting tools and drillbits but that's about it imo.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Diamonds are good for cutting tools and drillbits but that's about it imo. Said the guy that's never watched Diamonds are Forever
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Diamonds are good for cutting tools and drillbits but that's about it imo. Diamonds are pretty but so's lots of other stuff. If you want to give someone a pretty looking gem that's cheap nowadays you can just do Lapis Lazuli. It's even considered historically a rare gem on the level of sapphires so it's not like you're going cubic zirconium on your significant other.
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