Kuwait's traders wrote checks with no cap on maturity — then $94B of them bounced
An unregulated market let speculators pay with postdated checks due whenever they wrote, turning ordinary trades into a credit pyramid four times Kuwait's GDP.
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2,011 公開済みの事例 · 随時更新Joom banned 120,000 Chinese seller accounts overnight — $180M frozen
The Latvia-founded platform attracted Chinese sellers with low commissions, then froze $180M after customer service dropped from 95% to 45%.
事例を読むJapan Home's 34 Singapore stores are being absorbed by a dollar-store chain
After three straight years of falling profit, losses doubled to S$2.3M — Valu$ is now licensing the remaining stores on a three-year deal.
事例を読むTower Records' revenue fell from $1B to $430M in a year — every U.S. store closed
Debt from 1990s expansion left the record chain with no cushion once digital piracy and big-box price competition gutted CD sales at the same time.
事例を読むFacial-cleaning chain 洗脸熊's prepaid-card store-run stranded members across cities
Facial-cleaning chain 洗脸熊 ran on franchisee prepaid cards with no escrow — in late 2025 stores shut overnight, refusing to recognize each other's members
事例を読むOVENSTAR's Ningbo push broke cash flow, shuttering stores and leaving wages owed
Wenzhou bakery OVENSTAR (欧文酵室) scaled into Ningbo, lost its only supplier — and by July 2026 stores were closing with ~¥1.53M wages owed
事例を読むZara's China stores fell from 183 to 60 — a local rival ate its market
Zara peaked at 183 mainland stores in 2018. By March 2026 it had about 60, while domestic rival UR passed 400 stores and opened 30+ more in 2025 alone.
事例を読むDuolingo went AI-first and fired contractors — users deleted the app in protest
Duolingo fired 10% of contract workers in 2024 and announced an AI-first strategy in 2025; users protested by deleting the app.
事例を読むFortnum & Mason bet on a HK flagship as its first overseas store — it lasted six years
The 300-year-old British grocer opened its first overseas flagship at HK's K11 MUSEA in 2019. By January 2026, it was gone.
事例を読むMCHOSE spent heavily on hype and water armies — then the keyboards started breaking
The Chinese peripheral brand grew faster than its quality control. Three competitors signed a statement against its paid water army campaign.
事例を読むPrada's Chinese spokespeople keep falling — Zheng Shuang lasted eight days
Named ambassador, dropped eight days later over scandal. Then Li Yifeng, then Cai Xukun. Chinese netizens call it the 'Prada curse'. 300 million views.
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