Dear Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n
My wife happened to like the original Coke Zero.
\nNow you have gone and improved it.
\nWhy?<\/p>\n
Did you not learn from the last time that you improved Coca-Cola. New Coca-Cola turned out to be one of the all-time great corporation screw-ups. A ‘Classic’ disaster, self-inflicted and utterly stupid.<\/p>\n
So, of course, you had to do it again – just to make sure.
\n“Those who do not learn from history are often forced to repeat it.”<\/p>\n
Other companies that made massive efforts to blow off their own foot :<\/p>\n
Whirlpool. The Tumble Dryer Fireball Kings.
\nVolkswagen. A little pollution never harmed anyone (until they were caught!)
\nHoover. A holiday promotion that totally wrecked the company. Flights of fancy.
\nGeneral Motors. Cheaper to settle lawsuits than to fix the fault. Unsafe at any speed.
\nBanks in general. I object to be charged for bailing them out.<\/p>\n
I am sure that there are many more out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n
My wife happened to like the original Coke Zero. Now you have gone and improved it. Why?<\/p>\n
Did you not learn from the last time that you improved Coca-Cola. New Coca-Cola turned out to be one of the all-time great corporation screw-ups. A ‘Classic’ disaster, self-inflicted and utterly stupid.<\/p>\n
So, of course, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-having-a-say","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}