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What is a product that you won’t accept a generic alternative for? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, if you insist on buying Advil instead of store brand ibuprofen. I mean, you’d be wasting your money in that example, but you do you

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[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

TBD, Hydrox is a pretty bad name and Oreo definitely had the better marketing team.

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

It's because of the time. The owner wanted to imply cleanliness in production, chemistry was pretty new, and what could be cleaner than water? Hence Hydrox

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

"A lot of people worked really hard on this."

"Why?"

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