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Offline smurfboy

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« on: November 05, 2004, 05:11:54 pm »
Why do certain comapnies make severla versions of the same thing? It mystifies me that Cadbury's launched Twirl and Spira within a year, and now have Flake Dipped - the difference is minimal! Yet bars like Five Centres which are a bit more unusual get dropped. Weird eh...
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« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2004, 05:22:15 pm »

Its market research etc - giving the people what they think the people want - but on occasion getting it quite wrong! As is the case with 5 centres and cabana and texan etc


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« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2004, 07:55:27 pm »

Apparently, Cabanas were only on sale up North and were not sufficiently popular to market nationwide!


Or was that the Secret?


Anyway, talk about lack of research!


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« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2004, 08:00:49 pm »
I used to have  a Cabana every sunday morning on the way back from the newsagents.That was so long ago.
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« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2004, 09:10:13 pm »

Never had a Cabana either!!!


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« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2004, 07:57:34 am »
Well I used to live in London and we had Cabanas.
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« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2004, 09:05:20 pm »

So, could it be the Secret then?


I read it somewhere.


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« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2004, 09:13:14 pm »
No, I'm sure you could get Secrets everywhere.  Unfortunately.
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« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2004, 10:55:10 am »
I remember having had a Secret bar and I am in the South East London/Kent area.