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> What I don't understand is why they're bringing back the old formula.
> ....  Even if I and the people I know are not a representative sample
> of the market, I don't see how the new formula can fail, unless the old
> Coke lovers hate the new stuff so much that they're not drinking any cola now
> (as I probably would if both Pepsi and Coke tasted like Coke's old formula).

   This is close. What people often forget is that there *are* other 
competitors for Coke besides Pepsi. There are other colas, and other
non-cola carbonated beverages. Coke clearly put too much weight on blind
taste tests, and forgot that there is a "traditional" loyalty to the 
old Coke. And I still claim I can tell the old Coke apart from Pepsi in
a blind test (but I couldn't make the same claim for new Coke)

--Greg
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