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- <title>
- Sep. 03, 1990: Business Notes:Packaging
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 03, 1990 Are We Ready For This?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 59
- Business Notes
- PACKAGING
- How to Arouse Your Thirst
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Have you felt a powerful, primal urge to reach for a
- six-pack of Pepsi this summer? If so, blame the packaging.
- Sharp-eyed Pepsi drinkers have noticed that the company's
- summertime series of decorative Cool Cans bear a hot message:
- SEX, in capital letters. When two Cool Cans of a particular
- design are stacked just so, the letters can be clearly
- discerned, running top to bottom.
- </p>
- <p> Pepsi insists that the word is an accident, the result of
- a random, computer-generated design based on the letters in
- Pepsi's name. The company concluded the promotion last month,
- but some cans remain on store shelves. The fluky labeling "has
- become an in thing with young people," claims TV consumer
- reporter David Horowitz. "My own 12-year-old is running around
- with the cans, showing everyone."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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