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Ketchup question

Poll: which one will you buy? (25 member(s) have cast votes)

which one will you buy?

  1. The modest one (21 votes [84.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 84.00%

  2. The enthusiastic one (4 votes [16.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 16.00%

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#1 User is offline   gwnn 

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Posted 2009-September-20, 18:43

Suppose you go shopping in a supermarket in a foreign country, you want to buy a bottle of ketchup. You narrowed it down to two brands.

They are both imported from the same country.
They have the same price and weight and tomato content.

But one of them is just like "quality ketchup." The other one has many superlatives written on it, with exclamation points. Which one would you buy? Why?
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Posted 2009-September-20, 21:00

The one that says "catsup".
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Posted 2009-September-20, 21:06

All else being equal I buy the one with the most appealing packaging. Why not rewarding good marketing.
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Posted 2009-September-20, 21:50

I can't imagine they're too expensive. Buy both and see which you like better. Give the one you don't like as much away.
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Posted 2009-September-20, 22:36

!!!!!!!!!!!! is tacky and numerous words are tacky, I'd go with quality ketchup.
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Posted 2009-September-20, 22:42

The one that's closest to me and head to the chocolate section.
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Posted 2009-September-21, 01:38

i'll buy the "Hunt's"
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Posted 2009-September-21, 02:36

I'll try the modest one, expecting that because they obviously spend less money for marketing they could invest into better ingredients.
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Posted 2009-September-21, 04:44

hotShot, on Sep 21 2009, 04:36 AM, said:

I'll try the modest one, expecting that because they obviously spend less money for marketing they could invest into better ingredients.

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Posted 2009-September-21, 06:22

Modern life offers too many choices. I am pleased to report that my wife is the quickest decider on these things of anyone I know. Sometimes we end up with pineapple chunks instead of pineapple rings, but we are in and out. I assure you that she has no idea of what country the ketchup she buys comes from.

But I voted for modest. I can't resist a poll. Modesty is good.
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Posted 2009-September-21, 06:32

Hanoi5, on Sep 21 2009, 05:44 AM, said:

hotShot, on Sep 21 2009, 04:36 AM, said:

I'll try the modest one, expecting that because they obviously spend less money for marketing they could invest into better ingredients.

This.

or they're simply pocketing more of the sticker price.

btw.. i got it right. :P
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Posted 2009-September-21, 06:38

we should have those [spoiler] tags like movie forums :angry:
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Posted 2009-September-21, 07:44

matmat, on Sep 21 2009, 07:32 AM, said:

Hanoi5, on Sep 21 2009, 05:44 AM, said:

hotShot, on Sep 21 2009, 04:36 AM, said:

I'll try the modest one, expecting that because they obviously spend less money for marketing they could invest into better ingredients.

This.

or they're simply pocketing more of the sticker price.

btw.. i got it right. :lol:

Or bigger profit margins..... :angry:

I would buy both and see which one tasted better. I would expense them both as "R&D" and claim a deduction.

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Posted 2009-September-21, 08:17

hotShot, on Sep 21 2009, 08:36 AM, said:

I'll try the modest one, expecting that because they obviously spend less money for marketing they could invest into better ingredients.

Or it could be because they have more money because their product is good :angry:.

You might invest a lot of money in merchandising when your product is average-good, but you are not doing so when it is awful. The good with the expensive merchandising might be better or worse, but it cannot be awful, that's what I'd pick.
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Posted 2009-September-21, 16:46

Well I bought the one with the exclamation points and now I bought the one without them. matmat indeed got it right, it was Hunt's vs Libby's, I must say Hunt's tastes much better. Well I exaggerated a little, the two actual bottles were very close to

http://www.healthyheartmarket.com/images/p...etchup_full.jpg
http://www.senecafoods.com/images/photo_in...scondiments.jpg
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Posted 2009-September-21, 16:52

I'm surprised so many Americans answered this thread. I have eaten a ton of ketchup in my life but I don't believe any of it was imported.
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Posted 2009-September-21, 16:55

hmm jdonn? Americans don't shop in foreign countries?
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Posted 2009-September-21, 17:03

gwnn, on Sep 21 2009, 05:55 PM, said:

hmm jdonn? Americans don't shop in foreign countries?

For ketchup?

Actually a funny memory I have was going to Belgium when I was 16 for a week. The family I stayed with had ketchup on hand. On the back of the bottle, in French, it said "From America: Land of liberty and ketchup". Not exactly how I think of America, but I guess in Belgium it may be.
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Posted 2009-September-21, 18:13

jdonn, on Sep 21 2009, 06:03 PM, said:

in French, it said "From America: Land of liberty and ketchup". Not exactly how I think of America, but I guess in Belgium it may be.

I'm guessing "Land of Liberty and secret prisons" or "Land of Liberty and the world's largest thermometer and ball of twine" wouldn't sell stuff.
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Posted 2009-September-21, 19:11

I'll have some of Ken's pineapple ketchup.
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