15 Worst Business Decisions Ever
From corporate marketing wars that fail to compromising on liquor ingredients and paying the price, we count 15 times companies have been awful decisions for greed, ignorance or desperation
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Star Wars,
Cosby Show,
E.T,
Kodak,
Schlitz Beer,
Google,
Oil,
Telephone,
Microsoft Bob,
Apple,
Beatles,
New Coke,
Blockbuster,
M*A*S*H,
Wal-Mart
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August 17, 2014 @ 6:48 am
WUN MIRRION
September 10, 2014 @ 5:59 am
Wal-Mart doesn’t exist outside of the USA while K-Mart does
September 27, 2014 @ 8:17 pm
Minecraft is going to die I’m glad THANK YOU MICROSOFT for killing the
worst game ever
October 11, 2014 @ 6:46 am
What about sony nintendo. When sony was going to build an addition to the
super nintendo and nintendo backked out last minute and sony, out of spite,
built the playstation. Seriously
October 14, 2014 @ 1:48 am
Its strange that walmart won for customer service lol. Cause their customer
service SUCKS. they will literally ignore me and not be where they should
be to help customers. But kmart isnt much better. I prefer target. Its a
little more expensive but its much cleaner quieter and people are always
asking if i need assistance.
November 3, 2014 @ 6:49 pm
Number 11. Mojang letting Microsoft buy them
November 9, 2014 @ 3:47 am
My dad LOVED new coke for some reason, when it was going away, he stock
piled so much that he died before he could finish them. I was digging
around in the attic and found them, there is still 20 cases up there and my
fridge was stocked for a while. It was funny when people drank it and did
not know what was going on lol.
November 9, 2014 @ 1:28 pm
There once was a gaming console created by two companies, named Nintendo
and Sony. However, Nintendo didn’t have much faith in the console, and
abandoned it. Sony decided to finish the project and bring it on the market.
Name of the console? *Playstation*
Good job Nintendo, good job.
November 10, 2014 @ 12:15 pm
Wallmart is the master of our world, all worship Wallmart.
November 14, 2014 @ 2:57 pm
Great list, Danger Dolan…but you forgot to mention Nintendo.
During the 80s and first half of the 90s, Nintendo was the unstoppable
giant of the video gaming world. They did everything right, until it was
time for the successor to the Super Nintendo console to hit the scene – the
Nintendo64, an absolute powerhouse for its time. Better and more powerful
than its competitors (SEGA Saturn, and Sony Playstation) in almost every
way, there was nothing to suggest that the outcome of this generation of
consoles would be any different than the previous. Nintendo would be the
winner, and that was that. Well… it didn’t quite turn out like that.
Going from 2D pixel based games to 3D polygon based graphics requires lots
of digital storage space. For the longest time, Nintendo was making the N64
to be a CD ROM player. But then out of fear of losing profit to the piracy
that plagued the CD rom market, Nintendo suddenly ditched the planned CD
ROM player, and made the N64 console cartridge based like their previous
two consoles. Cartridges are expensive to produce, and had only a fraction
of the storage capacity of a CD. What’s even worse, Nintendo made this
decision way too late. All the 3rd party game developers were already far
into their game projects for the console, thinking they had the 700mb of a
CD to work with (+ the ability to put a game on several disks), instead of
the 8mb of a cartridge (an NO ability to but the game onto several units).
The most powerful console on the generation, had been reduced to something
that equals a Porsche with a thimble sized gas tank. The games that were in
development for the new super console had already exceeded the size of
Nintendo’s miserable cartridges, and the 3rd party developers urged
Nintendo to reconsider. Nintendo replied with arrogance, and basically told
the developers to suck it up and make the games smaller, or start over.
Nintendo thought they were unstoppable, and that they alone still could
dictate the conditions of game development. The results were catastrophic,
and their once so loyal 3rd party developers abandoned the console in
droves, for what would become the new king of the consoles – Sony
Playstation. Nintendo lost their momentum, and the effects are still felt
today.
