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- <text id=90TT1861>
- <title>
- July 16, 1990: Business Notes:Marketing
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 16, 1990 Twentysomething
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 51
- Business Notes
- MARKETING
- Press Here For Samples
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> A new kind of vending machine is arriving in supermarkets,
- but don't bother bringing extra change on your next trip.
- Nabisco is testing devices that dispense free samples with the
- pull of a lever. The Nabisco Samplers hand out a small box of
- a new product like Graham Bites, along with a coupon toward the
- purchase of a full-size package and a thank-you from a
- synthesized voice.
- </p>
- <p> The sampling devices may lack human warmth, but they never
- tire. Says Nabisco's Allan Falvey: "Most sampling programs last
- a couple of days and reach only 15% of a store's customers.
- These machines are in a store 24 hours a day." Nabisco says
- that when new products have been promoted by Samplers, sales
- doubled within a month.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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