Domino’s Pizza’s franchise in Italy has entered into liquidation

[River 127,476]

it reminds me when I ate at my favorite pizzeria in a city close to Sanremo and 5 American girls ordered 1 pizza and divided it to 5, then they complained that it's not enough, the owner screamed at them "ma vaffanculo"

american fast food is just disgusting

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,974]

39 minutes ago, Economy said:

I know it's not quite the same situation but Target a few years ago tried to expand in Canada and all kinds of hype was created and they ended up loosing Billions and closed less than 2 years later

 

Canadians who knew target in the US I guess with border shopping didn't realize that with a higher minimum wage and higher sales tax the products could never be quite as cheap as in the US

 

Also aparently they didn't seem to try as hard to make their stores as good as in America (according to ppl who shopped in both) probably assuming the market was easier to win over cuz it was "just Canada" and essentially was just a more expensive Walmart giving ppl no reason to go to Target here

 

It was fascinating to see such a miserable failure of a majorly hyped and anticipated corporate entry into the country

 

 

Also partially due to their rapid expansion at the time. Instead of expanding slowly, Target bought up a lot of Zellers's leases when they went through bankruptcy. Because they hadn't built out a logistics network and they were using a new inventory system, a lot of their stores had low supply and sat very empty. Target knew that these issues would probably be present, but did not want to delay their openings due to the leases already being in effect. 

[Guest]

Good. Italy has real pizza.

Dominos is really good though.

[Emvee 8,831]

Ugh, I need a big Italian pepperoni rn 

[DrKindnessKunt2005 6,436]

1 hour ago, Economy said:

I know it's not quite the same situation but Target a few years ago tried to expand in Canada and all kinds of hype was created and they ended up loosing Billions and closed less than 2 years later

 

Canadians who knew target in the US I guess with border shopping didn't realize that with a higher minimum wage and higher sales tax the products could never be quite as cheap as in the US

 

Also aparently they didn't seem to try as hard to make their stores as good as in America (according to ppl who shopped in both) probably assuming the market was easier to win over cuz it was "just Canada" and essentially was just a more expensive Walmart giving ppl no reason to go to Target here

 

It was fascinating to see such a miserable failure of a majorly hyped and anticipated corporate entry into the country

 

 

Also, wasn’t there a lot of Canadian people who were excited that Targets were opening in Canada because they thought that the Canadian Targets were going to sell American products? I watched a YouTube video about this situation, but it was a while ago. 

[DrKindnessKunt2005 6,436]

2 hours ago, dove said:

This is why starbucks isnt big in italy either, but at least is doing better than domino's 

Aren’t the people who are going to Starbucks in Italy mostly influencers going there for the ✨AESTHETIC ✨ though? 

[Guest]

I mean if I lived in italy I wouldn't eat there either so

[nATAH 57,026]

bye pumpkin!

[RodeckDanny 2,473]

good. 

[Economy 52,858]

3 hours ago, TortureMeOnReplay said:

Also partially due to their rapid expansion at the time. Instead of expanding slowly, Target bought up a lot of Zellers's leases when they went through bankruptcy. Because they hadn't built out a logistics network and they were using a new inventory system, a lot of their stores had low supply and sat very empty. Target knew that these issues would probably be present, but did not want to delay their openings due to the leases already being in effect. 

Didn't know about this. Well it definitely cost them in the end

[Notorious Bean 8,538]

That’s good, Domino’s is so bad for you it’s full of sh*t tbh 

[peto flex 2,641]

Dominos is 🤢🤮

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,974]

2 hours ago, Economy said:

Didn't know about this. Well it definitely cost them in the end

I truly believe they could do it successfully now because of their selection of store brand options. Keeping pricing the same for a lower margin and slowly scaling Canada operations. Especially if some of their current warehouses are near Canadian borders and could each hold half a dozen stores temporarily. 

[Ashley 10,236]

I like Dominos  but if I were in Italy I would rather eat real pizza. There’s actually not any authentic pizzerias in my area so most people eat fast food pizza.

[Killa 18,824]

Dominos pizza is awful

Don’t think that in italy there isn’t awful pizza as well. The thing is that, it’s already saturated with fastfood, vans that sell pizza, bakeries that sell square pizza and all those variations. Why would this work. The competition just is too strong and itll have same prices or cheaper