Worst product failures, from Coca-Cola’s New Coke to Microsoft's Zune

Fox Business ^ | May 22, 2019 | Katharine Lam

[nickedknack]

New Coke was considered one of the biggest marketing blunders, but the soft drink company is now bringing back the item for a limited time as a partnership with the Netflix series “Stranger Things.”

New Coke’s revival brought back memories of other product failures from major companies in the past. Here are some memorable blunders.

[nickedknack]

Missing from the failure list: • The Democrat Party • Hillary Clinton • Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer • AOC • 2020 'RAT hopefuls (the entire clown bus) • Mohammedism • Brussel sprouts

[raygunfan]

i love my zune, and it still works and sounds fantastic....

[SamAdams76]

The Zune wasn’t so much a failure, it was just a victim of the massive success and ubiquity of the iPod.

[stockpirate]

FedX ZAPP Mail.

[yarddog]

I think the main reason for the Edsel’s failure was the weird grill. Just too unusual.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Coming to the list soon - driverless cars.....

[Celtic Conservative]

The Edsel concepts were very interesting. But when the engineers and bean counters got done with it they were just reskinned fords and mercurys, and bizarre looking ones at that.The Pontiac Aztek was a very well built car. But it was butt ugly. The Buick version of the Aztek sold very nicely. Under the skin. And in the interior they were very similar. But the more traditional styling saved it from the Pontiacs fate.

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[Henchster]

New Coke
Pepsi A.M. in 1989 and Crystal Pepsi in 1992
Apple Newton in 1993
McDonald’s Arch Deluxe in 1996
Burger King’s Satisfries in 2013
Microsoft’s Zune in 2006
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 in 2016

[Celtic Conservative]

Shake weight.
Pepsi clear.
Any Detroit Lions team after 1957.

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[dfwgator]

Any Detroit Lions team after 1957.

With the possible exception of 1991.

[Celtic Conservative]

Zima.
McDLT.
Donnie and Marie Osmond.
The city of Cleveland.

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[Celtic Conservative]

Conceded.

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[Califreak]

https://www.allbusiness.com/how-et-the-extra-terrestrial-nearly-destroyed-the-video-game-industry-5049-1.html

[dfwgator]

I just remember what a great day it was to be here in DFW with my Lions shirt after we crushed the Cowboys 38-6 in the playoffs.

[Celtic Conservative]

Budweiser copper. I’ve had microbrews aged in whiskey barrels before that tasted good. This crap tasted like they dissolved pennies in old bud light.

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[Grimmy]

Masters of Orion 3.

[Celtic Conservative]

Speaking as a native Michigander they are the perennial disappointment. I want the Lions to do better, I really do. But I’ve stopped waiting for it.

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[bigbob]

I’d put the failure of the numerous Windows CE-based devices that I wasted money on that lost the battle with Palm OS.

[dfwgator]

Kind of how I am, wake me when they are in the playoffs.

[Celtic Conservative]

C’mon folks, I can’t run this thread by myself!