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The reason there are so many ads is because those advertisers need to sell their products. When your product sells well you don’t need to advertise. When your product doesn’t sell, you usually resort to bombarding the airwaves with annoying ads.
If you ever watched television or listened to the radio you may have noticed commercial advertisements occupy roughly one-third of every hour of airtime.
Quality products don’t necessarily require ads in order to sell. Take Rolls Royce, for example. I have never heard or seen a sales blurb for a Silver Cloud, likely because they normally sell well without the cost of marketing.
Many, many years ago, my sainted wife and I found ourselves with enough extra cash to buy not only a pizza, but a pizza delivered, with extra toppings.
We heard regular ads about Domino’s on television. Being over twenty-years ago, I don’t recall the particulars of the promotions, only that their pies looked yummy, steaming, and chock full o’ pepperoni and other goodies.
We called to place the order, and about a half-hour later it arrived.
Upon opening the box we immediately noticed this large pizza had only two pieces of pepperoni thereon. Two. Only two.
Being a rare occasion ordering food delivered, we were taken aback. Taken aback enough for me to call for a ruling on toppings.
On the other end of the phone was an unapologetic douchebag who clearly told me if I didn’t care for Domino’s pizzas, not to buy anymore. Amen.
I didn’t. In fact, after 20-years, I’ve never bought anything from Domino’s. By the way, if Domino’s sold artificial hearts, and I desperately needed one, I’d go without before patronizing Domino’s ever again. Amen.
In these past 20-years, I’ve seen countless ads for Domino’s. And I’ll wager it’s not because they can’t keep pizzas in stock; rather it’s likely they can’t give them away.
As an aside, we gravitated toward
Papa John’s for pizza. While in
Again, it was as awful as Domino’s. My sainted wife wrote a thoughtful letter to Papa John’s regarding the terrible food we received and the lack of post-sale empathy.
She is still waiting for a apologetic response seven-years later; I don’t think she’s going to get one.
The reason for such awful food and treatment of their customers reaches far beyond pizza joints. Businesses such as Sears, Montgomery Ward, K-Mart, Radio Shack, and a host of others, ignored their customer complaints, too.
All this leads me to point out the fact that private corporations need to turn a profit. Without profits, there is no more company. No company means no jobs and subsequently, no employees. And aligned therewith, no awful pizza.
This is really pretty simple. Until you begin a conversation about “universal health care.”
Often intentionally confused with health insurance, politicians are desperately attempting to acquire complete control over your body and health. The important word in that last sentence is “control.”
No one outside of your immediate family is likely concerned about your health and well-being. Well, perhaps your doctor and insurance company, but few others.
If you give this story some honest consideration you will realize the result of your universal health care will be managed by idiots who could care less about your maladies or life.
The antithesis of a private corporation is government. In direct opposition to profit making is government incompetence and wholesale waste.
It will be those same pimply-faced pizza phone answerers who have since weaseled their way into government positions, from secretaries to senators, that will be sassing you when you need help with a chronic illness or life-changing legislation offering you deaf ears.
And just as with no resolution of pepperoni shortage, or total lack of communication from some arrogant Papa, your government representative will ignore and belittle you when you want and need them most.
Although Domino’s and Papa John’s still spend too much on advertising, and too little on customer care, they remain in business, if only for a short while more. The government is also totally disinterested in you except for your money.
But the government won’t go out of business. And that’s too bad.
