Did you know that many of the competing products you find at the grocery store are made by the same manufacturer? Take shampoo for instance. There are only a couple of major manufacturing facilities that make shampoo, so there’s very little difference between Vidal Sassoon and Suave (except the positioning and the price).

This common practice came into the public eye recently due to the contaminated pet food scare of 2007. More than 60 million cans of pet food sold under more than 100 brand names had to be recalled due to contamination. People wondered how 100 separate brands could all become contaminated at the same time, until they learned that the actual pet food comes from a single Chinese manufacturer.

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