On a recent trip to a BJ's mega-jumbo-cavernous Warehouse, I wandered to the toiletries section to pick up a package of soap bars for my wife. She specifically requested Dove soap and I happened upon 4-5 options from Unilever's big brand name.
As I was scanning the packaging on each type of soap, I noticed a peculiar play on words that had me wondering, "Are these marketing people serious? Or perhaps it's just a joke?"
Some of the soaps had: "Moisturizing Cream" emblazoned on the cartons.
Other soaps had: "Hydrating Lotion" depicted on them.
Ummm, okay.
Last time I checked, hydrating is synonymous with moisturing.
Ditto for lotion and cream.
Knowing enough about marketing to be dangerous, my hunch is that this is some sort of A/B split test to see which words sell better. Otherwise, perhaps it's just the Unilever marketers trying to liven things up for us bored consumers. Whatever the case, they might want to clean up their semantics...
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