GNC
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Can't find a mention of this one: a matchbox company in the 20th Century found sales were going down, so devised a sneaky way to get them going back up again. They printed the same pattern on the top and bottom of the matchbox, so that the buyer would open them the wrong way around some of the time, and the matches would fall out onto the floor or ground, thereby necessitating the purchase of more. This worked out for the company.
Any truth to that? The problem as far as I can see would be: what's to stop the buyer from picking the dropped matches up? Unless they went in a puddle, perhaps.
Any truth to that? The problem as far as I can see would be: what's to stop the buyer from picking the dropped matches up? Unless they went in a puddle, perhaps.