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GPFontaine
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Apparently when Tropicana made the decision to change their logo it cost them 20% in sales during the last two months.
How the fuck did they make such a huge mistake? And will we find out who gets fired for this?
This might be one of the biggest marketing fuckups since Crystal Pepsi.
http://adage.com/article?article_id=135735
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Teralyx
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Haha, my mom (and a shitload of other people) mailed them about this a while back, and we got a letter back that said they'd change it back, so it won't be here long.
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Syd Lexia
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My mom and I were talking about it how awful it was when the first changed it. It is fucking ugly. The design looks like a generic brand or some god-awful holdover from the late 60s/early 70s.
Guess what assholes? No one cares about the 60s anymore. They were stupid.
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GPFontaine
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
My mom and I were talking about it how awful it was when the first changed it. It is fucking ugly. The design looks like a generic brand or some god-awful holdover from the late 60s/early 70s.
Guess what assholes? No one cares about the 60s anymore. They were stupid. |
Exactly.
This is what everyone I have talked to has said.
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Ghandi
Title: Alexz Aficionado
Joined: May 21 2008
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Bring back the orange with the straw.
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Teralyx
Title: Master Exploder
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| ThatGuy wrote: |
| and we got a letter back that said they'd change it back, so it won't be here long. |
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jackfrost
Title: Cold Hearted Bastard
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I found the picture below in another article talking about Tropicana's new design. It's a generic store brand that looks very similar to Tropicana:
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Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
Location: Lake Michigan
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Yeah, Tropicana is my usual brand, so I was hating the new packaging. It certainly does look generic, and it's hard to distinguish between the different types of juice (w/ pulp, w/o pulp, etc.), because it's not labeled well.
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Optimist With Doubts
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Man if only there was a food forum, this would be perfect for it
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Mr. Bomberman
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The problem is that everybody's trying to be all "2009" with the logo redesigning.
The new Pepsi logo's cool, of course.
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GPFontaine
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| Man if only there was a food forum, this would be perfect for it |
You sir are a troublemaker.
One week this stuff was on sale:
I bought 4 containers and enjoyed it. When we went back to buy more OJ we found that the Tropicana was on sale, so we bought it.
Result: Tropicana tastes like ass after you drink Simply Orange for two weeks.
It took us two additional weeks of drinking the Tropicana to forget how good the Simply Orange was... Is it worth the extra buck per container?
A part of me thinks it might be... $2 per week for better tasting OJ. I think that might become my new OJ of choice.
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
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| GPFontaine wrote: |
| Optimist With Doubts wrote: |
| Man if only there was a food forum, this would be perfect for it |
You sir are a troublemaker.
One week this stuff was on sale:
I bought 4 containers and enjoyed it. When we went back to buy more OJ we found that the Tropicana was on sale, so we bought it.
Result: Tropicana tastes like ass after you drink Simply Orange for two weeks.
It took us two additional weeks of drinking the Tropicana to forget how good the Simply Orange was... Is it worth the extra buck per container?
A part of me thinks it might be... $2 per week for better tasting OJ. I think that might become my new OJ of choice. |
God really? I can't stand Simply Orange. Different strokes I guess. Their grapefruit juice is even worse.
Anyway, everything about the packaging pretty much has been said. Change was idiotic and made them look generic as fuck. Glad they went back.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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I like Simply Orange well enough, but I fucking HATE the packaging. I want something that I can smoosh and throw in the trash, not something that:
1. was clearly meant to be recycled
2. takes up too much space in the trash if I choose not to recycle it
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| SoldierHawk wrote: |
| GPFontaine wrote: |
| Optimist With Doubts wrote: |
| Man if only there was a food forum, this would be perfect for it |
You sir are a troublemaker.
One week this stuff was on sale:
I bought 4 containers and enjoyed it. When we went back to buy more OJ we found that the Tropicana was on sale, so we bought it.
Result: Tropicana tastes like ass after you drink Simply Orange for two weeks.
It took us two additional weeks of drinking the Tropicana to forget how good the Simply Orange was... Is it worth the extra buck per container?
A part of me thinks it might be... $2 per week for better tasting OJ. I think that might become my new OJ of choice. |
God really? I can't stand Simply Orange. Different strokes I guess. Their grapefruit juice is even worse.
Anyway, everything about the packaging pretty much has been said. Change was idiotic and made them look generic as fuck. Glad they went back. |
That real fruit flavor is a bit intense, but I bet you would get used to it.
