Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on "How the Stanley cup craze has become a viral sensation" video.

  1. This happened organically. But, if I was a smaller company and I thought my product was great, I'd be sending free samples to these groups / blogs left and right.
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  2. They were selling 1.5 million units before. Now, they are selling 15 million. That's a huge increase.
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  3. I literally thought it was about the NHL. I'm getting old.
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  4. lol, my Dad had a thermos as well. Though I think my Dad was more active than my Mom in the morning and pretty sure he filled it himself.
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  5. Btw, I think we may be conflating brands. I think Thermos is more like Xerox. It's a specific brand, but has morphed into standard lexicon. (There is a specific word for this phenomenon, but I can't remember. Kleenex is another example of this.) Bad internet research says: lower case "thermos" isn't trademarked. Capitalized is trademarked. In 1962, Judge Robert Anderson ruled that thermos was a generic term, due largely to Thermos's own publicization and lack of diligence in defending the trademark. Aladdin (or any company) could mark its bottles with a lowercase "thermos", while the Thermos company retained the uppercase usage. This decision rendered the trademark partially genericized in the US Second Circuit (New York, Connecticut, and Vermont), but it remains a registered trademark in the rest of the US, and in over 100 other countries.
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  6.  @TheSouthIsHot  Nope. This is...my old AOL screenname, lol. (But, it was really my roommates, but I stole the account.)
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  7. In theory, they could get caught on some of the colors, but I'd imagine most companies are using JIT now. The lead times on these are probably pretty short. Forecasting "basics" ie things aren't seasonal items are pretty easy to trend out. Seasonal 1 time items are way harder. (Used to work in a very large apparel corporation and our department had basics and seasonal items.)
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  8. I was thinking that was likely the impetus. 10+ years ago, we didn't care that much about plastic etc. Just assumed they would recycle plastic properly. I literally would have 1 case of water and 1 case of vitamin water just sitting on my back shelve in my office at all times (would refill every week).
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  9.  @michaelrmurphy2734  I did some bad internet research. There was a court case in 1962. "thermos" lowercase is allowed by anyone. Capitalized is trademarked.
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