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07th Apr 2016

PIC: Some of the biggest flops in the history of advertising

Tony Cuddihy

Pepsi AM, anyone? How about Smokeless ‘Premier’ Cigarettes? Finally, ever watched anything on a Sony Betamax?

This is a fascinating infographic from Wholesale Clearance UK, who go down through the decades to bring you a list of the products that big companies got very, VERY badly wrong.

We don’t remember the glory of the McDonald’s Arch Deluxe burger, with people preferring their Quarter Pounders with Cheese and Big Macs, but we reckon it would have gone down nicely with Heinz EZ Squirt Ketchup.

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