Andy speculated that later in the thread. I reeeeeeally hope that's the case.
From a distributor standpoint Ross is considered an "off-price" retailer, meaning they primarily purchase items that are factory seconds, or out of season or print, or discontinued or surplus. Still good stuff just usually outdated and cheaper. So to see it here first could definitely imply it's an inventory dump, but it's still very weird to see it straight to Ross.
I seriously doubt that Ryan Smith cares about any possible embarrassment associated with a failed rebrand showing up at Ross Dress For Less. He can simply decline to speak on it when asked by the media from now until the end of time.
All the game threads I made a few years ago were done with Microsoft Paint. I put out way better stuff than this.
Maybe the idea is to "leak" these to Ross, then they do a slightly different rebrand that also sucks, but isn't as bad. That way we'll all be saying "well these are bad but at least it's not that black and yellow ********.*
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It looks like Ryan Smith has an 8 year old who wants to be a graphic designer when she grows up so Ryan put her in charge of the rebrand.
