{"id":12340,"date":"2011-01-17T17:11:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T08:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=12340"},"modified":"2011-01-17T17:11:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T08:11:24","slug":"groupon-ceo-andrew-mason-apologies-japanese-customers-on-osechi-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/groupon-ceo-andrew-mason-apologies-japanese-customers-on-osechi-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Apologizes To Japanese Customers For Osechi Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A half month after <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/02\/groupon-fails-to-bring-happiness-to-japanese-new-year-holidays\/\">the &#8216;osechi'(traditional Japanese New Year food) trouble<\/a>, Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason appeared on video on the <a href=\"http:\/\/info.groupon.jp\/topics\/20110117-515.html\">Groupon Japan official blog<\/a> to offer his apologies to  Japanese Groupon users.<br \/>\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"306\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CDMLMFxEY4A?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n&#8220;We learn from this mistake, and don&#8217;t repeat the same mistake twice.&#8221;<br \/>\nI think most Japanese customers will be satisfied with this, and perhaps even like Groupon more than before the incident. Mason&#8217;s apology is similar to the apologies given by Japanese executives from time to time in the past, though Mr. Mason didn&#8217;t do a deep bow. Isn&#8217;t this style a bit strange for an American company?<br \/>\n(proofread by Adam Walls)<br \/>\n[Update: follow-up articles]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/groupon-slows-down-after-new-year-osechi-incident-in-japan\/\">Asiajin \u00bb Groupon Slows Down After New Year Osechi Incident In Japan<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/06\/groupon-japans-osechigate-still-smoldering\/\">Asiajin \u00bb Groupon Japan\u2019s Osechigate Still Smoldering<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A half month after the &#8216;osechi'(traditional Japanese New Year food) trouble, Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason appeared on video on the Groupon Japan official blog to offer his apologies to Japanese Groupon users. &#8220;We learn from this mistake, and don&#8217;t repeat the same mistake twice.&#8221; I think most Japanese customers will be satisfied with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/groupon-ceo-andrew-mason-apologies-japanese-customers-on-osechi-trouble\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Apologizes To Japanese Customers For Osechi Trouble<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[222,260,1453,3962],"class_list":["post-12340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-andrew-mason","tag-apology","tag-groupon","tag-video","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}