Worst Marketing Decision Ever: Drycleaner Puts

[boston bean]

There is a branch of anti-choice activists that will use pretty much anything as a medium for their message: newspaper ads, graphic signs displayed in front of schools, bus stop benches. You would think they would know well enough to leave one place untouched, though. Wire coat hangers.

You would be wrong.

Springdale Drycleaners of Cincinnati, Ohio, has been etching "Choose Life" ads on wire coat hangers used to hang dry-cleaning.

What's worse is that this seems to be an ongoing effort. Reports of the "choose life" coat hangers already were on the internet back in March of 2011, when Joe.My.God posted a picture of the hanger then. And before that on Regretsy in 2010. So despite over two years of attention, the business continues to think this is an excellent cross-advertising campaign. In fact, the practice was losing them customers as far back as August of 2010, but still the dry-cleaner continues to use hangers as a place to offer inappropriate propaganda.

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/12/07/worst-marketing-decision-ever-drycleaner-puts-pro-life-message-on-their-hangers



What a bunch of frigging creeps...

[SomethingFishy]

1. Are they irony impaired?

Or is it some kind of sick sense of humor?

This is too bizarre for words.

[RC]

2. Most likely never made the connection.

[boston bean]

7. yeah, right....

[coalition_unwilling]

3. Coffee meet monitor. No fair :) - n/t

[Solly Mack]

4. Damn

That's just wrong.

[onehandle]

5. I Am Stunned. nt

[gollygee]

6. I never thought I'd see a wire coat hanger used to promote the anti-abortion cause

But oooooooooookay.

[freshwest]

8. They know exactly what they're doing. Just can't keep their minds out of women's lady parts. Sick.

[boston bean]

9. Yep, they do. what a buncho f sicko's. nt