• buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    11 minutes ago

    New tag line:

    “Maxwell Apartment, cause let’s face it, you will never be able to afford a House.”

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    I don’t get the advertising idea behind this? Is it supposed to be implying that people in smaller living situations drink less coffee? Is it smaller containers because apartments supposedly lack as much storage as houses?

    Beyond just being a stupid idea from a company perspective, it’s also a stupid idea from a marketing perspective because your marketing campaign is ostensibly supposed to make sense. There’s no correlation between coffee and size of a person’s living quarters, and so it seems that the joke is entirely based on “apartment is like house”. Which a fifth grader could have come up with…

    I hate this timeline.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 hour ago

      It’s basically the waffle house thing but much less clever, and even that was stupid. “User engagement” is what they are looking for. Our talking about a can of burned wood, hamster bedding, and old coffee grounds guarantees a sales increase. People should start boycotting products when they do stupid crap like this to discourage the behavior, but honestly, much bigger fish to fry right now.

    • nandeEbisu@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Its supposed to trigger conversation so people post about it on link aggregators like lemmy or reddit to make fun of it, but also communicate the campaign to a wider audience without needing to spend money on advertising.

  • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    To celebrate the limited-time rebrand, the company is offering consumers a 12-month “lease” of Maxwell Apartment coffee, which is designed save coffee lovers across the United States money. For less than US$40, consumers can stock their pantry with a full year of coffee to save coffee enthusiasts more than US$1000 annually.

    Sucks to not have room for it in their apartments