{"id":11802,"date":"2014-12-05T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11802"},"modified":"2014-12-05T13:07:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T18:07:49","slug":"hot-cakes-are-not-selling-like-hot-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/hot-cakes-are-not-selling-like-hot-cakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Cakes Are Not Selling Like Hot Cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/120514_1758_HotCakesAre1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Stock noted that Taylor Swift&#8217;s new album, the Xbox One, and even Ebola toys are apparently selling like hot cakes these days. What&#8217;s odd is that hot cakes aren&#8217;t selling well at all:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hot cakes are basically pancakes and the term &#8220;selling like hotcakes&#8221; comes from the days when people bought them at bake sales and ate them before they got cold.<\/li>\n<li>Pancake mix sales declined in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>The average American spends just over a dollar on pancake mix every year.<\/li>\n<li>Google search trends also show that the popularity of the term &#8220;hot cakes&#8221; has waned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stock suggests that from now on we say that things are selling either &#8220;like quinoa&#8221; or &#8220;like ramen&#8221;. Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-11-19\/selling-like-hot-cakes-it-doesnt-mean-what-it-used-to\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-11-19\/selling-like-hot-cakes-it-doesnt-mean-what-it-used-to\">Businessweek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Stock noted that Taylor Swift&#8217;s new album, the Xbox One, and even Ebola toys are apparently selling like hot cakes these days. What&#8217;s odd is that hot cakes aren&#8217;t selling well at all: Hot cakes are basically pancakes and the term &#8220;selling like hotcakes&#8221; comes from the days when people bought them at bake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/120514_1758_HotCakesAre1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11805,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11802\/revisions\/11805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}