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How Did We Go From Smiley Faces To Sun Tzu?
By ernieschenck
Created Jan 15 2005 - 12:19

I don't know which will be more remembered for the scourge it visited on this planet, Wal-Mart or The Black Death. Few companies have taken more of a beating.

But now the company is fighting back with a new campaign that goes right after its detractors [1]. But is this a good idea?

Yeah, the company is in desperate need of an image makeover. But isn't this new campaign just giving its enemies an even louder voice? There's so many other ways they could have gone.

Sun Tzu might have been a genius on the battlefield. But he looks pretty impotent in a blue apron.


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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/14/business/media/14adco.html
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