Posted on 06/21/2012 12:33:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Al Gore’s Current TV was on life support even before it fired its only bankable star, Keith Olbermann
I started laughing right there....
“Best Buy.”
Why?
If nobody watches this, can it be considered a "Brand"
I certainly hope Owl Gore has put hundreds of millions of his own money into this joke...
I happened to look at the prediction links they made for previous years and they were quite prescient about the following companies:
BORDERS (Bankrupt)
BLOCKBUSTER (Bankrupt, acquired by DISH NETWRK)
PALM (Acquired by HP)
EASTMAN KODAK (Chapter 11)
AMBAC (chapter 11)
Sun Microsystems (Acquired by Oracle)
They were wrong about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac though ( Government Bailout).
LMAO!!!!
BAD IDEA.....AT 5:00 P.M. the "five" is on FOX news....one of the best on T.V....very entertaining!!!
My wife is like you but if I tell her Talbots is about to disappear it may still cost me a few grand.
She will go into mourning.
I don’t get Fox, I have the very basic program on satellite.
I’m surprised J.C. Penney isn’t on the list.
I shopped at Talbots in the 60’s, and I was just there a few weeks ago. If they go under I will miss them, but you’re right, they should go back to their original model.
I can’t understand why the good people Califnia, flush with wealth from the Baraqqi Summers of Recovery and the magic of green energy, wouldn’t want to lay out a billion or so for a nifty new stadium for the Raiders.
Watching this brand go extinct would be a good start.
Thanks. I was surprised to see Am Air on the list - I’ve thought they were in trouble for years! Our mission team usually flies AA because we can get a good deal. They always get us to the mission field - but we’re almost always delayed coming home. Though we had a nice layover in Puerto Rico, paid for by AA, once. :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtsqNUnRMQ4\
A year old, but it has only gotten worse
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2011/03/13/best-buy-losing-market-share/
In the early 1990s they began to compete with retailers catering to a younger clientele and trended away from classic styling and natural fibers for which they were so well known. I stopped buying from them in the mid-1990s.
The Talbotts should return to their original premise as a clothier. There is an open niche for the classic styles made of natural fibers. They would get me back as a customer, that is for sure.
Of the other two credit cards I carried, only one still survives - Nordstrom. The third, I.Magnin disappeared quite a while ago.
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Boy, I was surprised a few years ago when I stopped in looking for some pendeltons. Instead of the classics, they were clothes you could get anywhere.
I have heard that Salon has been dying for years. I will believe it when I see it. Some flush leftie will dribble monies in.
they forgot GayMart...
The first time I stepped into a Talbots store was when visiting Carmel-by-the-Sea. It was 1980 and one wall of the store was stocked with shetland wool cardigans on shelves, in a rainbow of colors! Very impressive.
Try finding anything like that today, much less a shetland wool cardigan, period.
As for the Pendleton woolens, we live about an hours drive from their mill in Washington State. Their mill outlet store there is fabulous!
LOL...I still remember the salon.com death watch pings we use to do...I vote for Dec '12.
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