Do you remember the time the Coca-Cola Company tried to avoid raising the price of a Coke by just stealing money from their customerspic.twitter.com/mNLmGdGFNX
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"Coca-Cola never implemented this strategy — now known as 'consumer fraud' — on a national scale"
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The full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_price_of_Coca-Cola_from_1886_to_1959 …
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Side note, I'm just awestruck by that leading paragraph's failure to actually explain what the fixed price was. The omission is maddening in a way I didn't know I could be maddened
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You know what prevents all companies from doing this, all of the time? Regulation
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"An unfortunate manufacturing error!" (at this point I think the bottle/can & distribution apparatus may be more of a factor in the cost than the contents though, so this is a rather inefficient solution to the problem.)
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