In the most shocking news of last week, Men’s Wearhouse Inc. fired their founder and CEO George Zimmer. Who is Zimmer? He’s the extremely likable guy you’ve seen on their television spots since 1986!... “You’re going to like the way you look!” As pitchmen go, I’d say he ranks third behind Billy Mays and Dave Thomas, and I’d call this a HUGE mistake. Apparently a well-deserved consumer backlash is already building.
It’s interesting to me that certain people manage to become so likeable, that the public actually cares personally about them. Walt Disney had it. Arguably, Lee Iaccoca had it. Reagan had it too. I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone else though. That's pretty select company.
What I think each of these people had in common was a 100% positive outlook on life, a love for people, and something about them that said they wanted to make the world better for everyone else, and people responded by considering them friends even though they only knew them through their televisions.
So anyway, get your pitchforks and let’s burn down a few Men’s Wearhouses in support of George! :D
What? Too much?
Saw Monsters University with my family yesterday. Its a good movie with lush visuals and a great message but its kind of lightweight. It is often more amusing than funny and as one might expect a lot of the jokes and references will sail over the heads of people who aren't familiar with campus comedies (kids).
ReplyDeleteStill, Sully and Mike are great characters and the ending was really something. This is an enjoyable movie worth seeing even if it isn't top tier.
Anthony, I find that a lot with animated films these days -- more amusing than funny.
ReplyDeleteMore amusing than funny, sadly describing all of Pixar's sequels which don't have Toy Story in their titles.
ReplyDeleteAs to Men's Wearhouse, I've been itching to burn any of them down (metaphorically) since they showed support for the Occupy crowd. Good a time as any, cloaking it in AP's support for Zimmer.
"More amusing than funny, sadly describing all of Pixar's sequels which don't have Toy Story in their titles."
ReplyDeleteI thought this one was quite funny, but nowhere near Pixar's best.
At least the NSA, FBI and the IRS will all know when you bought a suit.
ReplyDeleteEric, I'd heard that as well, which is too bad. Still, he's very likable despite his politics. So let's agree to agree to burn their stores down! :D
ReplyDeleteMax, NSA knows all. They just don't know what to do with all they know. :D
ReplyDeleteI'm mostly dismissive of whether someone supported the Occupy movement. They merely wished for it to be something other than what it was--which was a confused, unwashed, defecating mob.
ReplyDeleteTo me, it's a litmus test for willful blindness. Occupy's supporters really wanted a populist movement to take on the excesses of Big Government in alignment with Big Business (and vice versa). But they couldn't bring themselves to align with red-state hicks from the Tea Party.
Now, Occupy is dead and the Tea Party only lives on as a disjointed array of right-wing interest groups.
BTW, lemme boost a couple of suits before you set 'em off.
ReplyDeleteI know what they are going to do with the data.
ReplyDeletePoint and laugh, hey look Napolitano is wearing boxers.
They're talking on the Sunday shows about "addition" as it relates to quantitative easing. Encouraging except for the fact that it's just one more instance of the libs finally admitting to what conservatives foretold before it was ever tried.
ReplyDeleteI suppose it's part of the American process as Churchill described it: We'll always do the right thing--after we've exhausted all the alternatives. It's just disheartening to realize that part of that process is outright rejecting the right thing rather than blind trial and error.