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To: T.B. Yoits

No it is because of the bottling companies lobbyists.

Coke is closing locations because of government cutbacks.


18 posted on 03/31/2026 11:02:59 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

I work at our local food bank. Walk right past beans, rice, canned veggies......chips and cookies, how many can we take???

Sad. The kids run the house.


20 posted on 03/31/2026 11:05:54 AM PDT by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: Chickensoup
It's not just soda and juice but other sugared items.

I can tell you from firsthand experience that it's a bear to manage items in a national chain's systems based on different criteria by state, county, and larger cities.

And good luck with counties that have "blue laws" which don't allow sales of certain items on Sunday or after certain hours during the week. It's an absolute nightmare.

Years ago, some jurisdictions started restricting soda above a certain volume (regardless of calories) and calorie content limits on individual snacks. It forced the buying, merchandizing, planning, and allocation teams to set up greatly varied items and layouts, often for stores that were a minute or two away from each other. The costs and effort of managing such variances were ridiculous and the problems it caused in the stores was unbelievable.

And that's not even getting into changing the technology for the vending machines. The cost of retooling to manufacture a soda vending machine production line alone for the new smaller cans was preposterous.

28 posted on 03/31/2026 11:31:44 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Chickensoup
Coke is closing locations because of government cutbacks.

Sales of Woke-a-Cola have been in decline due their anti-white racism chasing customers away.



29 posted on 03/31/2026 11:43:41 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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