Comments on: Photo of the day: Tropicana grocery display http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/05/05/photo-of-the-day-tropicana-grocery-display/ Improving the human experience one day at a time Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:40:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matthew Knell http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/05/05/photo-of-the-day-tropicana-grocery-display/comment-page-1/#comment-3518 Matthew Knell Mon, 11 May 2009 23:41:56 +0000 http://whitneyhess.com/blog/?p=1422#comment-3518 At least the customers "won" when PepsiCo pulled the package. Good UX applies to everything. At least the customers “won” when PepsiCo pulled the package. Good UX applies to everything.

]]> By: Whitney Hess http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/05/05/photo-of-the-day-tropicana-grocery-display/comment-page-1/#comment-3499 Whitney Hess Sun, 10 May 2009 01:13:24 +0000 http://whitneyhess.com/blog/?p=1422#comment-3499 It's funny you mention this because I spent 20 minutes looking at the bottom<br>row of that Tropicana display trying to figure out if it was indeed OJ (the<br>flash made it hard to tell). There was a sign noting grapefruit juice on the<br>second row, but after close inspection there are no grapefruit juice<br>cartoons in the pic. I was kind of hoping there were so I could point out<br>exactly what you're talking about. There are also varieties of OJ mixed with<br>other juices, like Tangerine, and the astonishing thing is that they're<br>still marked as "100% Orange" with text beneath that says "and Tangerine" --<br>that math does not add up!<br><br><img src=" <br><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TerE87hZIzk/SWPT-OHAslI/AAAAAAAABXM/ItyEEY32iSI/s3" rel="nofollow">http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TerE87hZIzk/SWPT-OHAs...</a><br>20/100_7340.jpg" class="center"> It's funny you mention this because I spent 20 minutes looking at the bottom
row of that Tropicana display trying to figure out if it was indeed OJ (the
flash made it hard to tell). There was a sign noting grapefruit juice on the
second row, but after close inspection there are no grapefruit juice
cartoons in the pic. I was kind of hoping there were so I could point out
exactly what you're talking about. There are also varieties of OJ mixed with
other juices, like Tangerine, and the astonishing thing is that they're
still marked as “100% Orange” with text beneath that says “and Tangerine” –
that math does not add up!

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]]> By: Orian Marx http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/05/05/photo-of-the-day-tropicana-grocery-display/comment-page-1/#comment-3434 Orian Marx Tue, 05 May 2009 18:50:36 +0000 http://whitneyhess.com/blog/?p=1422#comment-3434 What was even more interesting to me were the non-OJ packages. The original cartons showed images of whatever kind of fruit was used, including mixed fruit drinks like strawberry-peach-banana-whatever. The new design only showed the color of the liquid (which was always somewhere between yellow-orange-pink) and text to describe the contents. What was even more interesting to me were the non-OJ packages. The original cartons showed images of whatever kind of fruit was used, including mixed fruit drinks like strawberry-peach-banana-whatever. The new design only showed the color of the liquid (which was always somewhere between yellow-orange-pink) and text to describe the contents.

]]> By: Aaron http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/05/05/photo-of-the-day-tropicana-grocery-display/comment-page-1/#comment-3433 Aaron Tue, 05 May 2009 18:38:19 +0000 http://whitneyhess.com/blog/?p=1422#comment-3433 Yep, big design fail. I snapped a similar photo on my blog. But the lone, orphaned package design in this photo is priceless! Yep, big design fail. I snapped a similar photo on my blog. But the lone, orphaned package design in this photo is priceless!

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