Don't Miss a Thing
Free Updates by Email

Enter your email address

preview

powered by FeedBlitz

RSS Feeds



By Twitter: @thisissethsblog

Search

Google
WWW SETH'S BLOG

SETH'S BOOKS

THE DIP BLOG by Seth Godin




All Marketers Are Liars Blog




Blog powered by TypePad
Member since 08/2003

« Transparency comes to cars | Blog Home | The netflixing of everything »

Day old sushi

Sometimes you can't make this stuff up.

As the photo below attests, a profit-minded entrepreneur is trying very hard to make ends meet. The problem with this strategy is obvious. It sends the anti-sushi message. Hey, we're not fresh. We don't even care so much about fresh.

If I ran a quickserv sushi place, I'd write the time the product was created on every single box and would offer a local shelter anything that was more than 55 minutes old. The money they make selling the old sushi can't possibly make up for the horror the full-price customers feel.

Dayoldsushi

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451b31569e200d8357e9ad569e2

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Day old sushi:

» Day Old Sushi: A Real-life Reverse Gilmore-ism from Gilmore-ism.com
Seth Godin posted a photo of day-old sushi. Really! And yes, theres a marketing lesson in there. This of course immediately reminded me of the Easter-egg episode of Gilmore Girls, episode 418, Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom! [Read More]

» Fun Scientific Facts - What are you carrying around? from ModernMagellans
Seth Godin wrote a post about old sushi being repulsive. It made me think about the fact that we have trillions of cells that constitute our bodies and added to that we carry around with us 100 trillion bacteria!... [Read More]

» Fun Scientific Facts - What are you carrying around? from ModernMagellans
Seth Godin wrote a post about old sushi being repulsive. It made me think about the fact that we have trillions of cells that constitute our bodies and added to that we carry around with us 100 trillion bacteria!... [Read More]

» Yesterdays Sushi from Wasted Food
Excess food is a part of the restaurant business.  I believe that reducing surplus food is the ideal, but that requires sacrificing either sales (only order a set amount for each day) or convenience (prepare food to order).  Sometimes those sacri... [Read More]

« Transparency comes to cars | Blog Home | The netflixing of everything »