You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
For the past 18 months, the U.S. marketing team, led by Drew Panayiotou, senior-VP marketing, has been working to reframe the retailer's brand proposition. Now it's ready to unveil its efforts. Best Buy's new tagline, rolling out this summer, is 'Making technology work for you.'
You know what's funny and kind of ironic (well, maybe not, but who cares) here?
Best Buy is an advertising partner with Tap Tap Revenge, and they put an ad-supported song up on the game named "Some Nights" by Fun. and it repeatedly asks "What do I stand for?"
This being a question posed by a song supporting a company that doesn't apparently know what it stands for.
As for Best Buy itself, it's got other problems, some of which might have been caused by their branding.
Generally it seems most people I know tend to dislike or not really care for going into Best Buy stores because the service is uninspired and the prices are too high. Maybe it's just because I don't pay for much if I go there at all but I kind of like going, if only because it's a store full of the stuff I love-- technology.
Actually, I don't think it'd be that bad if they embraced a bit more of a nerdy image. Or at least, tried to without inherently insulting it (cough, Geek Squad, cough).
Regarding Best Buy: 18 months to come up with something that looks like a parody of a forward-thinking marketing campaign. Good show, guys. :P I, for one, haven't set foot in Best Buy in years; between Amazon, Newegg, and eBay, why even bother?
You could simply avoid the topic altogether, instead of saying
*removes thenamelesssamurai from Lumine's list, so now only one person is on it* :]
You could say
*removes thenamelesssamurai from Lumine's list* :]
A simple ommision
Alternately, you could say
I am sorry thenamelesssamurai, even though you overreacted to our discussion of TVT earlier, it was no excuse for my over-the-top theatrics
Or you could remain silent on the topic. Out of all those options, you chose the first, indicating that you wished to remind us all that there is someone here you do not like for some reason, even though everyone here had out all this behind us.
The police didn't know how long the body had been there, but it was clear the man was dead. Tucked under a tree, just inside the railings of Homebase carpark, the prone figure was spotted by one of the store's staff as she arrived just before 7am. She assumed he was a drunk who had tumbled over the railings and fallen asleep while staggering home along Manor Road. It was only as she edged over for a closer look that she noticed that his limbs were grotesquely misshapen, and the pool of lumpy liquid in which he was lying was not vomit, but the man's spilt brains.
The area was hastily screened off and police launched an immediate murder investigation. But it soon emerged that a witness had seen the dead man a few minutes before his body was found. A workman at nearby Heathrow airport had glanced upwards to see him plummeting from the sky like a stone, his black jeans and T-shirt picked out against the washed blue early morning sky.
A month after he died, police have finally managed to piece together the skeletal details of Mohammed Ayaz's long journey from a remote village in north west Pakistan to his final, sorry end in the car park of a DIY superstore in Richmond, west London. It is a story of breathtaking courage fired by a fierce hope that a decent life might lie in a distant country where he knew no one. It seems all the more tragic that this heroic odyssey should have ended in desperate bathos on a sunny Thursday morning, in the sort of quiet, affluent suburb in which the young man probably hoped he would one day raise a family.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know what's funny and kind of ironic (well, maybe not, but who cares) here?
Best Buy is an advertising partner with Tap Tap Revenge, and they put an ad-supported song up on the game named "Some Nights" by Fun. and it repeatedly asks "What do I stand for?"
This being a question posed by a song supporting a company that doesn't apparently know what it stands for.
Heh, that was my first thought upon reading that too.
Also this post is probably a jumbled mess because lol sleepdeppostingfromAndroidChrome
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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hoooly shit these are awesome.
Well written article.
*Acquiring comfy furniture
*Acquiring a comfy guy to be on said comfy furniture with.
Seriously dude, lay off it, you sound like you're an 8 year old.
Alternately, you could say Or you could remain silent on the topic. Out of all those options, you chose the first, indicating that you wished to remind us all that there is someone here you do not like for some reason, even though everyone here had out all this behind us.
^ No, but this is something you have to stop doing. It is insanely irritating and I'm not the only one who thinks that.
clear the man was dead. Tucked under a tree, just inside the railings of
Homebase carpark, the prone figure was spotted by one of the store's
staff as she arrived just before 7am. She assumed he was a drunk who had
tumbled over the railings and fallen asleep while staggering home along
Manor Road. It was only as she edged over for a closer look that she
noticed that his limbs were grotesquely misshapen, and the pool of lumpy
liquid in which he was lying was not vomit, but the man's spilt brains.
The area was hastily screened off and police launched an immediate murder
investigation. But it soon emerged that a witness had seen the dead man a
few minutes before his body was found. A workman at nearby Heathrow
airport had glanced upwards to see him plummeting from the sky like a
stone, his black jeans and T-shirt picked out against the washed blue
early morning sky.
A month after he died, police have finally managed to piece together theskeletal details of Mohammed Ayaz's long journey from a remote village
in north west Pakistan to his final, sorry end in the car park of a DIY
superstore in Richmond, west London. It is a story of breathtaking
courage fired by a fierce hope that a decent life might lie in a distant
country where he knew no one. It seems all the more tragic that this
heroic odyssey should have ended in desperate bathos on a sunny Thursday
morning, in the sort of quiet, affluent suburb in which the young man
probably hoped he would one day raise a family.
I'll probably spend all my time in the toilets.
Also this post is probably a jumbled mess because lol sleepdeppostingfromAndroidChrome