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Re:Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal' by SilasX on Monday April 25, 2016 @01:19PM (#11565724)
Was it physically easy to raise prices by a penny?

IIRC, there was an account of an issue with Coca-Cola's vending machines and them not wanting to raise prices and finding all kinds of convoluted workarounds, including asking the treasury to issue a 7.5 cent coin.

Re:Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal' by astrodust on Monday April 25, 2016 @01:40PM (#11565865)
There are Coke signs attached to buildings that to this day advertise 5 cent cola.