Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Orange Juice Catastrophe
Ok, so I was walking through Walmart the other day looking for some of those strangely-dressed shoppers people keep sending me pictures of, when I just happened to peer into the refrigerated juice section and noticed something odd. The vast majority of the OJ jugs had their tops crushed in. Call me strange, but I have an issue with paying full price for a jug of juice that looks like it went the rounds with Macho Man Randy Savage! My money says the box these jugs of juice were shipped in said "DO NOT CRUSH" in big, bold lettering across at least one of the outside panels. Now I understand that mistakes are made and accidents happen, but when you make a mistake like this, don't just stock the product on the shelf and pretend nothing's wrong. We can all see the tops of the jugs are crushed in Do you really think we just don't notice it, or that someone might actually walk up and say "Hey, check out the new orange juice packaging! They've made them look crush in, what a great marketing idea!" The crushed OJ jugs were so blatantly obvious, I half expected to see a Walmart greeter moonlighting as OJ security, telling everyone walking by to "keep moving, people... there's nothing to see here." I figure the least Walmart could do was mark them down in price. Perhaps sell them as "damaged". Of course the best option would be not to stock the crushed jugs at all, but I doubt you'll ever talk a Walmart store into taking a loss on something... but that's a whole other story.
This is the actual pic I took with my phone of the infamous crushed Walmart juice.
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UUUMMMMMmmmmmm....those jugs look fine to me.....what do you mean?
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