Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Detours: Hallmark, Kansas City, and the decline of the greeting card industry”.
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It’S just a folded up piece of paper, there’s a thoughtful or funny message inside, but behind every single one of these readings is actually a multi-billion dollar industry and at the center of it all, is hallmark. The largest greeting card company in the world and one of Kansas City’s largest employers – your grandmother gave me this nose ring and now I’m giving it to. You start a new tradition and have a happy birthday. So these are just raw card ideas that have not yet been finished like this is one that somebody turned in and it’s a drawing of a tiny, little hole, punch and it just says inside I love you a hole, punch which seems really cheesy and silly, but Then we get to this finished idea and then there’s the bonus surprise of the lasered out hearts when you’re talking about asking someone to pay upwards of you know really starting around two dollars or more for something there has to be something, that’s connecting it to you. So I think we’re just always looking for that kind of shared common experience that people have together. If, if someone gives someone a funny greeting card, I’m out of that equation by that they’re, not giving someone a card that bill gray wrote what they’re doing is they’re handing someone a joke that they made you, and I share this joke together and that’s why you Know that’s why ho marks golden, because we know we know how to do that for its first 90 years. Hallmark was how you said: happy birthday.
Merry Christmas and sorry, your cat died, but then everything changed keycards came about in 1994. They were primitive at first happy 15, but they quickly grew in popularity. They sang they dance. The did things that paper cards just couldn’t do and, most importantly, you didn’t have to leave your chair to send them in the late-1990s hallmark began, laying off hundreds of employees between 1999 and 2008.
The company let go of more than a quarter of its workforce, shrinking from 20,000 employees to 12,000. Today, since then, hallmark has been playing catch-up, trying everything from iPhone and iPad apps, robotic toys that move and bark 3d printers and laser cutters hallmark, is competing with new hybrid services like apples cards app which allows users to send physical cards straight from their iPads and Iphones, over a year after the launch of Apple’s cards, hallmark launched its own similar, app go-carts, which was greeted with a lukewarm response in the App Store. Hallmark’S struggles aren’t just with new technology. That’S what the way technology has changed culture a hundred years ago, when hallmark was founded.
People couldn’t express themselves through an email, Facebook, gifts or emoji, and today young people are sending fewer greeting cards than ever before. Despite all that, people still think there will always be a place for physical greeting cards. Maybe I’m too romantic about this, but I think there will always be a need for some sort of tangible artifact that can be exchanged between two people. A lot of people want to hold in your hand and look at it. They don’t want to buy it on the Internet, they want to come in someplace and look at it, buy it and take it all. I just think that’s never gon na go away.
You know you can get a little motor cons and our little faces and stuff smiley faces that you want to put on there, but it doesn’t take the place of somebody. Actually. You know sometimes just like right now, if it’s hot and I write them, that it might be a little sweat stand or whatever or if I’m feeling emotional, you might see a couple of Tears fans on there, but 80 % of the times the kids are going To go for the instant right there, I really don’t even want to think about what I would be doing. If I wasn’t doing this when I came here, I thought I would hang around here for a couple of years and it opened up the first day.
I was here, I knew that this job was it, and this is what I want to do. They’Re gon na have to drag me out of here. .