Fortune: Dumbest moments in business
GM, Tropicana and KFC all take it on the chin.
Fortune has come up with its “Dumbest Moments in Business 2009″ feature.
There are 10 of them, including what it says is a “ridiculous” idea by GM to partner with Segway.
Fortune also lambasts Tropicana for a botched redesign and KFC for running out of chicken, as well as Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
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The Truth
July 2nd, 2009
2:05 pm
My addition is the Blackberry Storm. That phone is a piece of cr@p! I’m glad I got rid of it last week and bought the new iphone 3gs instead.
Beagle Bailey
July 2nd, 2009
2:11 pm
One Big Ass Mistake America. Allowing OBAMA to be sworn in as president.
Beagle Bailey
July 2nd, 2009
2:13 pm
Al Frankin — ’nuff sed.
RGB
July 2nd, 2009
2:15 pm
My entry: Wal-Mart’s endorsement this week of “pay or play” whereby businesses would be required by law to provide a certain level of benefits (determined by, you guessed it, Obama) or face a fine. By doing this, Wal-Mart throws its considerable weight behind the Democrats’ plans for socialized medicine. Mr. Sam wouldn’t have considered this the Wal-Mart way.
Tay
July 2nd, 2009
2:31 pm
Two words: New Coke
The Truth
July 2nd, 2009
2:34 pm
Tay – Try to keep up…we are talking about the last year, not some 1985 New Coke dabacle.
Big Boom from NY
July 2nd, 2009
3:23 pm
Beagle Bailey – you stupid moron, so we would be better off having that clown that ran the govt for 8 years. He is the idiot who put this country in the bind that we are in now. so many nah sayers in the blogg. I know this is GA, so i know alot of the hatred towards Obama is not on his spending, but more his Color.
Face it…. OUR President is BLACK….
Chris
July 2nd, 2009
3:41 pm
Big Boom- you are actually pretty stupid yourself. The country was heading into a recession when Bush took office. Go back and check before you put your foot in your mouth. Has nothing to do race Mr Play The Race Card. Check your history on Clinton and the “everbody gets a house” deal. Democrats, black, white, green, yellow and whatever are the ones who are running this country into the ground.
lovelyliz
July 2nd, 2009
3:50 pm
Business is great at calculating cost, but terrible at figuring out what it’s worth. Getting rid of people and products because they cost too much without relaizing they are worth a whole lot more.
Curcuit City getting rid of their commissioned sales people who were worth their weight in gold and replacing them with minimum wage flunkies who knew next to nothing about their products driving away high $$ customers who expect serice and knowlegde from the people who want them to drop $2500 on a television.
DJ
July 2nd, 2009
3:51 pm
Chris, did you say heading into a recession? Umm, the country was already in a recession before Bush acknowledged it. With many people who HATE Obama, it does have a lot to do with race. You check your history. I bet you can’t come up with one positive thing to say about Obama except for “he speaks well”. Same for everyone else who dislikes/hates him. Same old rhetoric. I’m with you Big Boom.
Georgia Tom
July 2nd, 2009
3:55 pm
“I know this is GA, so i know alot of the hatred towards Obama is not on his spending, but more his Color.
Face it…. OUR President is BLACK….”
This is the biggest crock of you-know-what! Just because someone a) lives in the South and b) disagrees with President Obama’s policies does NOT mean it is because of his race!!! Are you saying that because he is black, no one can legitimately disagree with the President or his policies without being labeled racist? Are you not being a bigot against Southern whites yourself for slinging around such baseless accusations?
This constant playing of the “race card” is getting real old, real fast. Not only that, doing so further damages race relations in this country which have obviously improved vastly on many fronts in the last 40 years. Please stop.
Tay
July 2nd, 2009
5:04 pm
Oops Truth, guess I was thinking of all time haha!
Carter is a Fool
July 2nd, 2009
9:21 pm
Obama and Geitner (TAX CHEAT) made the list. Only 20% of the top ten. What about Pelosi and Obama for the Cap and Tax Scheme? What about the Preserved Jobs rhetoric of the Bailout (Stimulus) stuff? What about Government Motors Corporation (GMC)?
Super Dad
July 2nd, 2009
10:26 pm
Renaming Gatorade “G”. Product was developed by the Univ of Fla for the Gators. Now it sounds like some crap only some body with metal covered teeth would drink.
Steve
July 3rd, 2009
12:40 am
Dumbest business decision in Atlanta is to sell the hideous looking high priced jeans … Just doing so is asking to get robbed …
Same thing can be said about anyone who fills their bar with flat-screen TV’s …
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sharecropper
July 3rd, 2009
2:19 am
Dear “Beagle Bailey’: just the name itself says it all. some people should not be allowed out of the house unescorted. You are one of them.
jay
July 3rd, 2009
6:06 am
AT&T’s website says “U-verse is not available in your area yet. Register your e-mail address and we’ll let you know when it’s in your area.”
Two months later I still haven’t heard from AT&T, but my neighbor is telling me about the U-verse she had installed last week!
Great marketing tool for AT&T…NOT!!
PAT
July 4th, 2009
9:39 am
Big Boom in NY- Face it your president is only Half Black. He had a white mother and a black absent father!
Big G
July 5th, 2009
9:45 am
The biggest mistake that is occuring is the government taking over business in this counrty. There goes our capitalistic society, hello Marxism. This is what we Republican’s face daily as the minority. The press/media is controlled by the Democrats, so their propoganda machine reports what it is told too. Hence, the questions such as proof that Obambi is an American citizen has NEVER been proven. You forget that Billy Clinton passed legislation so everyone could fulfill the American Dream of owning a home and that it was Bush who saw the trainwreck coming and tried to pass legislation to regulate the Banks and lending institutions from loaning money to people who could not afford them in the first place. It didn’t pass in the democratic controlled congress. Why is that foreclosures are at an all time high?
America will find out the truth about Obambi, his Chicago mafia and Acorn. They are all corrupt and mislead the American people.
You all continue to support this anti-Christ and soon you will realize that America is no longer a respected leader in the world, but rather confined to third world status. Continue to turn your cheek to lillegals that are sucking the life out of this nation and the people who refuse to improve their economic futures by remaining on welfare. These are exactly the ones the democrats want to continue to rely on the government because they are the majority that gets THEM elected.
Frankly, I could care less if Obambi is purple or green, I had the same disdain for Billy Clinton. So, don’t bother playing the race card.
tbone
July 5th, 2009
12:27 pm
After reading all the comments, I can’t remember the question.
Seminole84
July 6th, 2009
1:53 pm
Posted by Chris: “Check your history on Clinton and the ‘everbody [sic] gets a house’ deal.”
Chris – sorry, but no one on this board (or any other) has a memory far-reaching enough to recall that. Kudos, sir, kudos.
This race-card game is funny. Racists, partisans, etc. – what’s the difference? Country would rather have a pissing contest over who to blame than recognize that, sometimes, incompetence comes in many shapes, sizes and colors.