Here's a testament to the end of yet another industry in Kansas City as Hallmark goes the way of Kodak.
Check it:
Detours: Hallmark, Kansas City, and the decline of the greeting card industry
Youtube deets from The Verge:
"When was the last time you got a paper card in the mail? It's been a long time for us here at The Verge. We wanted to find out what the world's largest greeting card company, Hallmark, was doing to stay competitive with smartphones and the internet, so we headed to its headquarters in Kansas City to find out."
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Digital Media isn't killing anything. Except itself.
ReplyDeleteGood morning NSA how's surfing and phone calls today!
Where did everyone go?
Traditional everything will do fine once the remaining pieces of the bankster, housing, and finance bubble (08) hit the ground. Oh and the current bubble don't forget that.
ReplyDeleteThe NSA paid millions of dollars to Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Facebook to cover the cost of its illegal activity AFTER the courts ruled that what it was doing was unconstitutional and they could not separate domestic surveillance from pretended international. What is going on is the companies involved are WILLINGLY turning over your info and lying to everyone about it.
ReplyDeleteNow, back to the privacy of my horrible newspaper.
Even Tony is tracking you.
ReplyDeleteWhen was the last time I got a greeting card is the mail?
ReplyDeleteIt's been a few months.
When was the last time I received a greeting card?
All the time. People who actually have friends and are sociable give cards all the time.
Hallmark isn't dying, people being sociable outside a computer screen is dying. Kind of sad.
Every fancy new gadget toy of the past 200 years has promised to 'serve' mankind - and what have we got to show for it: NA-DA. They still can't cure the common cold; cancer is a mysterious multi-factorial disease (my favorite mumbo-jumbo from quack researchers); climate change cannot be stopped - this computer will do nothing to help anyone except provide great playtime for a bunch of eggheads, who probably think Chocolate Beer and Food Trucks are a great achievement.
ReplyDeletechuck says:
ReplyDeleteBlame everything on the blacks
in America.
They're the reason hallmark is
having problems.
Blacks don't buy greeting cards
because they're robbing people
all the time.
I hate them. Maybe they can
all be put in jail.
My head explodes everytime I
read about all the non-white
people in America doing better
than I am.
I'm sorry. I'm old and angry.
Its ok that you're old and angry, just please do us a favor and dont vote. and dont call the cops on some neighbor kids for smoking a doobie. i had that happen to me in leawood, and have hated the mentality of most old white people ever since. at least enough so that i dont think they should get to vote. no one over 50 should vote.
ReplyDeleteNobody will miss Hallmark. Not even most of the employees.
ReplyDeleteIts because they are a big sprawling company that is the punchline for jokes about sentimentality. In a small city like KC where people are more and more interested in handmade locally made products, Hallmark is kind of lame. I get cards for all occasions at Hammerpress so I dont think its really an issue of blaming the internet here.
ReplyDeleteNew and cool>Lame
When's the last time a nigger thug bought a card???? NEVAH!!!!! NIGGER DONT BY DE CARD WE BE LIFTIN IT, DAT JUS FO MAMA. MA BITCHS AN HO'S NO WHEN I CUM IN DEY MOUTH DEY BE SPAECIAL!!!! really bitch it true.
ReplyDeleteAmerican Greetings already sells more card units than Hallmark. By 2018, American Greeting will sell more card $ than Hallmark. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER HALLMARK OR LOSE YOUR PLACE AS THE INDUSTRY LEADER!
ReplyDeleteDon't worry the Internet Stasi isn't going to harm anyone. Even though they now know more about you than you do yourself in many cases.
ReplyDeleteThis NSA surveillance is greatly exaggerated. If all of our phone calls were monitored & all of our email read, then half the population would be working on this. Rather the aggregate is treated like a database & algorithms are run through it in the hope of finding useful information. If you only call your local friends then you won't even show up on their radar.
ReplyDeleteByron makes a good point. There is a lot of paranoia out there and it just plays in to fear. Most people aren't worth spying on.
ReplyDeleteHall made a huge mistake by attempting to blackmail voters.
ReplyDeleteOn a website filled with stupid comments, the comments on this article take the cake.
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