Once there will be no more digits to use for displaying price per gallon they will be forced to display price per liter as it still could fit

  • teslekova@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Focus groups commissioned by the company get the results that the company wants. That is the entire point.

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      Are you saying the company wanted results saying people didn’t understand 1/3 is more than 1/4?

      That would be stupid.

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        17 hours ago

        Yes, that is exactly what they wanted.

        Ever hear the phrase “couldn’t sell water in a desert”? A damning claim of incompetence, right?

        The A&W marketing team couldn’t sell a hamburger to Americans.

        Americans.

        They couldn’t figure out how to sell this hamburger. To Americans.

        Americans aren’t particularly known for their rejection of fast food burgers, but here is a fast food burger, and here are Americans, noses upturned at the prospect of ordering it.

        A&W desperately needed a scapegoat, and “Our customers are stupid” was easier to swallow than their nasty-ass burgers.