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Auggie

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2. WTF? Seriously???

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue May 21, 2019, 01:11 PM

May 2019

I would think Coke would want to bury this blunder. I was working at McCann-Erickson at its introduction -- Coke's ad agency -- and we had some of the very first sips. We expected it would be a failure. So did the the local bottlers.

Maybe Eleven can send the formula and the whole New Coke team to the Upside Down.

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