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WSJ:The Top Five Product Flops of 2013-Can You Believe It? ObamaCare #4! LOL!
Wall Street Journal ^
| January 2, 2014
| Jim Jelter
Posted on 01/08/2014 8:08:02 PM PST by lbryce
For every hot product launch in 2013, there has also been a high-profile launch that was a miserable failure. MarketWatch's Jim Jelter takes a look at the top five of the flops.
(Excerpt) Read more at live.wsj.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackberry; healthcaregov; obaadoesntcare; obamacarefailure; obamadeathcare
As I was watching the video, I was thinking that I would post it and then rhetorically ask, Where's ObamaCare? I nearly fell out of my chair when the failure of Number 4 turned out to be God's answer to my prayers!
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posted on
01/08/2014 8:08:03 PM PST
by
lbryce
To: lbryce
The list for the curious:
1: Wii U
2: Lululemon Yogapants
3: Blackberry Q10
4: Obamacare
5: HP Chrome 11 Laptop
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posted on
01/08/2014 8:13:39 PM PST
by
Wayne07
To: MrShoop
2: Lululemon YogapantAh, yes. The see-through yoga pants.
People really should kept quiet about this one!
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posted on
01/08/2014 8:18:41 PM PST
by
Drew68
To: Drew68
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posted on
01/08/2014 8:30:04 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: MrShoop
Any product with a name like Weee-Yooooo doesn’t quite ring right with me.
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posted on
01/08/2014 8:38:19 PM PST
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
To: GeronL; Drew68
ugh Now look what ya done, Drew. You done gone and grossed out Geron. Tsk, tsk.
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posted on
01/08/2014 8:47:26 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Drew68
Pictures? Or would they make me vomit?
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posted on
01/08/2014 8:59:46 PM PST
by
VerySadAmerican
(".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
To: MrShoop
I hadn’t even heard of the first two, and already knew Blackbery was toast before this last attempt. The HP 11 reminded me of the really funny Microsoft ad on TV where the girl tries to hock her Chromebook but the “Pawn Stars” won’t give her squat for it because “it’s not a real laptop because it doesn’t have Office or Windows”.
So that really just leaves Obamacare, the all time weener and champeen looser...
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posted on
01/08/2014 9:16:35 PM PST
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: VerySadAmerican
Well I did read the stores had a policy of hiding or not stocking larger sizes to discourage er, certain body types from shopping there....
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posted on
01/08/2014 9:30:20 PM PST
by
Kozak
("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms in Dixie!)
To: VerySadAmerican
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posted on
01/08/2014 9:32:23 PM PST
by
Kozak
("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms in Dixie!)
To: MrShoop
Thank you for the list.
Why can’t they just give a list and then, if we want to spend 4 minutes watching a video, then we can do that.
To: MrShoop
Blackberry Q10 is on the list, but the Telsa is not? Q10 is nice and so is a Chomebook.
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posted on
01/09/2014 3:36:29 AM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(2014theyearofdeadRINOs)
To: MrShoop
2: Lululemon Yogapants There are rules you know.
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posted on
01/09/2014 7:24:14 AM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take your home to pay for it.)
To: Kozak
I’m glad about your post #9. I’d hate to see Moochelle in a pair of those.
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posted on
01/09/2014 1:44:20 PM PST
by
VerySadAmerican
(".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
To: Kozak
On that chick they look good, on Michele not so much.
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posted on
01/09/2014 1:48:21 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: ExCTCitizen
The Chromebook was as very popular item but considered a failure not because of the product itself which was very highly regarded but because it was subject to a product recall as a result of chargers having exploded, burst into flames. The Chromebook is expected to be reintroduced once the problems are resolved.
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posted on
01/09/2014 2:45:24 PM PST
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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