“Easy to Forsee Failing”

It could be a new series! Companies that either failed or are headed that way. Companies that, in retrospect, were doomed from the beginning.

Spectrum Cable Outages

The origin story on Spectrum. Originally, it was Adelphia before it was sold to Comcast and Time Warner in 2006. Then in 2007, the company became Time Warner Cable. In…

Bob’s Big Boy

Bob’s Big Boy is a restaurant chain founded by Bob Wian in Southern California in 1936, At its peak in 1989, there were over 240 Bob’s locations throughout the United…

Polaroid

Having been synonymous with ready-made pictures you can see within minutes, they have a rich history of development of diverse photographic media, and were about as synonymous with photography as…

Williams-Sonoma, Inc

I worked for WSI years ago a couple different times – from 2002-2005/6 at Pottery Barn, and then again in 2016/17 at Pottery Barn Kids in both general personnel and…

South African Airways

This is a Story partly about the Current Medical crisis That is occurring in the World. However it is also a story of Government mismanagement and bureaucratic red tape. It’s…

Ferror rochero

Larger company than most people realize. The story of the growth of Nutella is particularly interesting.

The rise of chi fi

Obscure Chinese companies Have been on the rise in the phone market and such but also in the hi fi industry and are getting great reviews, will they grow to…

Sheriff

The biggest company in the breakaway-state of Transnistria. They do everything from grocery stores to gas stations to providing mobile telephony services. They are (maybe too?) mighty and have a…