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Failure: The Blog 
April 2018
- Cruise Control Came Out of Frustration
- Time Spent Gaming Pays Off In The Navy
- Rock Around The Clock Was a Commercial Failure
- Sigmund Freud Should Have Been Discouraged
March 2018
- Superman Couldn't Fly
- This School Shares Failures
- Jim Croce's Parents Hoped He Would Fail
- McDonald's Turns A Cheater Into A Winner
- Snake Eyes Was Made To Save Money
February 2018
- A Stolen Album Created Success
- The 1679 Habeas Corpus Act Passed Due To A Joke
- Changing The Print On A Box Saved Money
- George Washington Survived His Miserable Mother
- How Warehouse Stores Began
January 2018
- Reddit User Found Success Through Failure
- Remembering Famous Failures
- Mistake Or Genius Marketing?
- Waste From Our Eyes Lets Us See
- The Slinky Was Accidentally Created
December 2017
- Proceeding After A Failure
- An Elementary School Embraces Failure
- When Businesses Apologize
- How The Olympics Nearly Destroyed Montreal
- Benji Was A Shelter Dog!
November 2017
Swanson’s Leftover Turkey Issue Brought Success
Usually, companies dread having a bunch of left over product that they can’t seem to sell. That’s just wasted money, right? Swanson figured out how to get around that issue.
Many people shop the frozen food sections, looking for frozen dinners to purchase at their local grocery stores. Have you ever wondered where that idea came from? Lifestyle looked into it with their article on the History of TV Dinners. Back in 1953, the minds at Swanson were picking the brains of their workers for ideas on what the could possibly do with all the left over turkeys that don’t sell at Thanksgiving.
Photo © Flickr User 1950sUnlimited
One man had an idea that surprised everyone, why not just package it in individual trays? Thus, the frozen dinner was born thanks to Gerry Thomas, thanks to recalling the way that airplanes hand out compartmentalized aluminum trays. Their possible failure turned into a great success!
