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In tests, consumers didn’t discern any difference in taste between the naturally and artificially colored M&M’s, the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

The “old oil-shock model assumes supply disappears first, prices spike next, and demand only cracks later after consumers, refiners and governments have been dragged through the pain machine,” Innes said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026

“Survey data from AlphaRoc shows that 47% of consumers still do not trust self-driving vehicles at all,” wrote BofA Securities analyst Alexander Perry in a recent report.

From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026

Blue entered the lineup decades later, after 10 million consumers voted for it to replace the tan M&M, over purple or pink.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

They rounded up not just thousands but hundreds of thousands of consumers all across North America, and in head-to-head blind taste tests, New Coke beat Pepsi by 6 to 8 percentage points.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell