outdoor – The Museum Of Marketing Madness

Conserve Energy By Crushing Lightbulbs

Someone selected the wrong stock graphic for this pipe insulation utility truck.

We Can Read Your Mind And You Need Pipes Covered

Maybe they’re saying, if you put lightbulbs into these gears we can crush and pulverize them and that will save you energy because you won’t have lightbulbs anymore.

Crush Lightbulbs In Gears — image courtesy of New Age Images of Heads

Sometimes Marketing Madness Gets Papered Over By Social Distancing

They could have made a sign big enough to cover up the elevator ad in this hotel promoting their meeting spaces.

Elevator Bank 1 Elevator Bank 2 Elevator Bank 3

But, ahh, it’s a Global Pandemic! Just don’t kill each other okay?? We can meet in a conference room later.

And if you read the signs carefully through elevator banks 1, 2 and 3 you can see that they are talking about “Meeting in style in the heart of the Main Line.” Oh yeah that…

SHHH!! They’ll Never Know We’re Not Whole Foods!

I wonder if the owner of this bodega on the Lower East Side was like:

“What the hell? If we get just a few more customers wandering in because they think we’re Whole Foods, it’ll be worth getting the name.”

Whole Sorta Like Foods Almost

And, that children, is how The Wholesome Foods Bodega got its name! Okay, everybody night night!!

Store Window Display Task Host Force Restart

The window display of the Loft store at one of the most prominent locations on planet earth, 42nd and Broadway, should make a strong impression. Ground Zero For Shopping NYC

But what is this? It looks … hmm … can’t really see much on display here.

Look in the window ... it's ... nothing! Well now wait a second, there is SOMETHING.

Yes it’s a Windows Error in the Window.

Vitamins, Shmitavins! Highlight The Exotic Ingredient

Roman can only make so much money as yet-another-joint-delivering-Viagra-to-your-door, so why not vitamins? BUT, vitamins are so … A, B, B12, C. And if they list out the ingredients that’s just not as cool with the slick graphics and photos.

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