The story doesn’t end here, though. It actually has a really interesting
prequel. See, a few years earlier, Nintendo worked together with Sony to
develop a 32bit CD ROM player add-on for the 16bit Super Nintendo console.
The add-on machine dubbed “Nintendo Playstation” was heavily anticipated,
until one day out of a clear blue sky, Nintendo decided to axe the project,
because they felt that Sony had too much of an advantage contractually.
Sony were outraged at such a disrespectful treatment from a business
partner. They continued to work on the console, which was later released
as Sony Playstation. Irony so thick you could almost touch it.
November 16, 2014 @ 2:06 am
LOL Blockbuster is still popular in Australia, because netflix for some
reason dosent work here.
November 22, 2014 @ 12:34 am
There was a time when one could get in and out of Walmart fast? I don’t
believe it. Every Walmart I have ever been into takes at least an hour to
get in, get three to five items and get out. It takes at least 20-45
minutes just to get through the line. Takes about 10-15 minutes just to
walk around to get those few items. Takes at least five to ten minutes to
enter the parking lot and try to find a parking space then walk to the
store. I typically shop at smaller grocery stores simply because I can get
in and get out without spending more time than needed. I try to buy locally
when I can to help the little guys. Fuk Walmart.
November 29, 2014 @ 5:06 pm
Biggest fail ever was Obama elected president
December 7, 2014 @ 1:42 pm
ever get that feeling when you immediately regret a decision?
like when you fuck your best friends sister, at his house, on his bed, in
her arse….
December 10, 2014 @ 11:58 am
Failing to purchase Google when they were offered for a very reasonable
price in hindsight must be the biggest blunder you could think of. Short
of energy companies Google must be close to the biggest company in the
world, they certainly have the most reach of any company you can think of
and seem to have their fingers in everything.
Calling Google a ‘company’ sort of undersells it, realistically they’ve got
to be considered a global empire.
December 10, 2014 @ 12:16 pm
YOU FORGOT THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE!!!!!! the first music industry that
taylor swift asked to listen to her REJECTED her…but big machine recordes
acepted her…who is laughing now ?
December 19, 2014 @ 12:37 am
New coke was sweeter than regular coke.
It was more like Pepsi which was sweeter.
Seems all the soda pop has become sweeter, most likely to attract the kids.
I don’t remember 7-Up being so sweet when I was a kid. Now its like liquid
sugar. Disgusting. Its why I rarely drink soda pop anymore.
December 27, 2014 @ 2:23 am
I thought E T stood for EXTRA TESTICLE??
January 3, 2015 @ 9:44 pm
You forgot WWE going PG because a stupid and selfish man going on a killing
spree on his family.
That man is Chris Benoit.
January 4, 2015 @ 7:34 pm
What about nokia, they had a prototype vertion of a smart phone but chose
not to pursue it because their heads of managment thought that people would
use portable computers and or pc’s
January 9, 2015 @ 1:29 pm
The 49ers took Alex Smith #1 overall in the 2005 NFL draft… Aaron Rodgers
went #2. Good job 9ers.
January 9, 2015 @ 6:12 pm
I used “Ask Jeeves”
January 9, 2015 @ 10:16 pm
Kodak was the funniest. One moron can sink a great company.
January 10, 2015 @ 1:07 pm
I think the whole New Coke thing can’t really be classified as a blunder.
It reignited people’s interest in Coca Cola, and made the company millions
of dollars. Meanwhile, according to some people I known who’ve been
drinking Coke since the 80’s, Coke nowadays tastes very similar to New
Coke, but since Coca Cola hasn’t branded it as such, no one cares. Oh the
irony.
January 10, 2015 @ 2:04 pm
New Coke whether planned or not turned out to be a stroke of business
genius that redefined the landscape of marketing. Describing it as the “4th
worst decision in business” has to be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever
seen. Congratulations.