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Old 01-01-2010, 04:41 PM   #84
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Originally Posted by tis View Post
Years ago, you returned bottles in this state. Some people used to walk up and down the road looking for bottles and returning them for the money.
I was one of those kids walking the streets in the 60s picking up bottles for $0.02 each. Two cents was worth the effort to this kid. That was the free market at work. Not a government program with layers of bureaucrats making a living out of it with hopes of poor redemption to make profits. The good old days. Coke paid the retailer money to get the bottle back so they could wash it and use it again and again.
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