The Problem with Victoria's Secret
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Victoria Secret was basically founded because men felt awkward. This is that story, and how its kinda gone a bit adrift, but looks like it'll probably be okay. Maybe. Who knows. Watch the video.
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victoria secret lingerie is honestly actually shit quality.
The bra's fall apart after only like 10 wearings or so. Walmart stuff lasts 2000% longer and thats just sad
well to be fair its cause they spend all ht emoney on hookers er models see epstein for more or wiat hes ...not dead
Yeah, it bothers me so much, Savage X Fenty is really killing it though.
Their sizing is also the puts.
i need to start a study to test how a lady says a bra is more um er sturdy ....lol
@@chronosschiron 2 measures: how long is it comfortable and at peak support, and once it's off peak how long before it hurts to wear.
I can tell you when I stopped going to Victoria's Secret. I used to faithfully buy their "t-shirt bra," that looked smooth under a t-shirt and was also very comfortable. Well, they "redesigned" a product I already liked, which pissed me off. And for what they cost, the bras did not last very long. So, good-bye.
They stopped sewing their bras and started GLUEING them. No joke. I compared a body bra from 5 years ago with an "identical" one from a year ago- the old one is sewn and the new one is glued along the edges. Ridiculous.
This channel is 100% Simon's chaotic outlet
I know and I love it. They just set him loose and went with it.
That's why I'm here lolz
Inside Simon's chaotic mind. Oooooh, what a blast.
Chaotic neutral 😅
Watch the most recent videos on this channel! haha
I can't shop at VS anymore because it does feel more like it's geared towards girls in high school more than an actual woman. The quality and styles suck too
Its cause thats their target... They funded epstein including paying for his apartment.. The founders have had sex crime charges also... Thier target is underaged/teenage girls.
VS’s main problem for me is that their quality is too low for their prices.
Cate it’s gotten so so low. The last bra I bought was no better than target yet somehow almost 3X the price. No more.
I only buy their perfumes and one style of sportsbra but only the sportbra cause I get a shit ton of wear from it and only RARELY do I buy from there
Harley Quinn I love their male cologne :)
@@krissydiggs I can tell you with 100% proof that VS bras are the same as others but cost more. My Mother-in-law used to work at a factory named Marion Rohr aka The Panty Shanty and she said there would be times when the underwear she was sewing was supposed to go to a store named JCPennys but VS wanted them so she had to take out the Pennys tag and put in the VS tag. So brand names aren't always the best quality. This was 20 years ago and the factory has long been closed so no idea who makes them now.
Cate VS is on the level of LuLaRoe with their price gouging shit products.
Damn, Simon seems so much happier here being more casual. Its like an in between "fact fiend" and "today I found out" levels of professionalism lol which is great
god I love me some fact fiend though
Do something about Yahoo, how they could've bought google for $1 mil, could've been bought themselves for $40 bil, ended up being sold for $4.6 bil
“The economy is booming, we’re recording this in 2019”
Oh dear... oh dear, oh dear....
DeathbyPixels ha ha ha ha...I mean we have to laugh or we will go insane right? I will go insane if I don’t laugh. That’s why I appreciate this show so much, it’s therapeutic!
I know this comment is a month old and it'll feel dated by the time next year, but right now I think it's pretty effing funny!
2020 says "hello"
Go bye bye 4 trillion dollars of US GDP.
@@EMurph42 well, apparently we're the vast minority. To be oddly contradictory, yet perfectly apt simultaneously. Cause people have definitely gone absolutely guano,
en masse...
My attempt at a simonesque dramatic pause at the end there.
Actually, it was the remnants of a grammatical change, altering the spacing structure. But voila...
lemonade.
Another channel featuring Simon Whistler? When does this man sleep?
No need for sleep. I'm a robot sent from the future.
LMAO
@@brainblaze6526 read this and heard "Few-Cha"
Radical Rainbow It would be worth it to be sure, but I always got the impression these enterprises had a pretty small budget so there wasn't a huge amount of money to go around. Especially when you consider the staff they'd have to pay for writing and research.
I was going to ask the same question!
“The economy is booming, it’s 2019”
Me in March 2020: “Those were the days...”
And they were good days. 😭😭
... my friend,
I thought they'd never end...
It's the new great depression welcome to history
Hey Simon, would love to see you dive in to the mess that is multi-level marketing culture!
Me too
Me too, but those guys are super litigious :(
Oooo I agree, this would have a lot of good stuff to go through. Itd also be a good video to share to our dumb family and friends who get suckered into MLMs
@@brainblaze6526 maybe be super vague, and change names, explaining why you're changing the names. Perhaps providing links in the description? Itd be nice to have a nice logical video to send to our dumber friends and family who get fooled by these schemes.
