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Old Feb 7, 2018 | 10:52 pm
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Originally Posted by lilpisher


Marriott has always seemed to be the really focused on standardization and they were probably able to negotiate better terms bringing all the Starwood properties on board. I started doing some digging last week when I randomly had a bottle of Aquafina in my room amongst the Dasani and found a report that Marriott moved to Pepsi in the early 90s when Coke refused to give the (then) struggling company a $100 million loan.
Couldn't they get a loan from the Church of LDS?
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