Article: Woolworths apologises for disappointing customers

Retailer Woolworths Holdings (WHL) on Wednesday said that despite only having been asked to remove the "Good Old Fashioned" phrase from the labels of its vintage soda range it had taken the decision to withdraw the soft drink range from its shelves.

"Whilst we maintain that we have not copied the Frankie's range, it is clear that public sentiment is against us.
 
I'm not disappointed more amazed at some people thinking that Frankies is the sole inventor of cinnamon + cola or retro drinks.
 
Don't know if I'll be buying another bottle of Frankie's. Their entire approach to this matter just seems as if it's fuelled by bitter, pathetic self-righteousness.
 
Pr⊕phet said:
I'm not disappointed more amazed at some people thinking that Frankies is the sole inventor of cinnamon + cola or retro drinks.
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While Frankies didn't invent retro drinks, there is no question in my mind that Woolies "copied" a lot of the Frankies range from all of their flavours to the catch phrases and even the retro ladies (on the large woolies bottles). It was a massive bungle on their part.
 
Abe said:
While Frankies didn't invent retro drinks, there is no question in my mind that Woolies "copied" a lot of the Frankies range from all of their flavours to the catch phrases and even the retro ladies (on the large woolies bottles). It was a massive bungle on their part.
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To be clear you are saying

1) flavours was copied ? - yet you can found loads of shops that sells these flavours as sodas such a local place called silk road at the coast.

2) catch phrases was copied ? - that's what the application was for wasn't it ?

3) bottles was copied ? - well not all of us has a proper vision I suppose and some might see same bottle looking at the two quite different ones.


That your points? I can agree on no2, but not with 1 and 3 as it's clearly different and taste can't be trade marked. Seriously the britians was already drinking dandelion and burdock as a soda in the 1265's, should I now toss away all my borduck stock ?

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Pr⊕phet said:
To be clear you are saying

1) flavours was copied ? - yet you can found loads of shops that sells these flavours as sodas such a local place called silk road at the coast.
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Of all of the flavours out there they happened to release every single one offered by Frankies at the time they spoke with Woolies. Right down to the Cinnamon Cola which is extremely rare. That's copying flavours IMHO.

3) bottles was copied ? - well not all of us has a proper vision I suppose and some might see same bottle looking at the two quite different ones.
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I will get a photo of the large bottles at woolies if they still have. Up until the time I saw one I didn't understand the bottle copying part.
 
Frankies root beer is a disappointment to me, nothing like a good frosties...

But I like their drinks anyway, it's good to have a refreshing choice.
 
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Abe said:
Of all of the flavours out there they happened to release every single one offered by Frankies at the time they spoke with Woolies. Right down to the Cinnamon Cola which is extremely rare. That's copying flavours IMHO.
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Sigh. I'm not going further, it's obviously circle conversation. I'll end it with this:

John sells lemon juice.

Susan see it's good to sell juice for an income. She also opens a lemon juice stand.

John adds cinnamon to it.

Susan see it's good to add cinnamon. She continues with normal, but adds spicy lemon too.

Taste can't be trademarked. Recipe ingredients to a point. None of those flavours are anything rare, even pepsi had cinnamon cola back in 2004. Shall we now sue them too ? I think not. They were pissed at competition and that their offer was turned down, oh bo ****ing hoo and then went to legal arm, with of course the sheep at their rear. that's the amazement, though not unexpected as it is well in human behaviour.

If taste is trademarked then we can very well stop eating and drinking. No-one is allowed to sell chocolate icecream for example because you would have person X who was first and rare with it which is a fallacy to believe as much.

Now that is that and you are welcome to continue the loop on your own.
 
I think Coca Cola should bring out a cinnamon cola, and bring back vanilla coke.
 
i don't buy or drink either...just cherry cola and dr pepper from Spar, silly saga, either way got extreme marketing exposure for frankies, well done to them.
 
What about those Toblerone rip-offs showing up at Woolies over the last few weeks - I noticed those the first time about 4 weeks (conveniently placed in the checkout queue next to the real Toblerone). While the box is square and long, the chocolate slap resembles the triangle-shaped Toblerone and the chocolate itself has the same texture (nuts and all). Makes one wonder why Woolies does this?
 
It's good that these massive companies cannot just rip off people's stuff and get away with it.

As much as prophet is defending them it is fairly obvious they took all of frankie's idea's and instead of rebranding frankie's they tried to be sneaky.

A lot of their chocolates are also blatant copies.
 
killadoob said:
It's good that these massive companies cannot just rip off people's stuff and get away with it.

As much as prophet is defending them it is fairly obvious they took all of frankie's idea's and instead of rebranding frankie's they tried to be sneaky.

A lot of their chocolates are also blatant copies.
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I don't see the harm in highlighting some stupid beliefs like frankies was first with X or taste X is limited to them only. Commercially AFAIK no one is limited (as competition) to sell the same type of drinks, how else would we ever have multiple shops if similar products was limited to just a single shop ?
 
You cannot prove whether Woolies copied the taste or not.

I'm with Proff on this one.



/goes off to trademark the texture and taste of water
 
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