Monday, July 7, 2008
Pizza Wars
It finally had to happen. Back in the 70s and 80s at major intersections in cities across the country gas wars would occur as competition was hot and furious as Gas Vendors plied their trade in attracting customers to their front door. Prices would change daily and sometime hourly as each business owner would try to attract customers into their pumps. With gas at $4.00/gal. not much is heard about competition in gas vending these days.
My heart did do a pitter-patter as I drove through a major intersection in my home-town of Fishers today. Economics, supply and demand, and marketing were all playing at this intersection. As background- this particular corner has at least 6 different pizza vendors withing garlic distance of said corner- so much for background.
Over the past months the managers/owners of these franchises have sent out unfortunate employees with placards advertising their pizza wares. Using the phrase unfortunate may not be appropriate as the young people hoisting the placards seem to be enjoying themselves.
Those that I have observed normally have a music device (I will not name names) of some sort and they are performing some sort of dance. My concern is are they performing the appropriate Pizza Dance for their company? Who is observing them to make sure they make the right moves? Is it possible that one performer (can I call them performers?) is stealing a trademarked Pizza Step from one of the competition? Who would know?
As of today's date there has not seemed to be any aggression observed as I drive through this intersection. I believe it will be only a matter of time before placards will be thrown down and pizza cutters will be drawn at ten paces. Hopefully it will only be tomato sauce that is spilt....jsf
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Just as an FYI- Forbes.com had listed Hamilton County, Indiana as the number 1 county to live in here in the good old US of A. To browse through the article go here.
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If only I had your quick wit ... with my political views and said wit I could really go places! This is fantastic, I vote for the draw - I'm partial to Papa M's!!
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