One of the chief ways it has done this is by loaning 70, 000 freezers to retailers on condition that they stock only the company's products.

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No employer wants to condition inclusion of company stock as a 401k investment option upon sustained superior investment performance.

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If so, a dollar plunge might look more like the pre-condition for the October 1987 stock market crash than the healthy dollar weakness at the start of the 2002-2003 expansion.

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