Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!shelby.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Burger King returns Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:33:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Subtlties R'nt Us Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <2006121612405450073-xxx@yyyzzz> <2006121710525350073-xxx@yyyzzz> <200612171326088930-xxx@yyyzzz> <2006121719094450073-xxx@yyyzzz> Reply-To: mtfester@netscape.net NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.stanford.edu X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1166416390 11145 171.67.16.19 (18 Dec 2006 04:33:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu User-Agent: tin/1.7.8-20050315 ("Scalpay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i686)) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:164783 gtr wrote: > On 2006-12-17 14:01:04 -0800, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net said: > > Insightful comments like "I don't like it, therefore it will fail" > "You and bureaucrats are all wrong about everything" isn't insightful > either, Which is nice; who said that? > I don't like it, it's true, I saw them fail in my community. I assume > they will fail elsewhere due, because I live in a broad and diverse > community, not because I don't like them. Hel, I'd generally assume my > tastes are at the end of any bellcurve. > I read news articles two years ago that indicated they had expanded too > rapidly and sold their doughnut like a $100 tennis shoe. Admittedly Right; which doesn't mean the mistakes will be repeated in Japan. > Where are you that it's a boom market? It's called "California". > In the end do you think that doughnuts have the universal appeal that > coffee and hamburgers have? It doesn't need to have a "universal appeal"; they're trying to sell to the Japanese. > > ...are on a par with the above-mentioned Japanese bureaucrats who, esteemed > > though they may be, were remarkably inaccurate in their assessments of > > what would do well in Japan. > I may know nothing, and you may know nothing, but of course we're both > brilliiant compared to thousands of esteemed Japanese bureaucrats, Sorry, you're becoming surreal at this point. Mike