by snarly | Nov 13, 2013 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies
We tried to relegate Lululemon’s last dimwitted apology to our Facebook page (feel free to “like” it to enjoy apologies we do not deign to cover at length here) but Lululemon, like a bunny-boiling anti-feminist icon, will not be ignored. When last we...
by snarly | Nov 11, 2013 | Corporate Apologies, Other Apologies
Home Depot, oy. Last Thursday, at 12:24PM EST, Harvard Law student Jonathan Wall grabbed a screen shot of a horrifyingly racist, bizarre tweet from Home Depot. At 3:30 PM EST, Home Depot tweeted him back: “We have zero tolerance for anything so stupid and...
by snarly | Nov 5, 2013 | Corporate Apologies, Historical Apologies, Other Apologies
Sorry we linked our decadent spa treatments with that time your Torahs and businesses were set on fire and your people got killed and whatnot! The German spa Kristall Sauna Wellnesspark apologized for running an ad for a “long, romantic Kristallnacht,” scheduled for...
by sumac | Oct 25, 2013 | Corporate Apologies
Two men went into the fancy British department store Selfridge’s to look at jeans. One was Tommy Robinson (aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon), then leader of the English Defence League. The non-Robinson asked to see some jeans. The clerk asked if he was with Robinson,...
by sumac | Oct 22, 2013 | Corporate Apologies
Earlier in October, the USDA figured out where people were getting a nasty kind of salmonella. It’s resistant to many antibiotics. So far, 338 cases have been reported, and 40% of those people had to be hospitalized. It’s called Salmonella Heidelberg. They...
by snarly | Oct 5, 2013 | Corporate Apologies, Other Apologies
Sorry we’re late to the noodle-sucking party! As you probably know, since the SorryWatch community sent us dozens of emails about it, the chairman of Barilla pasta last week told an Italian radio show that Barilla “likes the traditional family” so there...