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1-800-Flowers botches Valentine's Day - and apology, too - Feb. 16, 2014
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2014 Feb 17, 7:21am 815 views 1 comment
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2014 Feb 17, 8:19am
This reminds me of the SNL sketch about the package delivery company for "When it absolutely, positively, has to be there the day before yesterday." I suspect that many guys forgot to send flowers, or sent flowers to someone who didn't want them, and they're blaming 1-800-Flowers and maybe somebody there has agreed to take the blame - great revenue model.
The surprising OP attempt to resurrect Obamacare is self-defeating though. Nobody is legally mandated to use a particular online florist or store. Everybody is legally mandated to comply with Obamacare. When you mandate people to do something, and it turns out to be a disaster, you can't defend the mandate by saying the disaster was inevitable, or even merely predictable. Opponents warned it would be a disaster, supporters assured everyone it wouldn't be.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/16/news/companies/1800-flowers-valentines-day/index.html?hpt=hp_t5
Then there's this:
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/a-quick-note-on-anna-eshoos-comparison-between-amazon-and-the-obamacare-website
“There are thousands of websites that handle concurrent volumes far larger than what HealthCare.gov was faced with. Amazon and eBay don’t crash the week before Christmas, and ProFlowers doesn’t crash on Valentine’s Day.†For one, they do. Amazon and eBay outages happen kind of a lot, even at non-peak times. But there's also this: neither site began operations as massively popular, legally-mandated outlets; they didn't start cold in the midst of a hype storm right before the holiday season.
So, the private sector doesn't do what the country believes it does. It really is just an entity made up of fallible people who may or may not properly anticipate every potential problem, just like the Government.
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