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Chat => General => Topic started by: smurfboy on November 05, 2004, 05:11:54 pm

Title: Really similar bars
Post by: smurfboy on November 05, 2004, 05:11:54 pm

Why do certain comapnies make severla versions of the same thing? It mystifies me that Cadbury's launched Twirl and Spira within a year, and now have Flake Dipped - the difference is minimal! Yet bars like Five Centres which are a bit more unusual get dropped. Weird eh...

Title: Really similar bars
Post by: lemoneye on November 05, 2004, 05:22:15 pm

Its market research etc - giving the people what they think the people want - but on occasion getting it quite wrong! As is the case with 5 centres and cabana and texan etc

Title: Really similar bars
Post by: on November 05, 2004, 07:55:27 pm

Apparently, Cabanas were only on sale up North and were not sufficiently popular to market nationwide!

Or was that the Secret?

Anyway, talk about lack of research!

Title: Really similar bars
Post by: loulou on November 05, 2004, 08:00:49 pm

I used to have  a Cabana every sunday morning on the way back from the newsagents.That was so long ago.

Title: Really similar bars
Post by: one_serious_chocoholic on November 05, 2004, 09:10:13 pm

Never had a Cabana either!!!

Title: Really similar bars
Post by: oldspice on November 06, 2004, 07:57:34 am

Well I used to live in London and we had Cabanas.

Title: Really similar bars
Post by: on November 06, 2004, 09:05:20 pm

So, could it be the Secret then?

I read it somewhere.

Title: Really similar bars
Post by: goldencup on November 06, 2004, 09:13:14 pm

No, I'm sure you could get Secrets everywhere.  Unfortunately.

Title: Really similar bars
Post by: chocolate chick on November 08, 2004, 10:55:10 am

I remember having had a Secret bar and I am in the South East London/Kent area.