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Default "A bottle of your second-cheapest wine, my good man."

Paraphrasing from the recent "Supermarkets: The tricks of the trade"
episode of "Tonight":

A supermarket sells two kinds of wine, one for £ 3.79 (Brand A) and
another for £ 4.49 (Brand B), which differ only in quality. On
average, about two-thirds of customers buy Brand A and one-third buy
Brand B. Problem: Increase total turnover without cutting or raising
prices. Solution: Introduce a third and better kind of wine (Brand C)
selling at £ 9.99. It turns out that even though very few customers
will buy Brand C, about half of those who used to buy Brand A will
shift to Brand B, thereby increasing total turnover.

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-01-21/s...trade-tonight/

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