Posted on 04/25/2009 12:53:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Me too.
Eddie Boo Bah . . . affectionately.
How about a list of “top 12” brands Freepers would like to see go.
1. GE (Owner of the political agendas known as NBC-Universal and MSMBC).
2. Google (In spite of what they offer and their massive presence; a. they are FAR too political, b. they help the Chinese government restrict what the Chinese people find on the Internet, c. they spent years promoting “net neutrality”, which simply favors their business model - where someone else must spend their money to make the highway robust enough for Google’s additional products, only to end that effort seeking their own special deals for the major service providers to have Google’s servers embedded directly, physically in their networks (which would leave all other search engines where?).
3. Nike, and their top three competitors - all over rated.
4. CITGO - close the dictator’s direct access to U.S. consumers
5. Lukoil - close Putin’s direct access to U.S. consumers
(yes, I know, with regard to 4. and 5., the markup for the retail price is not great, but Chavez-Oil and Putin-oil should be restricted to imports to our own refiners and not permitted domestic U.S. operations)
6. U.S. Air - let Southwest air grow some more
7. CITIBank and BOA - they should have been declared insolvent, and UNDONE - by the FDIC, with the FDIC disbursing their branch operations, and the FDIC insured depositors, along with a proportionate portion of supposed “toxic” assets, to many regional and small banks, with good balance sheets, across the country; the credit-card accounts could have been sold, at auction, to any and all comers.
8. Mercury - Ford doesn’t need it.
9. ?????
The problem with apparel and footwear is that it’s so easy to knock off even with good legal help. My Canadian friend from MBA school started a line of children’s clothing in the late Eighties. While the undergarments were made in the US, the jeans and heavily detailed work was made in Hong Kong.
The law firm found that employees of his contractor copied the logo and applied it to substandard products then sold it on the streets of Hong Kong as well as making it available to street vendors in the US. My friend was livid but spending tens of thousands on going after these individuals just drained him financially and he closed his company.
United has been mismanaged for the past 20 years. It’s been on the brink of going out of business so long I began to think of it as the Generalissimo Francisco Franco of airlines. Delta and American will be the top dogs when all is said and done. Oh, US Air is a dead airline flying to paraphrase the movie title.
Whew!!!!! None of my favorite stores were listed.
Salvation Army Thrift Store
Goodwill is also good for bargins
99 Cent store
I guess I’ll be able to continue to shop.
Yes, Cato the Elder never got over his last flight on United Airlines—he asked for wine and all they had was retsina. He was sure they were trying to poison him.
Some things never go out of style.
AMEN!!
As for Esquire, ostensibly an adult male magazine, it just can’t withstand a culture of ubiquitous man-children, with their backward baseball caps and dungarees, trying desperately to make a muscle t-shirt and hair gel work despite having crossed the rubicon of age 50.
Why is the name ‘Pitney Bowes’ never on lists like this? They deserve extinction more than anybody on this list.
Try being 6’6”. If it takes 12 hours or less to drive I drive.
By coincidence, Caesar was 50 when he crossed the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. (he was born in July 100 B.C.).
That happened in 2006. I have not flown since, except for flying First Class to Maui in 2007. BIG difference.
I think my legs suffered an incurable condition on that United flight. (I’m no spring chicken)
I like it when I am accidentally cerebral. Thanks!
3. Nike, and their top three competitors - all over rated.
Underarmour and Adidas kick ass.
I was on US Air flight where the Flight Attendant was putting ice into drinks with her bare hands, she had the sniffles too. I didn’t really care because had I seen her in a bar I would have made out with her.
It’s not the airline fault once the plane leaves the gate. I was listening to ATC on one flight and we had to wait on the tarmac because some fool filed incorrect flight plans.
The original Eddie Bauer went bankrupt and the name was bought by a new company, which is now going bankrupt. Most brands will continue on with new owners.
Just like Listerine, whiskey kills 99.99% of all germs on contact.
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