Retail Hell Underground

Clever Toy Ad Paradoy: Planet Online Turns The Internet Into Toys

So what would the RHU game look like? I know there would be a huge skull castle and all of us service slaves as skeleton figures fighting off attacks by hate-spewing custys and evil management....and they would all look like Orcs, the Dark Lord Sauron's arm from LOTR!

KFC Being Smuggled Into Gaza Via Underground Tunnels From Eygpt

Daily What: A courier business based in Gaza is apparently offering an ambitious service to deliver smuggled orders of Kentucky Friend Chicken from Egypt via underground tunnels. According to the company's ads on Facebook, Gazans can get a taste of the "finger-lickin good" stuff for 100 shekels ($30 USD, triple the usual price) within 3 hours of placing the order. Fried chicken is only the latest addition to a long list of supplies and products that are being transported through the network of tunnels, which serves as a vital lifeline between Egypt and the Hamas-controlled region that is currently under an Israeli blockade.

via thedailywhat.cheezburger.com

Jimmy Kimmel's Abercrombie For Fat People With Parks and Rec Star Jim O'Heir

 

 

Scary Waterpark Dive

Meanwhile In The Best Buy Computer and Repairs Service Stockroom

Anyone know what they are playing?

Louis Vuitton Mannequins Go Socks and Sandals

 

14 Retailers Decline To Sign Bangladesh Factory Safety Accord

Huff Po: The deadline to sign onto the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh passed on Tuesday, and at least 14 major North American retailers declined to participate.

The agreement, which demands a five-year commitment from participating retailers to conduct independent safety inspections of factories and pay up to $500,000 per year toward safety improvements, has seen greater support abroad than in the U.S.

Major European retailers -- for example, Marks & Spencer and Carrefour -- have joined the agreement. Others who've signed on include companies recently involved with factory disasters in Bangladesh, such as Swedish retailer H&M and Italian fashion house Benetton. A 2010 factory fire at a facility that made cardigans for H&M killed 21 people, and Bennetton had a supplier in the Rana Plaza factory that collapsed last month, killing more than 1,100 people.

PVH, parent to Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, signed the accord, along with Abercrombie & Fitch, which agreed just hours before the deadline. That leaves plenty of U.S. retailers absent from the agreement, according to the Worker Rights Consortium, an international labor monitoring group. However, some retailers, like Walmart, claim they are working on separate initiatives to improve conditions and workplace safety in Bangladesh.

via www.huffingtonpost.com

Abercrombie and Finch's Reputation Taking a Nosedive According To Brand Researcher

Huff Po: Abercrombie and Fitch? More like Abercrombie and Ditch.

The apparel retailer has seen its reputation nosedive over the past two weeks since controversial comments made by its CEO Mike Jeffries resurfaced online, according to brand researcher YouGov BrandIndex.

(In case you missed it, Business Insider published a story that contained comments Jeffries originally made in an interview with Salon in 2006 saying he doesn't want "fat" or "not so cool" kids wearing his company's clothes.)

YouGov's BrandIndex measures positive versus negative feedback about a brand. The chart below illustrates consumer perception among 18 to 34 year olds as compared to American Eagle and H&M.

Jeffries is now doing his best to remedy the situation. He even posted a rebuttal on Facebook saying that his company is “completely opposed to any discrimination, bullying, derogatory characterizations or other anti-social behavior.”

But the mea culpa may not be enough. Many, including Kirstie Alley, have condemned Jeffries' comments. A YouTube video deriding Abercrombie and Fitch’s self-prescribed cool kid image has already reached over 4.5 million views.

A phone call request for comment from Abercrombie and Fitch was not immediately returned Thursday evening.

via www.huffingtonpost.com

Awesome Kraken Display

Kitchen Nightmares Reject Amy's Baking Company Posts Warning To Thrillseeking Custys

I wonder how many custys will go there for dinner with the "intent" of being promptly escorted away by the Scottsdale Police?

 

In Hell They Are Always Hiring

I don't know if this was before or after Kitchen Nightmares, but at this point, you'd have to have a pretty deep masochistic desire to want to work for those two slave drivers.

 

Random Act of Retail Kindness: Costco Custy Makes Austic Boy's Day

The boy in the superman cape was attracted to this Costco custy's batman shirt. The custy posted this pic on reddit with the title, "Why? Because he's 6, has autism, and he asked me to. Nuff said."

 

Fired Amy's Baking Company Server, Katy Cipriano Answers Questions On Reddit About Her Server Hell

From what I could see on the Nitchen Nightmares episode, Katy was a caring, hard worker and did not deserve the way she was treated by Amy's Baking Company owners Amy and Samy. The hateful greedy scumbags took her tips!

Here's the link to Katy's reddit account where she answers questions to comments.

 

Alternative Cell Signage

 

Monstrous Restaurant Owners Amy and Samy Bouzaglo Reopening Amy's Baking Company

I've never seen such hateful, disgusting business owners in my entire retail career (these people take their server's tips!!!). I'm a big fan of Kitchen Nightmares and Gordon Ramsay in General and he has helped over 100 restaurants. He had to walk a way from these monsters. The hellhole operated by Amy and Samy Bouzaglo was not savable by him because they are selfish, rude, greedy, nasty people that should not be running any kind of service related business. Now they are reopening the restaurant again! I hope it sinks so far into the earth it reaches hell.

Below is the full Kitchen Nightmares episode if you have not seen it. Your jaw will drop - several times...

Huff Po: It looks like Amy's Baking Company, the restaurant at the center of the "Kitchen Nightmares" season finale brouhaha, is going into damage control mode.

Owners Amy and Samy Bouzaglo have hired PR firm Rose + Moser + Allyn Public and Online Relations and closed down their Scottsdale eatery. But like an ironic phoenix rising from the ashes, it will reopen on May 21 for a "Grand Re-Opening," according to a press release posted to the restaurant's Facebook page.

A portion of the proceeds will go to an unnamed charity "organized to bring awareness to cyber bullying," a not-so-subtle reference to Amy's assertion that the restaurant has been unfairly singled out on the internet.

"We are very upset by what has taken place, apologize about the acrimony that has ensued but now must fight back to save our business," Samy Bouzaglo said in the release. "We hope and believe much good can result from what has transpired. We ask the public to keep an open mind as we begin to tell our side of the story."

According to a Twitter page associated with Jason Rose, a principle at Rose + Moser + Allyn Public and Online Relations, the grand reopening event has already sold out.

The Huffington Post reached out to Mike Saucier, a Rose + Moser + Allyn associate handling the reopening, who was unable to offer more information about the event. However, Saucier said more details would be released to the public later today. We will update the post as needed.

Saucier told HuffPost that Rose + Moser + Allyn has experience with crisis PR cases, which, it would seem to an outside observer, aptly sums up what it faces with Amy's Baking Company.

via www.huffingtonpost.com