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Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots

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Re: Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots

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Post by 9nGQluzmnq3M »

For everybody who was saying "Wikipedia is complete, there's nothing left to write about" yesterday, as far as I can there is not a word about this on the whole site, certainly not on the Pepsi page. Time to get to work!

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Pepsi+349&ns0=1&...

Edit: I stand corrected, there is a single paragraph in here. Nothing standalone/linkable though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_in_the_Philippines

Re: Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots

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Post by capableweb »

Interesting story, but the clickbait headline is not needed here. Story ends with:

> At the end of everything, Pepsi’s total combined losses, between physical, legal, and brand equity costs, would top $20M. Their market share would plummet and take years to rebound.

The "$32 billion" seems to come from the amount of bottles who would win the prize, but Pepsi didn't actually pay out the promised amount, so it didn't cost them $32 billion in the end.

Re: Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots

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Post by duxup »

9nGQluzmnq3M wrote: post #3

For everybody who was saying "Wikipedia is complete, there's nothing left to write about" yesterday, as far as I can there is not a word about this on the whole site, certainly not on the Pepsi page. Time to get to work! https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Pepsi+349&ns0=1&... Edit: I stand corrected, there is a single paragraph in here. Nothing standalone/linkable though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_in…

Is this something that should be on the Wikipedia Pepsi page?

While it is an interesting story I don't really think it is the kind of thing I'd be looking for.

Re: Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots

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Post by 9nGQluzmnq3M »

duxup wrote: post #5
9nGQluzmnq3M wrote: post #3

For everybody who was saying "Wikipedia is complete, there's nothing left to write about" yesterday, as far as I can there is not a word about this on the whole site, certainly not on the Pepsi page. Time to get to work! https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Pepsi+349&ns0=1&... Edit: I stand corrected, there is a single paragraph in here. Nothing standalone/linkable though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_in…

Is this something that should be on the Wikipedia Pepsi page? While it is an interesting story I don't really think it is the kind of thing I'd be looking for.

There's acres on eg. Crystal Pepsi and New Coke, neither of which (AFAIK) caused any people to die.
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