40 Companies That Deserve A “Corporate Darwin Award” For Destroying Their Businesses

Well deserved. In the next big city (Edit: in Germany) were I was living also a WalMart opened at that time. And all friends who went there said it was a strange and underwhelming shopping experience. They said you had to walk miles and miles through isles to only find packaging sizes that could feed a small army but were way too large for a single, two- or three-person household. Mind you most Germans shop at least once a week if not several times a week (especially in larger cities). They are not used to do all the shopping once a month (which might justify larger packaging sizes), nor have they the pantry/fridge capacity to store so much food/such package sizes. Not to mention that it is kind of stupid to buy fresh goods in bulk (in my opinion). Then the newspapers picked up on how WM treated their employees. I made the decision to not support this and never go there. Seems like I was not the only one.

Also we have several well established discounters like Aldi and Lidl so it's not like we were waiting for a Walmart

Apart from the blatant disregardof german labor laws, what disappointed me most was that the did not carry popular american brands. The american section was about half an aisle in a -huge- store; the rest was stuff you could get in any other german supermarket - and cheaper there, as well.

I heard of a Walmart that went to a destitute American city and had to close after a few years because they treated the employees so bad that it became a free for all for stealing. My city has the "smallest" Walmart and they are lucky because everyone lives on islands and often shop only once a month when they boat over.

Yeah! I don't miss the one we had in my hometown. Not at all.

The name was Osborne.

I'm more a fan of the Osbourne Effect that gifts awesome music and a greater appreciation of bats.

Selling an American version of a taco in the home of the real taco wasn't a great idea.

It hasn't been all that successful in Australia either, as far as I can tell. It seems like we are less likely to put up with getting food poisoning. There was another Tex-Mex place where I used to live that had the same reputation. My mum went there once, got sick and never went again.

The best four tacos I've ever had in my life were from a street vender.

Good riddance

Foolish and tone deaf campaign.

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i feel bad for the farmers that lost their livelihoods, but they also make it really hard to empathize with them when their thought process basically was: "i KNEW he would s***w people over, but i didn't know he would s***w ME over!!!"

My farm county went blue for the first time. We have farming in which 1) we've never lost a crop and 2) produces the most of one item in the whole country, so these farmers were doing well (I was a banker and saw the $$$$$$$ going through their accounts). BUT tariffs have fccked them up.

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You'd think they'd have learned from the farmers and small business owners that voted for Brexit, but no....

A lot of interviews where people thought/think the other countries would pay the US to bring their products in. Saddest one was a guy who was arguing until they made it painfully clear using his own import bushiness as an example. The final look of "oh S**t" on his face was something.

It was the same in the UK. Small business owners voted for Brexit and then just tanked their business because they traded with European companies and the increase in red tape bringing goods into the UK and the extra costs that involved just k****d a lot of business'

The sitcom episode mentioned from Only Fools and Horses was actually broadcast in 1992 , so years before this joke of a product was sold

The UK consumes relatively little bottled water compare to many countries as out tap water is usually of a high standard. Some tests have shown that the tap water in many UK areas is of higher quality than many bottled waters.

Brilliant video on YouTube from Tom Scott about this. Link in reply below...

Dasani is nasty, it's got an aftertaste like Philly tap water. Also still water should not pfffft when you open the bottle.

Mhhh, who could this guy have been 🤔? Let me guess, he has an orange hue to him and is now on the way to bankrupt/destroy a whole country?

Then he got himself elected as a US President.

This same person bankrupted 3 additional casinos.

There was also the fact that this "businessman" didn't think he had to maintain his casinos...He thought he could keep the same, decades old decor, of the properties he bought, and that his marks would lap it all up.

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Of course, when Trump does it, it's stupid. When MGM or Caesars does the same thing, it's sound business sense.

It went something like "How can we sell this stuff so cheap? Because it's rubbish, that's how."

Does make one wonder what exact purpose a CEO has. Seems a lot of them ruin a company, get a big payout and move on to the next one.

i remember this one...and I'm in the US.

It wouldn't have made a difference if they did have a noncompete agreement. The Chinese manufacturer would still have broken it and Chinese courts never rule against Chinese companies vs foreign companies. If you want to protect your company's rights and property, stay out of China.

...we had schwinns in the 60s with banana seats and motorcycle handlebars.....soooooo 😎 !!

Schwinn was never good at decisions. They always used non standard accessories, so regular bike shops had to buy parts from them in addition to standard inventory. They also made some of the heaviest frames around. We called Schwinn the Chicago Pipeworks.

I have a Motorola phone. i love it.

*reading this on my Motorola phone*

Motorola didn't "fade away", but got absorbed by another company. The company still produces its phones, but they have a relatively small market share. You primarily find them being sold by places like Boost Mobile.

Would hardly say Motorola faded away. Still making excellent handsets, and they have just launced a mid range Android phone that 5.9mm thick