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A soup company found its canned nacho cheese sauce was too hot for Americans in the East and not hot enough for those in the West and the Southwest.As a result,the company's plants in Texas and California produce a hotter nacho cheese sauce than is produced in its other plants.The company is using segmentation to satisfy these different markets.


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