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Annoying TV Commercials 2013 Edition
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Kmart jumped the shark way back when Rosie O'Donnell was doing commercials for them. This is a thread about commercials, so that only seems appropriate.
Sears jumped the shark WAAAY before they merged with K-Mart - they've been in decline since the 80s at least. I live in San Francisco - they closed their Mission District store in the 70s, and their main store on Geary Blvd in the 90s. I think there is now one Sears on this entire side of the Bay. The Sears in downtown Oakland is in a beautiful old building, but the store is a dump.
If it wasn't for Craftsman tools and Kenmore applicances (still great brands, IMO), Sears would be done for.
Speaking of commercials, is anyone old enough to remember the jingle "Sears has EVERYTHING?"
As far as I know Whirlpool builds the Kenmore brand.
And I remember shopping at the Sears Geary Blvd store back in the mid-60's. It was huge and I still have the coat I bought.
The Progressive/Flo commercials I get tired of hearing are the ones where she's attempting to sing poorly worded jingles...badly. The worst part is they're mostly on all the online streaming sites (Hulu, Pandora, CBS Radio Player). It makes me want to rip out my computer speakers just for that annoyance alone. 
Your post has an ad for TiVo Roamio in it.
Someone knows how to give us the right ad.
I tried their cheaper one and it was still too complicated. I had to try an older model that I had to get from Amazon.
Regarding Sears, I was on the phone with them for what seemd like most of the afternoon. I kept getting switched from one department to the other and still got told they closed the office that will send me the bill. Hey, if I never have to pay it, that's fine! The worst part was the man who could hardly speak English who had been warned I had an unusual problem and when I explained it he guessed wrong about what I was trying to do and I told him so, which meant he said if I didn't want his help, call back some other time. And he hung up.
Back to Progressive. I like the spots (although I agree they've been on too much). Flo could use better hair though, but I can live with it.
Speaking of Flo (and Flobot)...
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Flobot-much-381245580
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Speaking of Flo (and Flobot)...
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Flobot-much-381245580
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Back to KMART. I swear SHC is deliberately trying to get people not go to KMART. Several of their recent commercials have been so stupid they are turn-offs. They don't make me want to go there to shop and I'm not just saying that because I work for Walmart. The latest one is the "Gifting Out" commercial for their night time Thanksgiving Sale. UGH!
Well Its Thanksgiving week Expect a barrage of Supermarket ads to show up today for deals on the Perfect Thanksgiving dinner. Then on Wednesday Expect TV News crews at the malls for Black Week. Some Malls in your area may be open as early as 5pm Thanksgiving day in Some areas that might be 12-5am on Friday Morning. But Expect "Discount ads" to be X% off. Geez we really do need to look at ourselves in the mirror more "camping outside malls to be the 'first' guy to get stuff" That is odd here. The Majority of people at the malls standing there need to realize that they are not victims of a disaster like Typhoon Yolanda or Tornado from Illinois or a homeless person who needs to go to the food bank in San Francisco just because he has no house, no job and no family
See Rich Lieberman Post here on this.
http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/2013/11/mike-nicco-help-bay-area-tv-news.html
*Black Friday, Thanksgiving: the vultures are already lined up and it's only Sunday. I would love just one, 1!, media outlet here, SF, to merely open their broadcast with a real news story and offer a quick glimpse of the schlubs at the local Walmart but that'll happen when Tom Raponi and Lee Rosenthal sing Hey Jude.
*Your basic handbook to local TV News Thursday: 1. 4-minute package at Glide Memorial. 2. Talk to 2-3 folks standing in line and waiting for meal. 3. Get the obligatory five-second actuality of volunteer who took time from family to serve the poor. 4. Close out live shot with obligatory reporter telling anchor that Glide serves thousands of meals everyday, not just Thanksgiving.
Here's a thought: why not be creative?!! No knock on Glide and St. Anthony or all the various charitable churches and outreaches which feed the poor, the homeless, on Thanksgiving. Why not do the newscast DIRECT from Glide. If you're going to exploit, and I'm sorry, this is exploitation when you really look at it, shut up, put your money where your mouth is and give $50 grand to the church, all of you, (KNTV, KGO, KTVU, KPIX,); then at least your usual cliché-driven, overbearing, disingenuous opener on Turkey Day adds some real meat to the presentation and isn't another standardized stuffer. And then Glide has the cash to get more stuffing too so see, it works.
