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Selects: How Tupperware Works

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Tupperware

Tupperware started all that. And this stuff is garbage. The lids don't fit right ever. They break. It's made and it was made during a time of much more disposable thinking. At the time it was like we're going to make something that will last forever. So he formed Tupper Plastics. Things did not take off though. Like he thought they would. He put them in department stores. And hardware stores for some reason. Not a good place to sell your Tupperware. Back then you probably just went to hardware stores for nails and hammers and stuff. Yeah I'm sure they're home goods and stuff too. But even still they weren't

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