Massive Failures That Didn't Surprise Anyone

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Eric Lund
Nov 15, 2021 5:00 PM EST

It sucks to get your hopes up just to have them dashed later on. That's why it's kind of refreshing when something looks like it's gonna suck, and then lo and behold, it totally does. The feeling of confirmation we can get by universally identify a flop is a nice penance for having to tolerate it.  For some more bad ideas, here are some of thedumbest business ideas people have seen.

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    Font - inksmudgedhands - 2d 9 The movie, CATS. With every trailer, everyone commented how much a trainwreck it looked like it was going to be. Sure, some people thought it would be in the "so bad it's good" fun stage. But, nope. It's just bad. When it failed at the box office, no one was surprised.
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    Rectangle - claireo · 2d My brother in laws fifth marriage.
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    Smile - RKT0710 - 2d 2 2 @2 3 When the guy in Florida (I think that's where it was) tried to walk across the ocean in his home made floating hamster ball and was marooned at sea
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    Font - pbirdman - 2d S Didn't Soulja boy try to create his own video game system? 16.5k Reply Share Report Save RealRaven6229 · 2d One that ran pirated Nintendo games, yes
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    Font - the_brain_gamer · 2d e S taco bell in mexico
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    Human body - imyourcaptainnotmine 2d - edited 23h 2 2 S 3 Having a kid to save the relationship.
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    Font - JMCrown 2d S Any time a friend, coworker, or family member invites you to their mlm party. "Yes, Molly, I'm sure this will be like a full time income where you set your own hours. People will be clamoring to buy overpriced kitchen gadgets from you that they can get on amazon."
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    Handwriting - jayworden - 2d · edited 1d 2 2 That time the state of Oregon tried to blow up a beached whale with dynamite. Happened back in 1970. And fortunately we had video cameras back then. Don't try this at home, kids.
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    Font - JackofScarlets · 1d Starbucks in Australia. A country with a VERY strong cafe and coffee culture, created by European migrants (Italian especially) who found a gap in the market. A country that makes baristas so good they're in demand globally. A country where coffee drinkers have a relationship with their local cafes and care about the types and source of beans... ..and they thought American syrup sugar s'* would work. Starbucks' failure in Australia is used as an example in finance clas
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    Font - No_Significance4311 · 2d · edited 1d S 2 a The guy who built a home-made rocket in order to go to space and prove the Earth was flat. Exactly what everyone assumed would happen, happened. (R.I.P. crazy man.)
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    Font - mywifemademegetthis · 2d MoviePass 8.9k 5 Reply Share Report Save rstgrpr - 2d Came here to say movie pass. $9 a month to see one movie in a theater every day. After using the card to see 80 movies for $60, we wondered how they are making money. They must have a plan we thought. They didn't.
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    Human body - Tha_no2_QuiNit_ · 2d Hooters airlines. Just imagine if that was launched today
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    Font - SadBumblebee9 · 2d · edited 2d 3 3 Target Canada. This will be a business case study for centuries. It was the Titanic of new ventures: pretty much everything that could go wrong did, much of it out of misplaced hubris. I remember reading an interview with the head of Target Canada in Report on Business magazine, published by our national newspaper of record, the Globe and Mail. He was enthusing about how Canadian stores were going to get brand new shelving. As someone who had been in gro
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    Font - they care about what's on the shelves. And there wasn't much. One of the biggest reasons is that rather than go with an established inventory control system such as SAP, Target decided to import its own. Except...they forgot to metricate it, leading to shelf capacities being dramatically wrong for every sku. It all just compounded from there. To save money, Target outsourced warehouse to store delivery. In practice that meant trucks arriving with skids of missing product and more skids of
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    Font - TheNeighbourKid - 2d - edited 2d The condom I kept in my wallet for 2 years
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    Font - I_Consume_Shampoo · 2d That guy who tried to travel to the North Sentinel Islands in the hopes of converting its inhabitants to Christianity. For context, the inhabitants of North Sentinel Islands kill anyone who tries to approach with bows and arrows, and nothing is off limits, even aircrafts.
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    Font - cakeday173 - 2d Juicero 2.1k Reply Share Report Save DisturbedNocturne · 2d I'm still convinced the entire pitch to get investors for that thing was just them saying "What if we made a Keurig... but for juice!" to uproarious applause, and then them realizing they actually had to figure out how to do that afterwards.
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    Font - BigBadZord - 2d Zune. I loved mine, but there was no way it was going to become the iPod killer it was trying to be. 1.5k Reply Share Report Save Swooper20 - 2d "Why would I pay to rent music when I can pay 99 cents and own the songs I want for forever" -me 2006. And now I exclusively use Spotify. Seems they where too late the the mp3 market and too early to the streaming model.
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    Font - Intrepid-Complaint-9 · 2d The XFL 663 5 Reply Share Report Save tangowhiskeyyy · 2d The simple fact is there's barely enough talent in the world to fill the NFL. Only like half the league has a franchise qb, there's not enough o lines in the world, kickers are more rare than qbs, less than half of the league has a defense that does more than allow the offense a few mistakes/failed drives. The gimmick of being extreme doesn't work when it's just bad football.
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    Font - TeamLarge7729 · 2d - edited 1d When the hitchhiker bot went coast to coast in Canada and was then murdered in less than an hour in America. Edit: here's the wiki also correction apparently it was "within the first 2 weeks" though it failed to get through Philadelphia which was it's starting point.
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