Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.5 $; site ccvaxa Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!seefromline From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: Re: New Coke/Old Coke Message-ID: <14100001@ccvaxa> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 10:57:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.14100001 Posted: Thu Jul 11 10:57:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 08:32:57 EDT References: <745@ihuxa.UUCP> Lines: 15 Nf-ID: #R:ihuxa.UUCP:-74500:ccvaxa:14100001:000:652 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!preece Jul 11 09:57:00 1985 > 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