At my grocery store today, Coke was on a buy 1, get 2 free, and there was plenty of product. Having a little trouble moving your product?
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Soda used to be more of a treat, now it is often consumed several times a day. Yeah, and sugar was one thing but the HFCS is very bad. Our bodies don't know how to process it and it can destroy the liver. Now, non-alcoholic liver disease is a thing.
I have always been able to make soda last a long time, but I like the little cans they have now, even though they are a little more expensive. You get just a taste, which is all I really wanted anyway and I don't waste the larger can or feel compelled to finish it. That and I switched to drinking more sparkling water. I discovered what I was really missing was not the sugar et al, but the bubbles...
I love the Soda Stream machine I bought cheap on black Friday. It turns tap water into sparkling water and I create custom flavors from little bottles.
Unless carbonated water is a bad thing, I see no significant downside to my way of staying hydrated.
Yes exactly, the bubbles... scrubbing bulbs that wash down the sticky flem and bad tastes from foods, cigars, chewing tobacco etc..
The little cans are a great idea. I wish some of the sugar-cane sodas went to those.
Long ago I read a marketing book by John Sculley (CEO of Pepsi before his short stint at Apple) It was very interesting about the Cola Wars and how (and why) they introduced corn syrup. I think it was Coke early on that found that the bigger sized they made the bottles, the more people would buy. Then came things like the Big Gulp (which kept getting bigger and bigger) and Super Size.