Posted on 09/23/2014 8:44:16 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
across the board soda makers have lost sales the last several years. regular and diet versions.
Are those products sold at CVS? Oh, wait....
Counterintuitive. They should leave people who want to buy their products alone, and leave it for others to solve. Nobody forced them to buy it, and making them feel guilty for buying your product doesn’t help any party.
Just start calling anything that is a drink, and sugary a “sugary drink”. Especially those touted as “healthy”, like orange juice, apple juice, pineapple juice, hell even carrot juice has lots of sugar. When they protest those things are “healthy” Tell them that if they’re going to use a label like “sugary drink” be both honest and fair about using it, otherwise knock it off. take the language back. Of course a lot of libs let other people do their thinking for them so they might just be parroting what others have told them.
CC
Put out a good cherry phosphate for heavens sakes!
11 years to reduce the sugar content in soda???
My main beverage is water, too. When I want a soda, once a month, cheap store brand tastes the same as the expensive national brands.
I figure if we survive the Obama era and all the leftist execs that predated it, in about 20ish years it is going to be a golden era where companies profit as never before selling consumers everything they ever dreamed of.
Seriously. No joke.
Right now and in the immediate future, more of these idiot execs will push their own brand of social/economic/whatever justice. They will detonate themselves and their companies in the process just as many have before. Without govt subsidies and cronyism, they cannot endure. As increasing absurd regulation kills it’s own golden goose (liberal power), the landscape changes.
since the left is again ending it’s latest cycle of popularity as we see reflected in their own polling, more economics driven execs will either replace the idiots and turn around the failing companies or more likely,, build their own, delivering what consumers want and refuse to play along with an increasingly ignored govt. Black market or white.
When most of us simply stop playing the govt/lib game, we;ll get back into form.
Maybe Coke could go back to only selling 6.5 oz bottles, like they did before the 50s.
As an aside, look at the Twinkie situation. Thats exactly what happened. The unions, idiot leftist management and Govt cronyism combined to destroy the company.
It emerged from the ashes with new structure and ownership selling lotsa twinkies sans unions ...with all the sugar intact.
Ever notice they haven’t been in the news much since? Libs can’t talk openly about their great failure so they just pretend it does not exist.
No, Twinkie isn’t some savior company, but it does serve as a guide.
If they would go back to real cane sugar... Obesity would decline quickly.
Corn sugar is stored first as fat, then burned. Cane sugar does not like to be stored as fat and burns as energy first.
Coke didn’t want to sell any size but 6.5 FL oz, but in the late 40’s they were getting clobbered by pepsi who were selling 12 oz bottles for the same price as cokes 6.5 oz. So coke starting bottling larger sizes to regain market share from pepsi.
They are only protecting their self interest from the ever increasing scrutiny of the leviathan state that wants to regulate everything.
Besides, they sell as much 1 and 0 calorie products as they do sugar sweetened beverages. As a matter of fact they sell almost no sugar sweetened drinks in America as our ridiculous sugar import tariff drives the price of sugar to the point that they use only corn syrup in their beverages. And it tastes like crap. Gives your mouth a nasty aftertaste and strange coating.
BRING BACK REAL CANE SUGAR IN OUR DRINKS!
The difference in taste is astounding.
Agreed
They could reduce calories 50% if they changed the label - two servings per can instead of one. That’s symbolic progress, and the far left only cares about symbolism (well, symbolism and power).
Saw a report on TV early this morning that indicated they would reduce the calories by making smaller cans/bottles; thus reducing the ounces per container, but not the calories per ounce.
They already charge more for smaller containers. An 8 pack of 8oz bottles is 64oz and costs more than a 6 pack if 12oz bottles (72oz), and both cost more than a couple of 2 liter bottles.
Smaller containers = higher packaging costs and those costs are passed on through the pipeline to the ultimate consumer. The smaller containers will just entice consumers to drink more frequently, as they will have that mental thought that it’s only a little bit.
Producers will sell just as much, or more, and make big $$.
The sugar substitutes are even worse for you than sugar. Better to swear off coke and pespi completely and let their companies fail altogether.
Water and coffee or tea for the work week. Beer and wine on weekends. You'll be a lot healthier.
11 years to reduce the sugar content in soda???
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Read further down to my comment vs. the article.
They’re not reducing the calories per ounce; just reducing the ounces per container.
Anyone else remember those little penny-candy wax bottles that had a bit of colored sweet liquid in them?
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