{"id":5497,"date":"2007-05-14T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/walmart-carries-skype.html"},"modified":"2007-05-14T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T16:17:00","slug":"walmart-carries-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/walmart-carries-skype.html","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Carries Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Have you seen the latest Dairy Queen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dairyqueen.com\/en-US\/DQ+Ads\/default.htm\">commercial<\/a> where a woman dressed as scoops of ice cream knocks on the door of a man who is dressed as a waffle cone? She asks for chocolate syrup. The commercial says &ldquo;some things were made for one another.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Perhaps I was hungry when I learned Wal-Mart will be carrying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=Skype\">Skype<\/a> products and accessories but this commercial immediately came to mind.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Why you ask? Well Wal-Mart clientele are exactly the type of audience that I would imagine would be interested in Skype. Low income and most likely largely made up of immigrants to this country who of course have relatives in other countries.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Read the details on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/skype\/walmart-to-carry-skype-products-including-prepaid-calling-cards.asp\">Tom Keating&rsquo;s blog<\/a>. I would write more but I am going out for ice cream now. \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen the latest Dairy Queen commercial where a woman dressed as scoops of ice cream knocks on the door of a man who is dressed as a waffle cone? She asks for chocolate syrup. The commercial says &ldquo;some things were made for one another.&rdquo; &nbsp; Perhaps I was hungry when I learned Wal-Mart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,203,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}