But I also dont want you guys getting in hot water either. I'm a very curious person and love bits of info like this and what you provide on your other channels. Especially anything to do with history. I especially thank you for the Tolkien video, he and Lewis are my favorite authors.
Please do this!
Victoria ain’t got any more secrets
Should have called it "Victoria's Secret Exposed". GOODBYE MONETISATION.
.... that YOU know about.
Frankly I feel like I've been keeping a pretty good lid on where the bodies and the gold is hidden...
The secret is her clothes look bad on fat chics
@@Victoria-dh9vb lol, nice.
I have a business blaze idea.
"How did Toys r' us get cocked up?"
Venture Capitalists bought it and gutted the profits out of the company and left them saddled with millions in debt.
@@azmax623 I knew all that, but it would be more fun for simon to dig through it.
One word........Amazon
"And now for a bonus fact"
Toys r us still exists in south africa due to being owned by another entity
Business blaze would do a good video but if u want to know now check out company man he does a good video on toys r us he is kinda boring compared to simon in bb but here's the link th-cam.com/video/A8OPvx1nhSM/w-d-xo.html
Simon Whistler walks into a Mango....
The start of a very bizarre joke.
And a pear walks out 🤣
HAHAHA!!!!
It’s the pits
I buy most of my lingerie from Agent Provocateur in London. But I am not sure why it's called "naughty" time stuff, I always viewed Victoria Secret as mass produced mediocre lingerie stores that were generally convenient but not ever really great quality.
I agree
Yep but sadly Victoria secret is pretty much the best my corner of Arkansas has to offer.
I find I'm uncomfortable in Agent Provocateur for reasons I can't put my finger on. I like Rigby & Peller though. I left the UK a few years ago but visit quite often. Can't say I've particularly appreciated lingerie here.
@@haileyeagle4151 Don't you have Macy's? I think John Lewis is our equivalent and they have some decent lingerie.
@@haileyeagle4151 I have to second what @RunningFromABear said. I've heard from my friends in America that Macy's is a good place to go for this sort of thing. I don't know what the prices are like compared to VS but I have heard generally good things.
My problem with Victoria’s Secret is that it’s way too expensive for me. $90 for leggings? $35 for a thong? Hard pass.
This is what really did them in! Why would someone pay double for a product with no exclusivity?
Well you need to find a dumb man to buy it for you. Yeah dumb men like me lol
it the tone of Butthead, "You said hard." hahahah
They don’t even have particularly nice stuff. I don’t know, perhaps it’s nicer in America? Also they don’t have a wide range of sizes.
@@--enyo-- I don't know in our office we always celebrate their newsletter :D
The Celestial Seasonings tea company has a really interesting background, complete with controversy! That could be a fun video!
I second this. Take the tour, go into the menthol room to cure your cold. And anyways I love their teas. I wrote to them once and they wrote me a very nice letter back.
@@flowertrue I love the mint room so much! The tour is highly recommended :D
Ooooooh yes please
Sounds like that would be juicy!
UP VOTE!!! Live in Colorado & know stories. One lady was sell weed out the back door in the ‘90’s when that sort of thing was frowned upon. She would store it in the peppermint room so no one could smell it. Peppermint needed it’s own room or it overpowered the whole wear household. The end
Watching this in mid 2020 when Victoria secret just announced they were closing nearly 300 stores...
Surprisingly women want underwear that their nails don't rip through when they pull them onto their hips or that only cover a single labia.
🙌🙌🙌
victoria secret isn't underwear LOL. It's lingerie.
I recently purged my huge collection of Victoria’s Secret undies because the quality is not what it used to be. I had holes in all the lacy waistbands! And I don’t even have long nails.
Target’s revamped underwear are my new favorite. And I haven’t bought a VS bra in years. Once they got rid of the bathing suits, I really stopped thinking of them as my go-to.
Not that many people will care, but since "labia" is Latin, and is the plural form, the word for "a single labia" would be a "labium."
@Barbara Mulvaney No no no! Google underwear and after that lingerie. There not the same.
2019: "The economy is booming..."
2020: Well that didn't age well...
Why does this whole thing feel like a drunk-Simon outtake read?
This is Simon in his real form, chaotic neutral lmao
Welcome to another episode of Business Blaze!
Victoria Secret needs breastfeeding bras. A lot of moms stopped shopping there when they say that feeding babies isn't sexy. Have a baby nursing on the catwalk. Now thats edgy.
