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Why shoppers once rejected sliced bread

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Apparently, avoiding a knife was viewed as highly suspicious behavior. When pre-cut loaves first hit the shelves, shoppers utterly rejected them, convinced the mechanical slicing process would make the bread go stale instantly, forcing bakeries into massive, desperate advertising campaigns.

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