Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site olivee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!olivee!gnome From: gnome@olivee.UUCP (Gary Traveis) Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: Re: Re: New Coke/Old Coke Message-ID: <419@olivee.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 16:43:09 EDT Article-I.D.: olivee.419 Posted: Mon Jul 15 16:43:09 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 20:26:51 EDT References: <745@ihuxa.UUCP> <14100001@ccvaxa> Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca Lines: 24 > > > There was a rumor on WGN (Ch. 9, Chicago) that new Coke is selling so > > badly in the South and Texas that the company may reintroduce old Coke > > (without necessarily pulling new Coke off the market). > ---------- > You all know by now that this rumor turned out to be fact. I confess, > I'm sufficiently cynical that I believe this is exactly what they > intended all along. They got lots of attention and another product > to take just a little more shelf space (the absolute number one most > precious resource in supermarkets) and they can run ads saying "Classic > Coke was so good that you wouldn't let it die." > > -- > scott preece > ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece When this whole thing started a while ago, a friend of mine in the radio industry (commercial, that is) "predicted" the return of old Coke almost to the day. Psychic? No, he has a friend in the advertising artwork dept at Coke. "You helped bring it back... we're listenning to you..." Yeh, I'll bet.