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Old 07-25-2025, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by jimhoward View Post
There is a weird reason why so many Tide variants are offered. It’s not because they are all needed or all sell well. It’s because they want to create a bigger footprint on the store shelves. By offering so many different products the shopper walking down the detergent aisle sees nothing but Tide products.
I vaguely remember an article or TV segment on this subject. Manufactures also FIGHT to have their products placed on the eye-level shelves. Who knew that was a thing?
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