Victoria Secret Edgelord Collection
That’s like Shell Oil having an exposition on the wonders of fracking at an international ecology summit, or Mossberg demoing their latest shotgun model at local high schools.
𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕡𝕪 Hey you work as an add exec in your day job?
p.s. Subbed, will check out your videos ltr.
I don't think being associated with Jeffrey Epstein helped either.
3:40 "Still, Roy was probably pretty happy with his one million dollars"
Oh Simon, you sweet innocent man
(He killed himself a few years later when he realized what he missed out on)
I work part time at a Hanes/Maidenform/Bali/Platex/Champion store, and we get so many ladies who come in and say the Victoria's Secret workers measured them wrong and didn't listen to their needs, so I'm sure that wasn't helping the brand either. We get them the right measurement and the right bra for their needs and steal Victoria's Secret's old customers.
Aerie is like “oh I’m sorry! Were those YOUR customers??? Whoopsie!”
Apparel = Pronounced like "A barrel" but with a P instead of a B :)
Shit I'm late
@@thejoker-wu1sp that"s what she said
@@zoesmybaby Michael Scott! Here you are!! 🤣🤣🤣
I do like the fact that you added the author (and presenter, of course) right at the beginning. This is a unique touch that I haven't seen before on videos like this, on TH-cam. I like it!
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I'd say do one on Sega. They might have been the 2nd console system to have online gaming, but they where the first to have multiplayer online, which was supported for close to 18 years after it started, with people still playing Phantasy Star Online unto the last day. Not bad for a "failed" console!
Clothing size “standardization” or the lack thereof.
Yeah, buy you can't pin that on one retailer. It's not like there is a standard size scale and VS just refuses to go by it. It's not standardized enough to know for certain that Target clothes will fit the same as Walmart clothes. In my opinion, VS is better in that regard than a lot of other retailers. Plus size women's stores usually develop their own size scales that are completely standalone, just to mess with women's psychology about body image.
-- Oh I agree. It’s across the industry (hence my “lack thereof” portion of the statement), and also more expensive brands will also have their own skewed system so more well off women will feel better because they’re in a “smaller size” than someone with a lower economic background.
Yet for guys a 38” inch waist and 31” inseam with a 16.5” neck (numbers random) is consistent across brands.
@@MildredCady, it's not quite that consistent for us, but at least the numbers mean something. A 40" waist might have different fits from brand to brand, but it's still (roughly) a 40" waist. It makes sense. Women's sizing doesn't make ANY sense. Honest question: what does size 0 actually mean?
-- Basically as vanity sizing skewed the industry more and more, there was a need to “add” more numbers at the bottom end so 0 and 00 (yes that exists) developed.
As a rough estimate, a 2011 size 0 is equivalent to a 2001 size 2, and is larger than a 1970 size 6 or 1958 size 8.
-- Currrent size 0 clothing (depending on brand and other factors), fits measurements of chest-stomach-hips from 30-22-32 inches (76-56-81 cm) to 36-28-36 inches (90-71½-90 cm). 00 is around 1/2-2” (1-5cm) smaller.
We need a video on patent medicine from the 19th Century and earlier, specifically their ludicrous claims and ingredients. There was one which had cow dung and urine as ingredients.
Nimesh Chokshi Yes!!!
Love this idea, will do some research. Thanks for the suggestion :)
Business Blaze 😁
Have you ever stopped to think what we have today that will be seen as ludicrous in another century or two? A lot of conceited modern people like to think we have the answers to a lot of things now, and any challenge is seen as not accepting science. But the reality is, understanding of science changes. I the 19th century, what they had was based on the science that they understood. In another century, we're going to look so ass-backward with people asking how the fuck we really mandated those injections or claimed that that plant is deadly or shot poison into bodies for cancer. The "best" we have today is only today. Advances will absolutely render what we have right now useless at some point.
Think about that before looking back and thinking people were dumb for using cow dung. After all, we use mold and still use maggots.
"... smells like piss, piss with ink"
Cover the interesting story of Addis and Puma, two brothers that hate each other and both make great shoes.
Adolf Dassler (Adidas) and Rudolf Dassler (Puma) died in th 1970's. Both companies are now owned by the French conglomerate PPR.
The real problem with Victoria Secret is they refuse to carry bras for the large breasted woman. Which is ridiculous.
I know I got sized there and they said I was a 36DDD. I laughed at them and said I was actually a 32G (aka D5). They don't carry that.
They also don’t carry any extended sizes. If they did, they would have a lot more business
Victoria's Secret is anything but new, as there was Fredricks Of Hollywood first.
"Free, home-delivered catalogs of women in their underwear, God bless America!"
