Q And what was the thinking behind that strategy?
A The thinking was that they're going to pick the best product. They're going to pick what the customer likes, what they liked. Give you an example how ridiculous it is. The kids liked a certain kind of mayonnaise, because it was thick, and it would, um, hold things together, and we were buying our mayonnaise at the time from a guy up in New York City that was really hard to get along with, and so when we hired our first purchasing agent, um, he said, there's no way that mayonnaise is this important. No way, because this guy was so hard to deal with. So we had all the family come in and do a blind mayonnaise taste. And to this day, I can't eat mayonnaise by itself. So we had like nine different dishes with mayonnaise, and you had to take a little spoon, and everybody would taste the mayonnaise blindfolded. And he'd say, I'm going to prove to you that you can't tell the difference in this mayonnaise or any other mayonnaise, you know. And after the, after we took our blindfolds off, my wife, myself, and all the boys picked the same mayonnaise.
AI assessment note: “The thinking was that they're going to pick the best product.”