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Originally Posted by Rick TYler
Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs, boy  . I *did* look near the bathrooms, I just didn't think to walk around into unused tunnels behind food vendors to look for drinking fountains. Normal architecture is to put them in front of and near the entrance to restrooms. Perhaps this was marketing -- follow building code rules by having drinking fountains, but make them impossible to find so that people keep spending $25 a gallon on bottled water. That, my friend, is capitalism in action!
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From my second day notes in MKTG 350, Principles of Marketing, at USC:
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marketing: the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of goods and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals.
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Hiding a water fountain meets all of that definition except for individual goals, hence we're now no longer meeting the definition of marketing and moving more into the realm of highway robbery. Given the importance of hydration to keeping healthy at FRC events, this topic should be brought up with the Dome and GWCC staff. (Or, alternatively, work with someone willing to hook up a few hundred teams with water as they have at Palmetto in years past.)