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 rapt0rclw rated 15 months ago- From the page: "David Phillips, also called The Pudding Guy,[1] is an American civil engineer best known for receiving a huge number of frequent flyer miles by taking advantage of a promotion by Healthy Choice Foods in 1999.
Phillips, who teaches at the University of California, Davis, calcu...
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- rapt0rclw rated 15 months ago
- From the page: "David Phillips, also called The Pudding Guy,[1] is an American civil engineer best known for receiving a huge number of frequent flyer miles by taking advantage of a promotion by Healthy Choice Foods in 1999.
Phillips, who teaches at the University of California, Davis, calculated while grocery shopping that a mail-in promotion for frequent flyer points exceeded the cost of the entree on which it is offered. In May 1999, Phillips received 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles, enough for thirty-one round trips from his home in California, to Europe.
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Phillips calculated that the return on a mail-in food promotion outweighed the price of the Healthy Choice frozen entrees. He later discovered the same promotion also included individual pudding packages at 25 cents a piece. He subsequently visited ten grocery stores in the Sacramento area, buying every case of pudding available, in the end, totaling 12,150 individual servings of pudding,[2] for $3,140"
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