Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Countries

Re:Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Cou... by nmrm2 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @11:31AM (#10259226)

> If the business owners/clients are stupid enough to give away the best experiences for cheap, it's their own damn fault for not having any business sense whatsoever.

And yet Groupon is closing down operations in 7 countries and laying off 1000 people.

Groupon's customers are these small businesses, for Groupon to succeed it needs to be in a symbiotic relationship with these businesses. "It's your fault for being an idiot" isn't the correct way for anyone to think about Groupon's relationship with its customers; that sort of thinking will only backfire even harder.

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Re:Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Cou... by caskance on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @12:08PM (#10259499)

It's done great for them up to this point. How many companies wish they were in a position where they had operations in 7 countries to shut down?

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Re:Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Cou... by ceejayoz on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @12:19PM (#10259585)

That's a little like saying "So what if your bird died? How many coal miners wish they even had a pet canary in the first place?"

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Re:Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Cou... by jessaustin on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @12:24PM (#10259619)

Yes many companies wish they had the opportunity to burn fat stacks of VC cash. Some of those might have expanded to two countries instead, and not been forced to write off the whole thing soon after.

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Re:Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Cou... by omouse on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @01:12PM (#10260014)

That's a good point; and it should have been an obvious avenue for Groupon to serve those customers.

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