Posts tagged wtf?
avin narasimhan
often rambling, but hopefully always interesting
Walmart Sneaking Into Groupon Territory?
Caught this today on facebook, and attempting to break a weeks long post drought. Anyway, don’t recall hearing much about it but seems Walmart is quietly getting into the group buying game: 
I guess if it were any other company I’d wonder why they didn’t go the route of partnering up with Groupon and leverage and existing loyal base of fans. But, given that it’s Walmart, and playing nice/cooperating isn’t exactly their thing, suppose it’s not too surprising. Plays right into their singular focus on prices. And I’m sure they’ll see some success through it. Though I have to wonder, is it yet another attempt to crush a startup/existing business through sheer size and scale? Seems so. And it’s the reason I’ll be sticking to Groupon, thank you very much.
iPhone Fan vs PhoneMart Employee
Another hilarious production made possible by xtranormal. This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while, and absolutely worth reposting. As much as I fall into Apple fanboy mentality sometimes, stuff like this is a good reminder to shake you back to reality of how annoying it can be to those who don’t buy into the madness (for more on that, see The Onion’s brilliant ‘Apple Friend Bar’).
And, the fact that this scenario probably isn’t too far from the truth in many situations is an amazing reminder of just how much people buy into this brand.
For better or worse.
Enjoy.
Bad but good: PowerBar and Lamar Odom
via youtube.com
Saw this on heavy rotation last night while fading in and out of a cold med induced coma. This is one of those things that is so, so bad, I have to believe the absurdity was intentional.
Which therefore makes it kind of awesome.
“Get out of my way, Saturn!”
Wow.
Only thing I wonder is— why put this on TV at all? Some smart online distribution would’ve likely garnered up plenty of talk value, positive and negative, and might have freed up some cash for other initiatives so that this didn’t feel so out of place with their site experience.
