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> wheat is wheat, but an iPhone and an Android phone aren't totally fungible.

You can also use branding-slash-marketing to make your fungible product seem less fungible. Witness, for instance, how cattle ranchers used marketing campaigns to turn "Angus beef" into a premium, name-brand product (http://bbq.about.com/od/beef/a/Angus-Beef.htm) that customers don't believe is directly substitutable with unbranded beef.



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