Is it just me, or does the fact WalMart is pinning their hopes on (fake) Kiss and Target is pinning theirs to Pearl Jam seem just this side of bone rattling? Just can’t wrap my head around two historically anti-establishment bands actually penning deals with two verrrrry establishment mainstream big box discount retailers.
I’m pretty sure if Kurt Cobain was still alive, this would be anything but a done deal. Yikes.
Read the horror here.
Photo credit: Yui Mok/PA; taken of Kurt Cobain shrine on Oxford Street, London.
Those of us who live here in the Twin Cities are familiar with The Lion’s Tap, a family owned, decades old restaurant built on good old fashioned customer service. The history of the place is amazing…and the burgers are pretty darn good.
A few years ago, they came up with the catchy phrase “Who’s your patty?” As savvy marketers, they registered the slogan with the state of Minnesota, filed for federal trademark protection, then spent the past four years plastering the question everywhere. Their website. Servers’ t-shirts. In the restaurants. On their business cards. In their ads. And on about a zillion billboards all over the upper Midwest. It’s not unusual to run into a “Who’s your patty?” t-shirt in Fargo, North Dakota or Madison, Wisconsin.
So imagine how stunned they were to find the phrase on a McDonald’s billboard touting the Angus Burger in July, and in television and radio ads ever since. [click here to continue…]
