- Oct 9, 1999
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At lunch today we got to talking about how some products seem to have far too many choices than needed.
Too many: unanimous agreement was cigarettes. There is an astounding number of different brands, not even counting the variations within a brand (king size, 100s, menthol, light, menthol light, extra light, etc.). Burning tobacco in a paper tube just doesn't seem to justify that many different brands. The convenience store near me has giant overhead racks of cigarette packs, probably 150 different kinds if not more. The smoker in the group said you'd be crazy to smoke one of the unpopular brands since they would never be fresh, and stale cigarettes are very unpleasant to smoke. Yet they survive?
Runner up was pens. Go to any office supply store and they'll have dozens of different brands, most of which have a retractable medium point, black ink.
Ran out of time before we could tackle products which could use a few more choices.
I said I would stop by ATOT and ask for other suggestions.
Too many: unanimous agreement was cigarettes. There is an astounding number of different brands, not even counting the variations within a brand (king size, 100s, menthol, light, menthol light, extra light, etc.). Burning tobacco in a paper tube just doesn't seem to justify that many different brands. The convenience store near me has giant overhead racks of cigarette packs, probably 150 different kinds if not more. The smoker in the group said you'd be crazy to smoke one of the unpopular brands since they would never be fresh, and stale cigarettes are very unpleasant to smoke. Yet they survive?
Runner up was pens. Go to any office supply store and they'll have dozens of different brands, most of which have a retractable medium point, black ink.
Ran out of time before we could tackle products which could use a few more choices.
I said I would stop by ATOT and ask for other suggestions.
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