# Retail Fail.
**URL:** https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902
**Category:** Pub
**Created:** [April 13, 2010, 8:40am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902 "2010-04-13T08:40:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@alex4point0](https://fixed.org.au/u/alex4point0)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 8:40am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/1 "2010-04-13T08:40:37Z")
Spotted on Swanston St.
[ul]
[li]brake levers at rakish angle[/li][li]no msw on front wheel[/li][li]pads aligned to tyre[/li][/ul]
what else?
[RIGHT]edit: could have called this ‘list tag fail’[/RIGHT]
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### Author:  [@LAM](https://fixed.org.au/u/LAM)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 8:53am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/2 "2010-04-13T08:53:37Z")
i saw this on saturday and laughed too.
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### Author:  [@gink\_04](https://fixed.org.au/u/gink_04)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 9:39am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/3 "2010-04-13T09:39:44Z")
is that the shoe shop heatseeker works in?? :evil:
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### Author:  [@T0ne](https://fixed.org.au/u/T0ne)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/4 "2010-04-13T14:49:32Z")
spotted that the other day at QV
epic fail ^^
You can actually win it. Not sure how, it’s sponsored by Le Coq Sportif.
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### Author:  [@b.dub](https://fixed.org.au/u/b.dub)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/5 "2010-04-13T15:02:42Z")
haha yeah i think thats glue store. also in mcentral theres a bmw x5 comp that comes with a MTB on top and the bars were upside down…
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### Author:  [@lloydd](https://fixed.org.au/u/lloydd)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/6 "2010-04-13T23:11:55Z")
also had a bit of a chuckle at this the other day. surely to anyone those brakes look like they belong on a clown bike
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### Author:  [@heatseeker](https://fixed.org.au/u/heatseeker)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/7 "2010-04-14T18:43:50Z")
Ok,
This just turned up in our retail stores for a window display for Adidas. I refuse to put it up.
Celebrate Originality Adidas says. Sorry Adi Dassler, you’re about four years too late.
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### Author:  [@alex4point0](https://fixed.org.au/u/alex4point0)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/8 "2010-04-14T19:07:06Z")
It made me think of [Le Cuñt Sportif](http://fyxomatosis.com), in a nice way, and wonder about brand appropriation … Le Cog Sportif?
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### Author:  [@heatseeker](https://fixed.org.au/u/heatseeker)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/9 "2010-04-14T19:24:18Z")
Why does your link go to Fyxomatosis? You’ve lost me as usual.
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### Author:  [@The\_JAMS](https://fixed.org.au/u/The_JAMS)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/10 "2010-04-14T19:57:48Z")
you know, track cunt
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### Author:  [@alex4point0](https://fixed.org.au/u/alex4point0)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/11 "2010-04-14T20:40:21Z")
Didn’t Andy do a line of ‘le c\_ sportif’ shirts, back in the day?
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### Author:  [@heatseeker](https://fixed.org.au/u/heatseeker)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/12 "2010-04-14T21:11:15Z")
Not sure bro, you maybe right.
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### Author:  [@Ridethepony](https://fixed.org.au/u/Ridethepony)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/13 "2010-04-14T22:00:48Z")
> [@Heatseeker](#):
>
> Ok,
>
> This just turned up in our retail stores for a window display for Adidas. I refuse to put it up.
>
> Celebrate Originality Adidas says. Sorry Adi Dassler, you’re about four years too late.
>
> 
“Originality” is pretty subjective. Original to you is probably very different to originality for the masses from the burbs who buy their shoes from your store.
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### Author:  [@heatseeker](https://fixed.org.au/u/heatseeker)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/14 "2010-04-14T22:40:54Z")
> [@Ridethepony](#):
>
> > [@Heatseeker](#):
> >
> > Ok,
> >
> > This just turned up in our retail stores for a window display for Adidas. I refuse to put it up.
> >
> > Celebrate Originality Adidas says. Sorry Adi Dassler, you’re about four years too late.
> >
> > 
>
> “Originality” is pretty subjective. Original to you is probably very different to originality for the masses from the burbs who buy their shoes from your store.
You’ve got our target demographic all wrong.
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### Author:  [@jimbopome](https://fixed.org.au/u/jimbopome)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/15 "2010-04-18T23:10:58Z")
> [@a.4](#):
>
> Spotted on Swanston St.
>
> 
> [ul][li]brake levers at rakish angle[/li][li]no msw on front wheel[/li][li]pads aligned to tyre[/ul][/li]
> what else?
>
> [right]edit: could have called this ‘list tag fail’[/right]
oh my god, that’s terrible and dangerous. made me laugh though
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### Author:  [@alexander](https://fixed.org.au/u/alexander)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/16 "2010-04-21T20:19:40Z")
you should see the Le coq sportif bike at the Glue store in Highpoint Melb, just as dangerous and laughable.
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### Author:  [@dfunkt](https://fixed.org.au/u/dfunkt)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2010, 9:50pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/17 "2010-04-21T21:50:57Z")
> [@alexander](#):
>
> you should see the Le coq sportif bike at the Glue store in Highpoint Melb, just as dangerous and laughable.
did you check out the picture in the OP???
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### Author:  [@alexander](https://fixed.org.au/u/alexander)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/18 "2010-04-21T22:04:51Z")
> [@dfunkt](#):
>
> did you check out the picture in the OP???
>
> 
umm, yeah thats supposed to be swanston st? seeing pic link is fail, kinda hard to tell.
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### Author:  [@dfunkt](https://fixed.org.au/u/dfunkt)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2010, 10:41pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/19 "2010-04-21T22:41:45Z")
> [@alexander](#):
>
> umm, yeah thats supposed to be swanston st? seeing pic link is fail, kinda hard to tell.
whoops, i missed reading highpoint ☹
just for me: 
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### Author:  [@bumnut](https://fixed.org.au/u/bumnut)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/retail-fail/44902/20 "2010-04-22T04:58:35Z")
> [@heatseeker](#):
>
> Ok,
>
> This just turned up in our retail stores for a window display for Adidas. I refuse to put it up.
>
> Celebrate Originality Adidas says. Sorry Adi Dassler, you’re about four years too late.
>
> 
well we just made up 4 or 5 adidias “bike decal” kits at work… so expect to see some adidas bikes in shop windows soon!!!