KFC runs out of chicken
Discussion
Vaud said:
arfursleep said:
Credit to them, that's a good advert.
Their PR response will become a textbook example of how to do it.I recall applying for a job, back in 2001, with a firm who took a full page in the London Evening Standard apologising for being st, entirely on the back of the advert.
Classic case of no such thing as bad publicity.
Regular customers won't stop going because of this, and it put KFC into the minds of people (like me) who haven't had KFC in ages and now really want some!
In a case as laughable as this, where a chicken shop runs out of chicken, then all they can do is hold their hands up and apologise, good response advert.
I wonder how much revenue they lost this week though?
Regular customers won't stop going because of this, and it put KFC into the minds of people (like me) who haven't had KFC in ages and now really want some!
In a case as laughable as this, where a chicken shop runs out of chicken, then all they can do is hold their hands up and apologise, good response advert.
I wonder how much revenue they lost this week though?
Gary29 said:
Classic case of no such thing as bad publicity.
Regular customers won't stop going because of this, and it put KFC into the minds of people (like me) who haven't had KFC in ages and now really want some!
In a case as laughable as this, where a chicken shop runs out of chicken, then all they can do is hold their hands up and apologise, good response advert.
I wonder how much revenue they lost this week though?
Probably not as much as you think.Regular customers won't stop going because of this, and it put KFC into the minds of people (like me) who haven't had KFC in ages and now really want some!
In a case as laughable as this, where a chicken shop runs out of chicken, then all they can do is hold their hands up and apologise, good response advert.
I wonder how much revenue they lost this week though?
All the shops are franchises - So tens of thousands of small businesses are in the stty stuff much more than KFC HQ.
swanny71 said:
I bet it's only a matter of time before some limp wristed, professionally offended tt complains about the rearranged acronym in that apology advert...
I think that apology ad is a work of advertising genius. Which is an extraordinarily rare thing. It appeals to the majority of their demographic, it is honest, it is funny, it is quite brave and bold. I salute the corporate drone that authorised it. Though I do wonder if it was their last act before they went out the door with their stapler?
BilderBurger said:
ch108 said:
s p a c e m a n said:
Dick head logistics, it's what they do. Undercut everyone to get a contract for a few years, screw it up and suck as much money out of it as possible and then move on to the next gullible company when the contract is terminated.
Years ago they undercut a freight company I worked for, on a contract we had been doing for a while.About a week later DHL started phoning our company offering us the same work back, but offering us less money than we had been getting for the contract directly. As the week went on we got more and more phonecalls from them in a panic wanting us to move full loads. They were even trying to demand we done the work for them because the customer would be let down! (The customer they had pinched from us in the first place, by grossly undercutting!)
Even if we wanted to, we wouldn't have been able to do the job at a profit, and shortly after our boss told them to stop phoning as we would not be doing the work. They even approached a sub contractor of ours, who also refused to help them, as they had too lost out on this work.
Nothing surprises me with their tactics and I wouldn't be surprised if something similar has happened on a far grander scale.
Unfortunately for them they done the same to some of our competitors on other contracts, and soon found themselves struggling to get anyone to cover any loads for them in our area.
Edited by ch108 on Friday 23 February 19:24
BrabusMog said:
Pesty said:
Go on do tell even if it’s ground up baby chickens I’m still eating it
They scrape the fat vats and then process the st out of it.I ate bread and dripping and bread and chicken fat as a treat.
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