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BUSINESS, Page 59Business NotesCONTESTSEveryone's a Winner (Oops)
Kraft made a lot of its customers ecstatic last week, then made
them furious. In the company's Ready to Roll contest in Chicago and
Houston, readers matched game pieces in a newspaper ad with ones
on specially marked packages of cheese. Only a few were supposed
to match, but a printing error produced millions of potential
winners. Worse, hundreds of people thought they had won the grand
prize: a $17,000 Dodge Caravan. In response to customer complaints,
the food giant offered a compromise: $250 in cash for winners of
the van, lesser amounts for the other winners, and a drawing for
four times the original number of prizes.