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"jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:PM00052D61A3645979@aca4072c.ipt.aol.com...
> hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>> On Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 6:40:54 PM UTC-5, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> At a sales conference I was once forced to attend, the marketroids
>>> proudly trumpeted the term "product differentiation".  When you
>>> read between the lines, this is exactly what they were talking about:
>>> making their product different, even if it meant screwing it up.
>>
>> Sad.  They're focused on making a product 'different', but not
>> necessarily _better_ than the competition.  (When I was a kid, we
>> were taught that business grew because they made things better
>> than their competitors.)
>>
>> On the other hand, I must admit I do feel sorry for marketers at
>> say a laundry detergent company.  Laundry detergents haven't changed
>> much, but they have to constantly come up with new graphics for the
>> container, and new ways to say "NEW AND IMPROVED".
>>
>> (I don't understand why they switched from powder to liquid.  I
>> think the liquid costs more to make and ship than powder.  Was
>> it just marketing?)
>
> <snip>
>
> You, obviously, have never had to clean a clothes washer
> which had accumulated 1/4" of soap mixed with dirt and oil.

That never happened to any clothes washer that I ever
had anything to do with that used a powder detergent.