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Subject: Re: [OM][OT] Lens Cleaning Solutions Getting OT
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:38:24 -0800
 >FYI, it costs them more the pack and ship than for the contents.  And I
would venture a guess that the margin on the cost of production is several
hundred percent.
Bruce Appelbaum
Yorktown Heights, New York

Forget water - someone did the sums here and worked out that the value of
the contents of a 2 litre bottle of coke was around one sixth of the true
cost of the PET bottle itself. Hmmmm. No wonder he local agent is called
"Coca Cola Bottlers Pty. Ltd." - they're in the bottle retailing business!
Andrew

Sort of like the old soviet joke about the guy taking a wheelbarrow of trash out of the plant every night and the guard diligently rummaging through the trash overlooking the fact that it was the wheelbarrow that was being stolen.

Winsor
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California, USA
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