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Happy 85th Birthday, Sliced Bread

(SliceOfChic/Flickr)
(SliceOfChic/Flickr)

Sliced bread turns 85 years old this month. The Chillicothe Baking Company sold the first wrapped package of sliced bread in history on July 7, 1928.

So what can sliced bread teach us about business?

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