- Jeff Foxworthy.
I feel awkward just walking through the Walmart women’s section
Preach.
@@brainblaze6526 I stock Goods at a Walmart imagine how I feel placing them on the rack with customers walking by
I assume you get some sort of uniform though, right?! That's like a magical cloak that makes it okay.
Why tho? Ive never f3lt embaressed walking through mens section. Is ut because men is presumed horny all the time or is it because its concidered embarissing by some, for men to like and dress in female stuff
I don't feel awkward at all. If I'm in the women section looking at lingerie or clothes of any kind I'm there because my wife sent me for something or it's a birthday, or some sort of gift. I think it's because I don't care what people think about me, or of me. It really is a liberating experience to not care
The world must be ready for Whistlers Secret
Walmart, the difference between how Sam Walton ran the conglomerate versus the way his greedy children do. And how Walmart treats and pays their employees. Spoiler, I'm a Walmart employee
@Jody Owen because nobody's going to hire the old person with health issues.
I remember when Sam Walton was still alive WalMart was known for its US produced products. They advertised and traded on it, prominently displaying the "Made in the USA" label and having commercials specifically telling people they should shop at walmart to support workers in the US. They also claimed to stock quality products. These days they are known for having nothing but cheap Chinese junk that easily breaks and you only buy because you're too poor to afford anything better. Sad, really.
Jody Owen When walmart employees unionize Walmart simply closes the store. They employ illegal tactics to suppress unions, such as forcing employees to be trained in anti-union propaganda which they are forced to watch, and encouraging employees to spy and report on any suspected union activity so they can be fired.
If existing laws were enforced, these things might be curtailed. But given they blatantly get away with open sex discrimination, racism, and failure to pay employees for overtime among other things, I wouldn't hold my breath on that. As things are as well, almost no corporation is ever expected to respect union rights, and the actions of politicians are generally completely antagonistic to unions and any form of rights for workers - especially in the US.
@Jody Owen I understand your question, and even the solution, but, the reasons behind why people work there is mixed. Minimum wage, until recently, has been pretty low, with the cost of living going up. Walmart entices people to work there by having higher than minimum pay rates, trying to be more attractive.
Honestly, the retail aspect I'm not bothered by, but, the level of stupidity from virtually everyone from the CEO to the store managers is ridiculous. I currently work in Walmart myself, but, it's been draining, and unfortunately I'm in a spot that I can't go below what they're paying without severe money issues. And I'm currently at $11/hour (out in SC btw). And I don't even have that much in the way of bills either really, it's primarily my rent, and I'm in the lowest I can get before going into crappy neighborhoods.
I believe someone mentioned that workers attempting to unionize does cause the store to become shut down. And that's 100% accurate, because one of my managers brought up how a couple stores in the region were shut down due to those reasons, but, officially, that wasn't what was reported. They said it was due to plumbing/sewer problems with one store, and remodeling for another.
I personally, try to go for non-walmart brand goods when shopping there, and typically try to shop elsewhere, especially for food.
As for the appropriate solutions, I've analyzed the entire system (or at least as much as I could from my position as a truck unloader), there's a ton of things that need to be done, not the least of which is to actually treat the workers with respect as a human being.
You're not wrong about boycotting them, but, unfortunately it won't be as effective with a small percentage of people doing it. That being said, they've been trying to figure out why they're losing money and where, and haven't realized that fewer people are shopping there over time. One store near me used to have a completely full lot, but, now they're getting closer to about 50-60% of the lot filled with cars. And that full lot was only like, 5-10 years back.
A lot of us actually don't expect Walmart to make it past another 20 years without problems with everything going on.
However, some of the problems Walmart has, isn't just with them. They've got a poor scheduling system, among other things, that's being mimicked by other companies as well. And that's where regulations can actually help. Though, I'm not overly fond of regulations myself, there does need to be a minimal amount that keeps everything together without interrupting the economy.
@@rifter0x0000 yeah we employees call it "plumbing problems" when stores are closed
Video suggestion... The plastic industry. My Dad started an injection molding business just at the right time and the 90's we're good! ... Now with the "ban on plastics" we see many small molding shops going out of business. How about a video on how much $ the plastic industry does for the good and that if people would properly dispose and recycle their plastic, shops like my dad's could stay open and continue to employee people and benefit communities.
When they stopped using catalogue orders it was over
They have online shopping now, which is just a different big catalog.
It seems like every few months I find entire areas of youtube alone that have millions upon millions of people watching their videos and entire cultural ideas that I had no idea about that somehow have complete economies and subcultures of millions of dollars and millions of people...so I wouldn't be surprised if there is a boom in womens underwear companies that I've never even heard of, being a guy.
I miss the catalog and the clothes. They had great sweaters.
I've been watching so many English royalty dramas I thought this was about Queen Victoria.
10:34 : "The economy is booming, we're making this video in 2019"
2020: RKO outta nowhere!!!
Idea. How does “one” bankrupt a casino
Overspend on frivolous nonsense, raise prices on things that are normally heavily discounted or even given away, turning down the volume on the slot machines, charging for parking and adding ridiculous mandatory resort fees along with other nickel and diming are just the obvious ones. There has been little to no serious development in utilising LEDs and other cool tech to light up entire buildings to entice visitors.
Casinos aren't particularly unique or uncommon these days. Once you have been through a half a dozen or so, there is a pretty good chance you might forget which one you are in, even without being intoxicated. Steve Wynn was one of the last true geniuses and creative force in the industry. The rest are mostly just cookie cutter copycats. It doesn't help that 2 companies control about 2/3 of the Las Vegas strip, but fortunately, this is down from over 4/5 a year or so ago.
I guess the best answer is yuppies with their corporate cost cutting and profit maximisation happened over the course of their "professional" careers, but the turnover is starting to show. Casinos are moving into a new fresh decade and era.
A video on the rise and fall of Blackberry
I've actually defended the lack of size inclusivity in their runway shows. They don't make particularly large sizes, and they don't do a ton of products in the largest sizes in their range. If they included a broader range of women in their runway show it would look like they cater to everybody, when in reality they don't. They'd basically be advertising a product they don't make. That makes no sense.
People have complained that they need to make more sizes, but even that's debatable. Making a wide variety of sizes is super expensive, particularly in bras. For every band size you add, you need to add multiple cup sizes. Essentially, for every size they add they're really adding at least four sizes (if not more) when you factor in different size cups. Assuming they carry this new size in ten different styles, that's forty new products. That's enormously expensive. That's a large part of why specialty bra sizes are so expensive. It's an extremely specialized product.
I'm guessing that they've done their demographic research, and they're carrying the right range of sizes for their target customer. The problem here is that no one ever says that they've done their demographic research, and adding more sizes wouldn't be profitable for their brand. They always make the same mess that Abercrombie made and say stupid shit like, "We only want thin people wearing our clothes," or "Our brand is about fantasy." It doesn't make sense for every brand to carry every size. They need to consider who their target customer is, and focus on what they want. That's perfectly okay. However, brands need to learn a little bit of tact though and not dump on people who they don't particularly want to cater to. (Worse case scenario, why not just say, "It's something we're looking into" when asked a question about why you don't carry a certain product, or cater to a specific demographic?)
Can you do one on what happened to Woolworths please, I always thought they'd be around forever, though that could have been because they were the only store that did lower cost kids clothes over here when my kids were growing up
Dad told me back when he was doing o-level geography that he was taught that in the UK, to count as a city you need a cathedral, to count as a town you needed a Woolworths
In Canada before another w walked in our Woolworths was five and dime then mid priced with woolco being the discount
I had a dilemma once: Shopping with my girlfriend's teenage daughter. She wanted to shop VS for workout gear. I stayed outside in the mall. Don't want to try to explain why a middle aged man is shopping with a teen in a lingerie shop. :D
It's funny to hear that VS stores were supposed to welcome men. Whereas it is true that their advertising appeals to men, it seems to me much more awkward for men to enter a shop which only sells women's underwear than to take a quick detour into the women's section of a store which has products normally used by men. I always thought of it as a holy shrine for women to shop for such things in peace while the catalog and website allows men to pay for the garments they hope women will wear.
I stopped buying items or sending my lady friends towards VS when everything became bland and the store was 70% occupied by their Pink line, which felt like items you could get at department stores for half the price.
I'm just astonished that someone in the era of free Internet porn tried to argue with a straight face that trans women aren't part of straight male fantasies. *Everything* is *someone's* fantasy.
Speaking both of Internet porn and as a bi woman, yeah, the catalog used to be a great treat that would show up in the mail from time to time, but now it (and really their whole Sexy Sexy Sexy brand strategy) has been made redundant by the Internet twice over.
Hey Simon, I would love to hear about the history of Monsanto company.
Hell yes!!
I fear that won't happen though due to the potential of Simon being sued.
I believe it was Monsanto that was sued for dumping PCB's in Anniston, Alabama and the surrounding areas. I live near there and know many folks that were sicken by the PCB's and collected money from the settlement Monsanto had made with the city.
There are still PCBs here, too.
You should do a video on the fall of Sega. How it all started with the playstation 2.
No? That was around ten years after they started stomping on their own collective tallywhacker with golf shoes.
So the playstation 2 was the nail in the coffin?
Sega CD and sewershark was something they never came back from and the start of the end.
@@Netasuke I'd say for a time yeah. I feel Sega is doing pretty good today. But really the 32x and the Saturn were some of the big missteps the company had. The Dreamcast was good it just couldn't compete with the PS2.
@@brandchan yeah I loved my dreamcast, still have it
Hey Simon you have to do a video about the Rise and Fall of "Jared" and Subway.
I quit eating there after the additive debacle. Why does bread supposedly baked fresh daily and immediately consumed need preservatives? The answer is that the bread, like everything else, is not fresh. Nothing is fresh despite the slogan and stores lack the ability to produce any of it fresh. The "grilled chicken" is made in a factory and contains very little actual chicken, plus it's not grilled.
Jared was outed first as a liar after years of Subway advertising as a proper diet food. Then it turned out that not only was he a pedophile, the company knew it and continued to support him. They even went so far as to tell a franchisee who complained he was sexually harassed her 14 year old daughter she must continue working with him and giving him access. Her only recourse was to close her business, because they were forcing her to allow him around. They've never apologized for this or even acknowledged his crimes. It took federal prosecution to end his reign.
I would have gone ahead and eaten their fake food, especially when I was poor and it was cheap (2 for one deals, $5 footlongs, etc.) but this behavior is beyond the pale. If any sub/sandwich shop is available in your area it will have better more natural food and generally decent prices without the apparent support for pedophilia and sexual harassment.
@@rifter0x0000 that fact that subway hid his behavior and continued to support him until his termination the same day he was sentenced is why we need this video.
100% this ^
Is subway falling ?
@@piercedsiren
It needs to....as long as they stay affiliated with Jared anyway.
this channel is fantastic
You’re fantastic. Thank you.
How about when A&W offered a 1/3 pound burger to oppose other fast food restaurants
TH-cam needs to change his logo just to the face of Simon, like come on!!! He is in like 10000000000 channels lol
2:25 que clips of father Ted trapped in the lingerie section 😁
I was racking up hundreds of dollars ever few months on Victoria Secret Clothes until all the sudden they stopped selling them 🤯 I haven't bought more than two bra once a year since.. they toasted themselves.
I worked in the call center for the credit card company that managed Victoria's Secret store credit card (which is called the Angel Card.) While we managed many brands, the brand-specific training for Victoria's Secret was...interesting.
For instance, we were very specifically told that we would frequently get wives trying to learn about charges on their husband's cards. That is a no-no for any credit card, but it is particularly troublesome for Victoria's Secret where men are often buying lingerie that their wives never see. We weren't even supposed to answer questions about statements when the wives had them in hand and were reading them to us.
As you might imagine, that's the only customer service job I ever worked that trained me in how to deal with upset spouses and marital disputes.
Essentially, all of the brand specific training assumed that the only people who would get an Angel Card were men who were buying gifts for women who were not their wives...and I can't say I ever had many experiences with Angel Card customers that suggested otherwise...
I'd like to learn how common/the craziest Disney lawsuits against small companies or individuals.
Props for Stańczyk as illustration for "Jester" 😂
Seems to me the point of a place like Victoria's Secret is solely for sexy lingerie that's intended to wear before or during.... well, sex. It's not meant to be comfortable or practical and worn every day. If you want that, there are tons of other options from department stores or smaller shops.
Yeah, yeah, yeah... I know some moron will claim this is "mansplaining," but Victoria's Secret is a store dedicated to specific merchandise. It'd be like going into a Levi's store and demanding they carry dress slacks, suits, or swimwear.
Newspaper headlines:
Whistler knows what Victoria's "Secret" is!!
Another great channel that does similar business-related content is “Company Man”. Very different format, but very business-talk driven!
Yes. Very good stuff there :).
Lingerie is sexy for about 90 seconds and then it's just in the way.
See, it's comments like this make women not even bother.
Two bits to add to round out this video. Les Wexner owned The Limited chain of stores when they bought Victoria Secret and was just adding intimate apparel to the rest of his apparel empire. It has never been the dominant brand in his portfolio. The original owner who took $1 million for the chain of 6 stores committed suicide years afterward, reportedly because he lost the million on his next venture, but kept going into debt. Since everyone knew he was the Victoria Secret guy, as The Limited expanded the chain, everyone figured he was getting rich, while he was broke. The embarrassment of having sold out for only $1 million, losing that money, and watching the company become worth $7 billion, while failing at his next attempts at retail, was too much.
I’m sad I didn’t find this until this year, god bless you and Jax for bringing a bright light to the weirdness of this company.
How about a video on how Palm Inc when from pretty much top of the market to non-existent in a relatively short time.
The problem with Victoria's secret is that, everybody knows it. It's not a secret anymore
Mitchell Horn I’m reasonably certain their secret was never an _actual_ secret to begin with.
Honestly, that's a fair point. The secret was supposed to be what was underneath the skivvies. It was a double entendre in that the founder was a man. But, nevertheless, the "secret" was supposed to be illicit and alluring. Now, in the age of internet porn, it just isn't.
Victoria’s Secret USED to be luxury. They sold beautiful real silk chemises, gowns, and panties.
Now it’s overly-branded polyester.
VS is not “luxury” anymore, and it hasn’t had a revolutionary product or campaign in decades.
After business school and two decades in finance what is clearly the problem with VS is diluting the market with a shitty products. All that to say is you don't need a background in business nor a formal education to know that VS bras are poorly made and ill fitting. No amount of marketing can fix that.
They seriously do not make anything that would fit a girl with actual boobs.
But they have a good time making your A cup look like C.
Adore Me (100% internet based) is killing it.
I KNOW RIGHT?!?!?!
Ugh, so much busty angst.
Victoria soooo......whats YOUR secret?
@@rooseveltbrentwood9654 I like to feast upon the still beating hearts of men violently ripped from their chest.
Victoria hot!
back when I worked at a Gateway tech support call center, there was a Victoria's Secret call center across the street. I knew a few people who worked there back in the '90s.
I'd be interested in hearing your perspectives on the rise and fall of Gateway.
That would be moo-ving
The problem with the body positivity movement is that it isn't really geared towards making people of average size feel like it's ok to be of average size. It's geared towards making it seem like there's nothing wrong with obese and extremly overweight people. The problem is that this is demonstrably wrong. The chance of heart disease, liver disorders, etc, etc are all made much, much more likely from being excessively overweight. While I fully support the idea of not ostrasizing overweight people (I'd be screwed if we did), it should not be lauded or incouraged. Not to mention it's kinda very sexist. Sure someone like Tess might get lauded as being 'brave and beautiful', but I guarentee if I was parading myself around, like she does, in nothing but swim trunks the guys, and gals, would be telling me to cover up cause no one wants to see my rolls and man boobs on display like that.
So, conversely, clothing stores that serve only larger women are a problem too? Should someone small like me demand a stores like Lane Bryant or Torrid sell my size? My point is, there are other places that sell larger sized lingerie, so larger women don’t HAVE to shop at VS, it’s not the only game in town. This is ridiculous.
Who remembers when amazon was a competitor w eBay? Could you do a video on the crazy fast rise of that company.
Got a heart hopefully that means a bus is coming soon 🤷🏾♂️
I used to get all my bras there and they were great. Now... it is true, the quality is down.
So. Don't know if this would work for this channel, but I have a suggestion.
Back in the day my home town, which is now literally the middle of no where, was actually a huge booming place when people started colonizing Canada. Little place called Wiarton, and it was bigger than Toronto for a while there. For the time it was huge, but over time it suffered a number of losses that eventually resulted in it becoming the backwater it is today. The real nail in the coffin was sugar beets. A venture that, given a couple more years, could have made the area strike it rich.
At the time there were issues with getting cane sugar, some war or another going on resulting in trade embargoes. So the demand for sugar was really high.
At the time it was unusual for sugar to be made from beets rather than cane, but one man came along and sold most of the local farmers on the idea to give it a go. The locals invested a lot of their own money and crops into sugar beets. Unfortunately, the project didn't have the leadership necessary, and the first couple years were a complete failure, and the factory folded. Between that and how unfamiliar people were with the product, despite tasting the same as cane sugar, many people lost everything. They had all planted sugar beets that year expecting to be able to sell them to the factory now found they had a product worth almost nothing, and had barely enough set aside to feed themselves over the winter, much less pay off the loans many of them had put against their land to invest into the sugar beet factory in the fist place.
The man who spearheaded the project rowed out into the middle of the lake and was never seen again.
Less than a decade later, sugar from sugar beets took off. What crippled our town economically was making business boom elsewhere in the world.
And now the town is most infamous for its extremely racist MP, who only this last year retired, and it's albino groundhog. There's a hand full of places that celebrate groundhog day, and we're one of them.
The problem with any initially successful business is they often get too big for their egos.
