Posted on 12/27/2014 10:10:59 AM PST by Baynative
I think I know where the J.C. Penny marketing team ended up.
Yeah. I understand that. Actually the best pizza I have ever had was at an Italian restaurant by the name of “Angelo’s.” They are closed now. The ingredients were of very fine quality and it was so spicy and good.
This commercial will lose more business than it will gain.
They’ve got a really good pizza place here near me called Rubello’s. I get it occasionally, usually when I have guests, but it’s expensive, and it’s great, but I just luv Pizza Hut’s pizza. So I have no taste! Ha ha ha
Ha Ha ha!
Essential phrase to learn if eating at Taco Bell:
Donde esta el bano?
I think i may have visited a Taco Bell once around 20 years ago...
We don’t and won’t go to taco bell.
Oh lordy.
“I wonder what else we could FIT IN before work?”
Ugh.
“I don’t feel it makes sense to curry favor to the vast minority and possibly antagonize the vast majority.”
Really. From a business/profit perspective, it’s stupid. Why “dis” those who potentially will spend the most money? If blacks are only about 12% of the population, why are black people and families in over 50% of commercials?
I’ve been noticing that so many TV ads are skewed in an attempt to be diverse. For example, there’s Liberty Insurance where a person stands in front of the Statue of Liberty giving a monologue. In one hour I saw four different Liberty commercials — black models in three, a white model in only one.
K-Mart “went ghetto” a couple years ago. Baby commercials are a mish-mosh of every color of skin except white. I’m totally OK with including minorities in ads; it would be nice, though, if they reflected the proportionality of the population. They’d make more money. Don’t they know that?
About six years ago I was eating at one of the fast food places inside a Walmart in California. The walls were covered in with very large and attractive pictures of people — ALL minorities. It dawned on me that there was not one photo of a Caucasion. Later that day I wrote to the manager and asked why there were no photos of people whose ancestors sacrificed so much to create a wonderful country for the others to enjoy. I actually received a prompt response and she apologized, said “I never noticed”, “You’re right”, “Thank you for bringing it to our attention”, etc. Two weeks later... ta da! ... some posters had been replaced and some models even had blonde hair and blue eyes. Of course, it wasn’t in proportion to the makeup of the population, but it was a small victory.
/End of rant/
Good for you!! I must point out though that when the commercials are minorities, that’s who they are marketing to. If they want more black customers, if they want a larger market share of black customers, they market the product using blacks.
I love marketing, but it’s crazy, I must admit.
Taco Bell is low grade food. Period. I would take some local Latino restaurant over Taco Bell any day. Even if I had to get fast food TexMex, Cafe Rio or Chipotle are better quality.
I would say quite a number of the people I encounter at a given fast food joint are minorities. These businesses are aware of their patronage in that respect. Except possibly with having McDonalds’ playing Fox News on their TV screens.
Down here where I live, it’s almost alllllll blacks at any given place. LOL
(near Atlanta GA)
“Later that day I wrote to the manager and asked why there were no photos of people whose ancestors sacrificed so much to create a wonderful country for the others to enjoy.”
How do you know all the people in those pictures were not American citizens and had no ancestors in America?
I liked the chihuahua better.
1. give it a try
2. invite me over to dinner
3. PROFIT!!!!
Correct.
They don’t leave you any wiggle room, normal people have to stop eating there, period.
Done, and have accidentally increased my life span five years in the process.
The models very likely were American citizens; I didn’t say they weren’t. My point is that Caucasions had zero percent coverage.
The heritage of two of my dearest friends out west is 100% Hispanic. Their grandfathers served in the U.S. military during WWII. They speak English only (refuse to speak Spanish). They love this country. They are true Americans. But would their ancestors have emigrated here for a better life if not for those who established the country and its ideals in the 1600s and 1700s? Doubtful. A little respect for them isn’t too much to expect.
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