See Rich Lieberman Post here on this.
http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/2013/11/mike-nicco-help-bay-area-tv-news.html
*Black Friday, Thanksgiving: the vultures are already lined up and it's only Sunday. I would love just one, 1!, media outlet here, SF, to merely open their broadcast with a real news story and offer a quick glimpse of the schlubs at the local Walmart but that'll happen when Tom Raponi and Lee Rosenthal sing Hey Jude.
*Your basic handbook to local TV News Thursday: 1. 4-minute package at Glide Memorial. 2. Talk to 2-3 folks standing in line and waiting for meal. 3. Get the obligatory five-second actuality of volunteer who took time from family to serve the poor. 4. Close out live shot with obligatory reporter telling anchor that Glide serves thousands of meals everyday, not just Thanksgiving.
Here's a thought: why not be creative?!! No knock on Glide and St. Anthony or all the various charitable churches and outreaches which feed the poor, the homeless, on Thanksgiving. Why not do the newscast DIRECT from Glide. If you're going to exploit, and I'm sorry, this is exploitation when you really look at it, shut up, put your money where your mouth is and give $50 grand to the church, all of you, (KNTV, KGO, KTVU, KPIX,); then at least your usual cliché-driven, overbearing, disingenuous opener on Turkey Day adds some real meat to the presentation and isn't another standardized stuffer. And then Glide has the cash to get more stuffing too so see, it works.
The only one left in my area is 1) near a Target and a Wal-Mart and 2) is extremely overpriced compared to those two stores.
As for annoying commercials, the new ones with Michael Bolton singing for Honda (there's two of them) are horrible. He's no longer hip, and enough people can't stand hearing him.
I never could. He is the male equivalent of Whitney Houston - both are howlers.
I have seen Kmart commercials in recent years filmed in stores that looked so nice that I just KNEW that they could NOT be Kmart stores!
Kmart is closing a store here in the Nashville area that, according to a news report that I recently heard, has been there since 1965! It is not entirely their fault, as that neighborhood has become a high-crime area. I used to live about a mile from that Kmart, until I too, moved away a decade ago. I am sure that that area was probably still fairly rural back in 1965.
I miss the Kmart of the '70s.
Firepoint - They just did the same thing in Waterbury, Connecticut. The store opened 40 years ago. It closed on Saturday November 10th. It was the first department store on Wolcott Street. I called that store Ghetto Mart. They hadn't done much upkeep on the store in years! Let me cite an example - I went to the store to do some shopping back in February about a week after a blizzard dumped 3 feet of snow on the state of Connecticut. The roof of the store was leaking so badly that half the store was roped off including the Men's department. They were using merchandise they were supposed to be selling to collect the water. (You know those giant Rubbermaid Containers people buy to store things in). The store also smelled weird, the floors were dirty, and they turned the former Little Cesar's Pizza into a giant Clearance Section. They installed a temporary door and a master lock on the former kitchen. And the floors were miss-matched.
People say that the Waterbury K-MART was doomed when Walmart opened across the street, but let me tell you something that particular KMART was in decline for years before Walmart was even open and before KMART and Sears got married.
People say that the Waterbury K-MART was doomed when Walmart opened across the street, but let me tell you something that particular KMART was in decline for years before Walmart was even open and before KMART and Sears got married.
Sears and Kmart have been in decline for years, the marriage of two hasbeens is more about real estate than retail
For some reason, the Sears store in the Bellevue Center, a former shopping mall on the west side of Nashville, has been able to hang on for nearly five years BY ITSELF! The rest of the mall closed down following the 2007 holiday shopping season, save for Sears and Macy's, the latter of which left in early 2009, leaving Sears the only remaining store at that mall. I can attest, from working at UPS for the last couple of years, that we have had some relatively large pickups and deliveries at that Sears store. How they manage to hang on is a mystery to me! Further puzzling is that the Sears store is on the BACK side of the mall, not visible from the highway, although they have signs posted along the highway. The Sears automotive store, in an outparcel also on the back side of the mall, is also apparently still doing well, and we have delivered there as well, but even that cannot explain how that store manages to remain. Supposedly the manager there has told his employees that they (the store) aren't going anywhere!
I was going to post about this. There's one version that's not as bad as the other. The radio commercial is always bad.
Thank you. Why do so many people like her?
I do like "Saving All My Love for You" and her duet with Teddy Pendergrass "Hold Me". I can stand "One Moment in Time". But only Dolly is allowed to sing "I Will Always Live You".
Me too. I used to live a lot closer to one. Then they closed it.
The new one is down the street from one of those relocated WalMarts that's bigger than the old one. Closer to home, we had a big empty space when WalMart did that. It was filled, then some the stores it took to fill the space moved elsewhere--at least they filled a space that also needed filling.
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