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From: gnome@olivee.UUCP (Gary Traveis)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Re: New Coke/Old Coke
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 16:43:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 16:43:09 1985
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> 
> > 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.