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The third-pound burger flopped because consumers failed to understand that one third is bigger than one fourth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-pound_burge
by latexr 1y ago
The third-pound burger flopped because consumers failed to understand that one third is bigger than one fourth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-pound_burger#Marketing_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-pound_burger#Marketing_f...
- moralestapia 1y agoThanks for this, wow.
- lupire 1y agoShould have promoted a quarter-plus-twelfth burger! That's about 37%!
- prmph 1y agoWhy complicate it: just advertise a fifth
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoWith a price markup.
- phkahler 1y agoThank you! I heard that on the radio decades ago but never saw a source to point people to. Wikipedia, who knew?