https://www.newsadvance.com/news/trending/how-fisher-price-created-rock-n-play-without-safety-tests/article_c21555b1-6794-54ed-abb2-6fcc9670ee77.html
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FP leadership has spent the past five years talking about how to position the company as the industry leader in baby sleep products. The Sproutling tech was meant to serve as the centerpiece of some sort of future state of data driven sleep solutions. The first shoe to drop was when it turned out Sproutling had sold Mattel a bill of goods and their tech was just smoke and mirrors the whole time and now with these dozens of Rock N Play fatalities coming to light all that time and money and planning and FP has nothing to show for it. This series of events highlights the dysfunction within FP leadership and their failed approach at innovating in this space.
Sleep expert and fp is an oxymoron. Remember this is the company that also recently made that infant sleep band monitor that gave babies rashes.
Strangely, I don't see any posts from the Sleep Experts at FP anymore on social media...
Our incompetent CFO clearly has zero moraility, as well as being financially inept
How is this a hit piece? Even if initial testing didnt reveal issues, fp should have recalled it after the first few deaths not a decade later. That’s unethical.
"Does anyone really think KP wasn't on her game when this was being tested?"
Clearly.
Anyone who works in children’s products knows you don’t make products that rely on people reading the instructions to prevent death. Geez.
This is a hit piece. Does anyone really think KA wasn't on her game when this was being tested? There were safety precautions clearly marked on the package. You can't fix stupid. This is why planned parenthood needs more funding and condoms should be in free dispensers on every street corner.
Mattel, Fisher-Price's parent company, estimated the recall would cost it $27 million, plus at least $30 million more in lost sales for the rest of the year. But Mattel's chief financial officer Joseph Euteneuer downplayed the impact during an earning calls late last month, saying damage from the Rock 'n Play — considering Mattel is a $1 billion business — "is roughly a couple low percentage points."
Haha - doesn't Mattel realize that FP and AG are going to sink this company.