Apparently the story goes that this 20-25 year old bottle was found in 2016(?), which went viral online, and Nintendo wound up sending the guy an unopened SNES anyway. (Plus a bunch of other stuff)
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Just the whole contests being offline and straightforward in general.
Nowadays, it's "enter the code on our website, view the ads, give us your name and email so we can send you more ads and sell your info to other advertisers. Also, you're not a winner. Buy more [product] and try again!'
I miss the days when your bottle cap said "You won a free 20oz bottle" and you could just hand that to the cashier as if it were cash.
I did always wonder the logistics behind that. Did those businesses get reimbursed from the contest runners? I like the idea of them trading in their piles of caps for cash
Yes, you can find dollar off coupons in stores and the fine print says the merchant will be reimbursed
When I worked at a chain grocery store, a manager would routinely close a register to balance the till, but also remove the coupons which were supposed to be compared to the computer system for accuracy, but mostly just got shoved into an envelope to send in to a regional place to sort by manufacturer and claim the $$$.
They did.
When the distributor came to re-stock them, they'd settle up and either get reimbursed or would have a credit applied to their current/next shipment.
They gave it to the soda distributor who would stock the soda. Guy in the Pepsi or Coca Cola truck would take it.
Or, ya know, a bank transfer. Or check. I'm not imagining RC cola coming in with a bag full of cash.
That seems like a "only at participating stores" sort of thing, wbere the local owner eats the loss in exchange for more people in the store.
It was actually more profitable for the business to accept the bottle cap because the vendors accepted the bottle caps back and gave them an additional eight cents.
I'm sure that doesn't seem like a lot but I mean hey you get an extra couple of bucks you make some kids happy everyone wins. Most businesses typically run on net 30 payments anyway so it's not like it's a huge ordeal for them to hold on to a couple of bottle caps for a week.