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by DopplerSmell 774 days ago
When you value a business, part of it is brand and people's habits. The new owners are betting that they can trade in that value for cash, by selling a crap lesser product under the old name, and that this will return faster than a sustainable business.

It's not obviously bad from a finance point, it's just significantly shorter term thinking than the original owner.