Posted on 12/16/2013 4:40:49 PM PST by catnipman
This nauseating ad must be airing hundreds of times per day as it seems like it's on a few times for every show or televised sports event being shown. I can't imagine the amount of money B & N must be spending on this ad campaign.
My question though is what segment and the size of that segment B & N thinks they are appealing to?
I buy online and don't go to bookstores, but have watched with interest as many FREEPers have posted here about the type of people employed by these bookstore chains and how awfully they've been treated as customers. I've always kind of wondered how true that all was, but let me tell you, this ad makes me believe every negative thing every FREEPER has ever said about a visit to a bookstore.
My question though is what segment and the size of that segment B & N thinks they are appealing to?
I buy online and don't go to bookstores, but have watched with interest as many FREEPers have posted here about the type of people employed by these bookstore chains and how awfully they've been treated as customers. I've always kind of wondered how true that all was, but let me tell you, this ad makes me believe every negative thing every FREEPER has ever said about a visit to a bookstore.
Either B&N or their advertising agency took the “Don we now our gay apparel” lyrics a bit too literally...
I don’t care who’s ad it is. I don’t care when it’s on. I don’t care who they are trying to appeal to...whenever I see a red sweater I hit mute and change the channel. Easy peasy.
THis is interesting. I’ve never had a problem with the Barnes here in Santa Rosa and they provide free parking.
All book stores employ odd people. I have an advanced degree in library science and have sought employment at a few book stores and have never been interviewed let alone hired.
To My Conservative Friends: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
To All My Progressive Friends:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2014, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes.
(From an e-mail)
My wife has a masters in Library science and ran into the same situation.
Is this a secret message that B & N bookstores are now open for gay cruising?
Commercials are those things you fast forward past, aren’t they?
Who is Jack McBrayer?
He’s an actor from what was a popular television show a few years ago, 30 Rock. His character was quirky, but not presented as gay. I agree, it’s an annoying ad.
LOL!!! Funny...sad...but funny.
My question though is what segment and the size of that segment B & N thinks they are appealing to?
I really don’t care their ads like a multitude of other companies have only one result with me, I not only immediately change channels but the ads instill such a irritation in me that i avoid them and their products like the plague. How many Freepers are effected the same way?
I don’t really get how anyone of a conservative bent can watch TV. There is absolutely nothing of value on TV and when you subscribe, you support things far worse than this perceived Barnes and Noble thing.
My daughter has a masters in Library science, and I never buy anything from Barnes and Noble.
I met him in person in 1983 and felt he was an honorable guy.
(even if he was Presbyterian)
All kidding aside, here in the Northeast, at least, B&N seems to think regular people are weird and not fit to do business with. Two stories:
On one occasion, I bought two books. The clerk picked up the first one, waved it over the laser scanner, and put it in a bag. Great. Then he reached for book number two. He stopped. He had noticed that it was a Bible. He took his pinky, and edged to book to the laser scanner. He got it to scan. He rang up the sale, handed me a bag containing my first book and said, "So long." I picked up the Bible and put it in the bag, smiled and walked out.
On another occasion (back before she changed) I looked all over for an Ann Coulter book. It was #1 in the nation. It was #1 at Amazon. I couldn't find it anywhere. So I went to customer service and asked what section I should be looking in. She checked the computer. They didn't carry it. But she could order it -- it would be there in 3 weeks.
I said: "It's the number one best seller in the country, and you don't carry it because you don't like her ideology. I can get it delivered to my door in two days, for free, through Amazon Prime. That's capitalism, baby. That's why you're going to go out of business." And I walked away.
No way is it near as nauseating as the Kmart bell ringers. It has got to be the worse Christmas commercial of all TIME!
Both the B&N and the KMart bell ringers annoy the hell out of me.
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