Via Yahoo News:
“… hot breakfast sandwiches become the first casualty of the company’s battle to win back customers.
The sandwiches, which will disappear by this fall, boost a typical store’s annual revenue by $35,000, so pulling them off the menu will cost at first.”
First, I applaud the team there to decide what’s best for Starbucks [...]
Archive for January, 2008
January 31st, 2008 at 3:47 pm by Ari Shohat
Starbucks: No More Sandwiches. How About The Coffee?
| Business, General Rants, Marketing | 1 Comment |
January 30th, 2008 at 1:13 pm by Ari Shohat
Red Campaign – (AN OBVIOUS FAILURE)
| Business, Marketing | 0 Comments |
Back in March I have seen stories like this describing that the (RED) campaign has been tanking.
That feel good Red campaign isn’t working out after all. It seems it took up to an estimated $100 million to bring in $18 million for the charity effort. Not exactly the best ROI for a campaign of any [...]
January 29th, 2008 at 11:36 am by Ari Shohat
Feed Subscribers Cause Better Blogging
| Blogging, General Rants, Web | 3 Comments |
I’ve been noticing my feed subscriber count growing slowly but steadily. I don’t really try to promote my site with any link bait for the likes of Digg, StumbleUpon, or Sphinn for a long time now.
Side note: Digg’s actually a waste of time, I’ve only tried it a few times just to prove to myself [...]
January 28th, 2008 at 4:17 pm by Ari Shohat
A Better Place for Electric Cars
| Business, Economy | 1 Comment |
Have you heard of the Israeli startup called Better Place? Here’s a story on it. The idea is that instead of refueling for more gas or recharging an electric battery, you actually swap the batteries at stations.
Israel is a tiny country and a perfect developed place to try this. So you get an electric car [...]
January 27th, 2008 at 2:39 pm by Ari Shohat
Quick Weekend Politics – Clinton Gets Abused in SC
| Politics | 3 Comments |
I was watching my kids the other day with no outlets to news until in the evening. This was so because my wife got called to work at the hospital, sucks when it falls on the weekend. But anyway, I only noticed later that Hillary Cliton really got abused at the South Carolina primary polls by [...]
January 25th, 2008 at 10:56 am by Ari Shohat
Why I Got Into Internet Radio – Reason #2
| General Rants, Streaming | 1 Comment |
I got this email today:
Hi Ari-
My name is Dave Walser and I’m the guitarist in the band called Beatlegras.
I’ve noticed that you guys play us quite a bit on the Beatles Tribute channel. Thank you!
Our iTunes sales have been up and I think sky.fm has helped that.
Our pleasure, Dave. Gary has indeed done a great job [...]
January 24th, 2008 at 10:43 am by Ari Shohat
You’ve Heard of Big Foot, Now Introducing the Mars Man
| General Rants | 0 Comments |
More on this here. Apparently a couple of guys in China had nothing better to do than finding a 2 inch rock in a 4 year old photo.
If you are currently not using any kind of a blog or RSS reader, I strongly recommend you give one a try. Whether it is iGoogle, Google Reader, or whatever floats your boat, it greatly saves the time you spend on following updates from your favorite blogs. Why keep visiting a site hopeing for an update, [...]
