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Thread Number: 74491
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Ghost appliance brands that rise from the dead from time to time |
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Post# 982924 2/15/2018 at 12:38 (2,254 days old) by joeekaitis  (Rialto, California, USA) |
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A little background. Near Procter & Gamble's headquarters is a factory store selling products with brands that are all but dead and buried, like a box labeled VOTE® Toothpaste ("Are you old enough for VOTE®?"). Inside the box one finds a tube of some other P&G dentifrice. To keep a trademark, you need to sell a product bearing it from time to time. Ditto for Burger Chef menu items like the Big Shef, Super Shef and TOP Shef mysteriously appearing for a while on Hardee's menus at a handful of locations in Burger Chef's old corporate HQ neighborhood. Hardee's had acquired the chain before shutting it down.
Recently someone noted a Tappan stove on sale as a "special buy" at one of the big box stores. I've also seen Gibson and White-Westinghouse front-load washers and dryers appear as "special buys" as well as Kelvinator refrigerators. When the sale's over and the stock is depleted, they go back to wherever not-quite-dead brand names go. Oddly, all of the above are Electrolux-owned trademarks. Is Electrolux doing the ol' "use it or lose it" or slapping those brand names on surplus end-of-the-line models? Might they bring them back for good? One can only wonder.
What ghostly appliance "blasts from the past" have you seen, world? | ||
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Post# 982938 , Reply# 1 2/15/2018 at 15:28 (2,254 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Post# 982940 , Reply# 2 2/15/2018 at 16:02 (2,254 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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 Friend bought a Westinghouse flat-screen LCD TV a few years ago ... lower-end features, he couldn't connect his sound and DVD to it quite the way he desired. I bought a GE-branded toaster oven at Walmart in Nov 2005. The thermostat went kaboom recently. I found info imprinted on the bottom stating to call a Walmart phone number (not GE) for customer assistance (which of course I didn't bother). | ||
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Post# 982948 , Reply# 3 2/15/2018 at 16:55 (2,254 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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Kelvinator is an active brand for Electrolux, and used for their commercial refrigeration products. | ||
| Post# 982961 , Reply# 5 2/15/2018 at 19:20 (2,254 days old) by washman (o) | ||
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back in the 90's Kmart resurrected the Curtis Mathes brand and stuck it on some boob tubes and such. | ||
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Post# 982962 , Reply# 6 2/15/2018 at 19:21 (2,254 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA ) |
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Post# 982963 , Reply# 7 2/15/2018 at 19:22 (2,254 days old) by Moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA ) |
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Post# 982964 , Reply# 8 2/15/2018 at 19:45 (2,254 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 982979 , Reply# 9 2/15/2018 at 23:05 (2,254 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI) |
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I had a good chuckle the other day. I was reading some reviews of a Frigidaire refrigerator, and one of the posters said she bought it because she remembers her grandmother had one in the 50's and it worked well for decades. She hoped her new one would do the same for her. That is where I got a good laugh. | ||
| Post# 983009 , Reply# 10 2/16/2018 at 11:07 (2,253 days old) by Steve_B79 (Princeton Junction) | ||
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@ joeekaitis ...where is the P&G factory store, and do they still sell dead and hurried products? What else did they have besides the toothpaste? | ||
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Post# 983012 , Reply# 11 2/16/2018 at 11:15 (2,253 days old) by joeekaitis (Rialto, California, USA) |
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"where is the P&G factory store"
I was referring to an allusion to it in a TV news magazine report several years ago about trademarks and the "use it or lose it" rule. Similarly, the Burger Chef episode of "Mad Men" rekindled interest in the defunct chain with blog posts about some Hardee's locations offering Burger Chef items. The shooting location is in my home town and is now Chris's Burger, sporting much of the recreated Burger Chef regalia. | ||
| Post# 983023 , Reply# 12 2/16/2018 at 14:03 (2,253 days old) by washman (o) | ||
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I remember Burger Chef well! | ||
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