Burning the Competition
By Elton Camp
Good business ideas sometime travel fast
A sure-fire way to increase sales at last
Dominoes Pizza showed us the best way
By how they handled Papa John today
In a Florida town the size of Lake City
Too many pizzerias sure seemed a pity
They decided of pizza they’d sell more
With one less restaurant than before
Though some called the idea so lame,
They sent the competitor up in flame
Other businesses saw what they’d done
Decided it was how customers are won
Lowe’s set the torch to Home Depot
So over there customers couldn’t go
Rite Aid figured that for bad Walgreen
It was time for some flames to be seen
McDonald’s to competing Burger King
Decided that some gasoline they’d fling
Then it was the manager at Wells Fargo
Who decided Regions Bank had to go
The owner of the Usury Payday Loan
Used the trick to get his competitor gone
They all decided there was no better way
To get ahead in the bad economy of today
ONE OF THE ABOVE IS TRUE. WHICH?
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