Instead of investing in the business and the products they produce they start chasing profits at the cost of the quality of the product and customer relations , They start taking huge salaries reduce quality and staff wages by any means then tell the customers to drop dead if they complain about the expensive drap they just bought failing on them.
Alright, today’s my birthday and another business blaze video. Awesome!
Happy birthday
Happy birthday🎉
Michael Louton Happy birthday
Happy belated birthday dude.
Victoria's Secretions!
-Why do some malls stay alive when others are in hospice or completely dead?
-History of the pool noodle.
-Midwest towns that were damaged or destroyed because of closing/closed factories (seriously, huge subject...)
-in the 1880’s many people bought stuff through catalogs (Sears, etc...seriously you could buy an entire house and assemble it). The American down town got rid of the need for that. Malls killed downtowns in the 70’s and 80’s, Superstores killed Malls in the 90’s-2000’s. Internet is killing superstores in 2010’s. We have gone full circle back to ordering things like in the 19th century as the norm...what will be the next thing? Will there be a new animal or will the internet come up with a new concept to replace how people buy things on line today?
The Victoria's Secret catalog was free soft core that came in the mail without even asking for it.
Just ask Al Bundy.
Teenage boys were eager to check the mail while everybody else was still asleep.
I did "fashion" photography for about a year, not to hustle clothing but for an artist (female) who just wanted to showcase the female form in a sexy, but non pornographic way. There was some lingerie, but I don't remember seeing "Victoria's Secret" on any labels. (Yes, I would have noticed.)
In Elizabethtown, Ky there was a man named Victor who opened a lingerie shop called, "Victor's Little Secret." He got sued over the name.
A-pair-rel. or a-pear-rel.
3:00 Imagine again. It was a time when literature was forbidden to portray women as enjoying the height of passion and every professional woman was trained to fake it.
For fun, discuss the Fuggers.
Problem with Victoria's Secret is I need those wings and they ain't selling 😔
Edit: I only go to Victoria's Secret for panties and not much else. There are much better places to get awesome lingerie that's higher quality and less general in taste.
I would love to see a video about youtubers that made terrible business choices that lead to their fall from grace. Love this format btw, its fun to watch Simon laughing and having fun doing what he does best!
I'm surprised there wasnt a Halloween related video
I have a suggestion for a video. Simon should do a video about his various channels.
Haha, what do you want to know? I dont just want to make some video just shilling my other stuff ;)
How you started in youtube, what your first channel was, all the people that help you make video's, what other channels your invalved in.
one thing you forgot, V.S. used to have awesome service, the one at my mall was very welcoming. They were really good at making the guy not feel strange or like he's shopping for himself or a creep or whatever. You felt more like a normal everyday citizen looking for a night-night for his gurl.
And one of the things that didnt help things was the shift girls had about how model bodies are not real, and photo fixing uping, eating disorders somehow got linked into the whole mess. To be honest it was actually harder for them to feel sexy back then, the bar was set pretty high, unrealistically high.
I never shopped at Victoria Secret, even during it's hay day. There's something to be said for having attractive underwear for yourself. It makes you feel pretty and confident. But that also means it's going to be your everyday stuff. It's got to be comfortable, durable, and have a solid cost to wear ratio, and it needs to hide under most clothing, before it ever thinks about being eye-catching. Victoria Secret was always too expensive and too poorly made, and on top of that, it didn't have a wide enough range of sizes. If I want to knock ny boyfriend's eyes out, I'm going to buy sexy costume underwear for cheap and do a quick change in the bathroom.
My man Simon! All I watch on TH-cam are videos with him on it.
Welcome to the cult of Simon Whistler my friend
Do a video on MoviePass!
Too soon!
My favorite things at VS were always the clothing and the pajamas. They had some really cute sweaters, jeans, and boots. I think their brand was called, MODA International? Then they started cheaping out on the quality, and that was the end. :-(
I think MODA was actually another brand that they just carried. Not sure. I did buy two of their super fuzzy sweaters. I loved them, but always got to warm when I wore them.
The Roy dude, original founder, killed himself Aug 23, 1993. By jumping off the golden gate Bridge
Broadcast.com is what made Mark Cuban rich!! He started it and yahoo bought it for $5.7 billion
Considering that Victoria's Secret's number one most well known model is Adrianna Lima who is from Brazil. I don't see how anyone can claim that they sell only to skinny white women.
The Victorians were up to all kinds of naughtiness!! 😂😂
I'll be really curious to see whatever happen to K-mart, i mean obliviously Wal-mart ruined them but why couldn't K-mart keep up?
@Barbara Mulvaney
Conservatives like to complain about social programs for the needy but they mostly ignore corporate welfare!