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I like Simply Orange well enough, but I fucking HATE the packaging. I want something that I can smoosh and throw in the trash, not something that:
1. was clearly meant to be recycled
2. takes up too much space in the trash if I choose not to recycle it |
I've been laughing pretty hard at this response for a few minutes now. First of all, you used the word smoosh, which is awesome. I am not sure if I have ever seen it written before.
Second, the company is too green for your taste which just seems like a contradiction to logic.
All in all, I enjoyed your words.
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Black Zarak
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I actually hadn't noticed, but that is stupid. The old logo was so iconic, of course they lost money when they changed it.
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Syd Lexia
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Being anti-green does NOT contradict logic.
We are supposed to live in the age of convenience. Recycling is NOT convenient, at least not where I live, for a couple of reasons:
1. Trash pick-up is every week. Recycling pick-up is every two weeks. I want that shit out of my house.
2. I am sorely in need of a new recycling bin. I have had the same one since 1995. It is grimy as fuck and cracked. It was free. But if I want a new one, I have to pay $25 for it.
3. They changed the recycling bins about 7 years back. The new ones are 33% smaller than the old ones.
Look Town of Wakefield, I'm doing you a fucking FAVOR by recycling shit. If you want me to help you save the planet or whatever, you damn well better give me a giant fucking recycling bin, and you better give it to me for FREE. And you better empty it out for me every fucking week. If you don't, my plastic can go sit in a landfilll in New Jersey; I really don't fucking care. I don't have to live in Jersey, so it doesn't effect me.
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Cattivo
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Yeah, it's similar for me. All my bottles go in the trash bin with everything else, unfortunately.
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SevereFlame
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Why does the new Lunchables look eerily similar to this?
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Burt Reynolds
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Wow. I'm the only one that thought the new design looked ok. I think it looks more modern, but they did make a major faux pah by ditching the orange with a straw. Maybe they could have vectorized the orange and made it like a flat 3 colors or something. With regards to pepsi, it was a mere modification, and the identity of the product was still very clear. It was definitely a pepsi logo.
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Ba'al
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Good lord, it looks more like medication than an orange juice carton.
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GPFontaine
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| Burt Reynolds wrote: |
| Wow. I'm the only one that thought the new design looked ok. I think it looks more modern, but they did make a major faux pah by ditching the orange with a straw. Maybe they could have vectorized the orange and made it like a flat 3 colors or something. With regards to pepsi, it was a mere modification, and the identity of the product was still very clear. It was definitely a pepsi logo. |
Maybe they should have Obamafied their orange juice. 
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TheRoboSleuth
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You gotta obamafy my avatar. Except instead of hope it should say dominate.
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Knyte
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
Being anti-green does NOT contradict logic.
We are supposed to live in the age of convenience. Recycling is NOT convenient, at least not where I live, for a couple of reasons:
1. Trash pick-up is every week. Recycling pick-up is every two weeks. I want that shit out of my house.
2. I am sorely in need of a new recycling bin. I have had the same one since 1995. It is grimy as fuck and cracked. It was free. But if I want a new one, I have to pay $25 for it.
3. They changed the recycling bins about 7 years back. The new ones are 33% smaller than the old ones.
Look Town of Wakefield, I'm doing you a fucking FAVOR by recycling shit. If you want me to help you save the planet or whatever, you damn well better give me a giant fucking recycling bin, and you better give it to me for FREE. And you better empty it out for me every fucking week. If you don't, my plastic can go sit in a landfilll in New Jersey; I really don't fucking care. I don't have to live in Jersey, so it doesn't effect me. |
We are the opposite here. From Waste Management, I got a tiny little garbage can, and a fucking huge recycling can. I wished they were the other way around, because I don't drink 15 gallons of milk a week, use 200 cans of food in a week, or buy shit that comes in huge cardboard boxes every week. But, I do have a lot of wrappers and trashbags and shit (Litterally, my 1 year olds toxic diapers), that I could use a bigger can for.
Also, fresh squeezed OJ, that you make yourself is best. If that is not an option, then add this secret ingredient to make any brand of OJ more enjoyable:
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Burt Reynolds
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| RobotGumshoe wrote: |
| You gotta obamafy my avatar. Except instead of hope it should say dominate. |
It's a bit sloppy because I rushed it, but here you go:
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Syd Lexia
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| Knyte wrote: |
| Also, fresh squeezed OJ, that you make yourself is best. |
Gross... then it's all pulpy. NO PULP!
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