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How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?

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Re: How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?

#11

The new design doesn’t mention the pulp level and that’s one of the main things I’m thinking about when trying to pick out an OJ. So when you pair that with a redesign, it’s unclear to me what’s in the carton.

Yeah, exactly. I'm scanning for no pulp, calcium, and vitamin D.

Re: How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?

#12

The new design doesn’t mention the pulp level and that’s one of the main things I’m thinking about when trying to pick out an OJ. So when you pair that with a redesign, it’s unclear to me what’s in the carton.

Yeah, exactly. I'm scanning for no pulp, calcium, and vitamin D.

Yup, I steer clear of calcium enhanced OJ, because it ruins its flavor.

Re: How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?

#13
This article looks like an odd repackaging (wink) of the original:

https://medium.com/loceye/how-we-predicted-tropicanas-big-fa...

...Which is also maybe a bit tenuous, given that they just had people do eye tracking on renders of the packaging, and the two cartons are angled differently. Does that translate into real world eye attention?

Re: How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?

#14
More questions than answers.

How is this being so certainly attributed to packaging change?

And why was the packaging changed? As it stands, this seems like a major change to a successful brand for no apparent reason.

And why would you move away from such a strong and heavily advertised image of the straw in the orange? I remember those commercials and as soon as I saw that straw directly extracting juice from an orange I associated the brand as being as close to pure, fresh orange juice as possible. I was young.

Re: How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?

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Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/993/

This is essentially the "No Name" brand in Canada. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Name_(brand)

Also, there is a generic-as-a-brand brand in Japan, “Muji”: https://www.muji.com/jp/ja/store

Re: How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?

#16
This is a little bit of a tangent, but I've always thought that it was funny that orange juice is overwhelmingly sold in liquid form, not as frozen concentrate. You can buy concentrate here in the US, but it's much less common (and, IME, fewer and fewer grocery stores stock it.) Given that most liquid orange just is just reconstituted concentrate anyways, buying the liquid form means paying for the shipping and space cost of the water.

Re: How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?

#17

This is a little bit of a tangent, but I've always thought that it was funny that orange juice is overwhelmingly sold in liquid form, not as frozen concentrate. You can buy concentrate here in the US, but it's much less common (and, IME, fewer and fewer grocery stores stock it.) Given that most liquid orange just is just reconstituted concentrate anyways, buying the liquid form means paying for the shipping and space…

Also interesting that elsewhere liquid concentrate is also popular. Which has the same benefits as frozen but with less of the hassle. Sometimes called Squash[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_(drink)

Re: How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?

#18
The newer one could have been fixed with a distinctive flair such as a green line following the brim of the glass or an orange peel besides it in the corner or a separate glass coloring for the base of the glass, anything that separates it from the everyday.

The problem is there's no motif. It doesn't need the straw orange but it does need some thing.

If you have a hard time distinctly describing it, generally you have a hard time remembering it

Re: How did Tropicana lose $30M in a packaging redesign?

#20

This is a little bit of a tangent, but I've always thought that it was funny that orange juice is overwhelmingly sold in liquid form, not as frozen concentrate. You can buy concentrate here in the US, but it's much less common (and, IME, fewer and fewer grocery stores stock it.) Given that most liquid orange just is just reconstituted concentrate anyways, buying the liquid form means paying for the shipping and space…

I got into the mango orange juice, and it got really hard to find.. which led me to frozen and there’s no going back! There are so many more options, and a lot more options without added sugars and corn syrup being added to the mix.
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