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This episode originally ran in 2012.

Prices go up. Occasionally, prices go down. But for 70 years, the price of a bottle of Coca-Cola didn’t change. From 1886 until the late 1950s, a bottle of coke cost just a nickel.

On today’s show, we find out why. The answer includes a half a million vending machines, a 7.5 cent coin, and a company president who just wanted to get a couple of lawyers out of his office.[…]

Source: https://www.npr.org/2023/10/11/1197954275/price-coca-cola-rerun