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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: New and old Coca-Cola
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Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 11:27:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 26 11:27:15 1985
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Summary: Can't sell it? Give it away!

>>> Is it possible that Coke changed the formula of their soft drink, even know-
>>> ing it would drop in popularity, because it calculated that the new formula
>>> would be so much cheaper to put out than the old that even with the drop in
>>> popularity that could be expected, they STILL would make more profit?
>>
> [...] It appears that now Coke is resorting to an appeal to the "lost lambs".

Heard on a Seattle radio station:
   "With every fill-up of Shell gasoline, you get a *FREE* six-pack of Coke."

It seems they can't sell it, so they're giving it away!
-- 
Bill Swan 	{ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill