Layoffs are never pretty. But when it hits close to my 3rd-party-tee-creation-and-drop-ship home I really take notice. Last week TechCrunch had the story that Zazzle (one of the big three along with Cafepress and Spreadshirt) was laying 25% of its corporate staff and 15% of the overall company. That means 28 of the 110 corporate staff are now searching the classifieds.
It does give pause. Zazzle had seemingly been on a tear of successful big-name tie-ins; everything from Star Wars to Mozilla. It has long been regarded as having the best API for developing independent stores. However, even they (apparently) couldn’t escape economic realities that people are just buying less.
All that’s left is to hope that poorly photoshopped big-body man will be able to find work somewhere else.
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