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Big companies' biggest product failures of all time

Products the public rejected
Clairol Touch of Yogurt Shampoo
Sony’s Betamax Player
Colgate beef lasagne
Coke II (New Coke)
Campbell’s Souper-Combo
Bic Perfumes
Milton Bradley's Trump The Game
Cuecat barcode scanner
Apple’s Newton MessagePad
Coors Rocky Mountain Spring Water
Kraft’s Maxwell House Ready to Drink Brewed Coffee
Pepsi AM
Harley-Davidson ‘Hot Road’ cologne
Crystal Pepsi
Rejuvenique Electric Facial Mask
McPizza
Cosmopolitan Yoghurt
Fat Free Pringles
Heinz’s Green Ketchup
Frito-Lay Lemonade
Pepsi Blue
Vanilla Ice Cream Monster Munch
Nokia N-Gage
Oakley Thump MP3 Sunglasses
Coca-Cola's Dasani water
Cheetos Lip Balm
Microsoft Zune
Twitter Peek
Tesco’s Strawberries & Clotted Cream Sandwich
Burger King Satisfries
Neflix Qwikster
Google Glass
HTC First ‘Facebook Phone’
Amazon Fire Phone
BIC’s “for Her” pens
Samsung Galaxy Note7
Amazon Alexa
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Products the public rejected

Corporations are constantly coming up with new products, but what happens when the big companies get it badly wrong? From a seemingly popular voice assistant to the toothpaste company that launched its own lasagne, read on as we take a look at some of the biggest big-name product failures of all time.
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lovemoney staff

25 January 2023

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