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Reminds me of this article I read a few years back, also interesting: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-tide-black-market-2013-1 http://www.businessinsider.com
by kilroy123 11y ago
Reminds me of this article I read a few years back, also interesting: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-tide-black-market-2013-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-tide-black-market-2013-1
- maxerickson 11y agoThe Priconomics article mentions and links the New York Magazine article that your link is based on. The NYM article reads an awful lot like a submarine piece for that amazing technological wonder, Tide, the expensive to produce detergent that gives anything you wash with it a quality feel.
- eli 11y agoMaybe, but in DC a few years ago the CVS near me put Tide (and only Tide) behind the counter and left other brands on the shelf.
- maxerickson 11y agoYeah, it's probably not fair to speculate about it being a submarine piece, but it really does meander around and extol the many virtues of Tide.
- rconti 11y agoTide is HUGE in the hood. Hell, it's even huge ON the hood of a NASCAR team.
- bch 11y ago...and reminds me of this[0] where residents of hard-hit Beattyville Kentucky use Coke or Pepsi as currency to support their addictions. Both this soap situation and the cola situation are horrible, but it's fascinating to see how people cope. [0] http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/12/beattyville-kentucky-and-americas-poorest-towns http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/12/beattyville-k...