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.

[Celtic Conservative]

Set me the same alatm.

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[Eddie01]

Socialism

[sparklite2]

Cowboy fans are all class.
You do that in Philadelphia,
and you wake up on the coroner’s slab.

[dfwgator]

LOL, ditto for Detroit.

They don’t say Detroit is where the weak are killed and eaten for nothing.

[ZinGirl]

“The city of Cleveland”. LOL. Thanks for chuckle

[sparklite2]

And Chicago. Where, during a hand gun
shortage, the gangs took to inserting
the bullets manually.

[VanDeKoik]

I just bought one on Ebay to replace the one I bought new back in like 2006.

Stand-alone MP3 players will always rise above streaming for me.

[beekay]

Still love the Zune. One battery replacement later it is still ticking. Use it mostly to listen to downloaded books.
I will miss it when it is gone.

[Sir_Ed]

The McDLT was a great cheeseburger!

Separated into two parts so the bun wasn’t soggy, it was fresh, crisp, tasty and delicious.

I think the greenies shut it down because it used styrofoam packaging.

Ed

[crusty old prospector]

Beta vs. VHS.

[dznutz]

Yep, fans that throw snowballs at Santa Claus, there is no telling what they are capable of.

[lightman]

Ping

[HamiltonJay]

The zune should have taught MS a lesson but nope they still built the windows phone..

[Celtic Conservative]

I worked at a mcds back then. They didn’t sell.

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[drjimmy]

“Keep the hot side hot, and the cool side cool.”

[Celtic Conservative]

I looked it up. We’re both right. It wasn’t
selling, AND the fact that it came in a styrofoam box was the excuse used to kill it. Oddly enough, they changed a few ingredients and sold as the big ‘n tasty for awhile.

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[Billthedrill]

The Galaxy Note 7's only problem was bad marketing. You're supposed to accentuate the positive. "This phone is the only phone that doubles as a hand grenade!" They'd have sold a million.

[Mark]

Barak Obama.

[KevinB]

Microsoft phone. I had one and it was actually pretty good, but no one would write apps for it.

Also, 2019 Washington Nationals.

[roadcat]

Barak Obama.

Hey, I was about to say that! Worst case of packaging ever, faked product, lack of guarantee, and cost more than others without delivering on promises. Worst product ever!