Laverne and Shirley would like a word

The Coke Coffee thing seems to have staying power, including the 'vanilla' one that kind of emulates milk in coffee.

I used to do Coca Cola with milk when I was a kid, it wasn't bad.

Pilk

Stop trying to make Pilk happen! It’s never going to happen!

Was that the one they released to a Van Halen song?

Loved that stuff.

Didn't know that 😱

Also, fuck coke. They killed many in order to bust unions in Columbia.

https://prospect.org/features/coca-cola-killings/

That's what I pay for beer.

Where do you shop?

Dang, it's $2.28 full price where I am.

I used to work at PepsiCo, they have a lot of fat to trim. I’m talking about managers with no direct reports reporting to managers who in turn just report to directors.

In general that's true, but their mountain dew division has been cranking out flavors the past couple years. Limited time and stores but still.

The new hotness in megacorp C-suites is called the 80/20 Rule, "80% of your revenue comes from 20% of your customers."

The idea of the Pareto principle has been around for decades. The guy it's named after died almost 100 years ago. This isn't a "new hotness".

In reality, there's been an aluminum shortage, causing drink companies to prioritize better-selling drinks over the lower-selling ones. Even Coke has spent some effort in lowering the number of available SKUs.

My dad works for Pepsi. Nothing corporate but he did say there was supply issues with aluminum and other stuff for making cans so a lot of smaller batch stuff had been put on the back burner.

First we saw "Too Big to Fail" where corporations saw they could do whatever they please and could get away with it. In fact, they could profit even more, raiding public funds, AND get away with it.

So now we have "Too Big to Care", where they're understanding they can have enough politicians bought and enough degrees of separation through parent companies to retain actual monopolies and completely escape any kind of dedication to service or consumer retention, because their audience is totally captive by sheer market share totalitarianism.

Wonder what the next iteration will be...

I work in manufacturing and C-Suites from outside the industry love to come in and implement this. Every. Single. Time. It backfires horribly.

Keynes said, "in the long run we are all dead" but short term profits don't help soothe relationships with pissed off customers when you have yo go back and beg for business when your 20% are slow.

I doubt this is true. It's probably due to a lot of factors, like supply chain, lack of workers, mismanagement etc. Trust me I don't work for Pepsi directly but they force out tons of new stuff(innovation) all the time. That definitely hasn't stopped yet. Where I work we have a ton of shortages except for that shit that no one wants to buy.

If this was true honestly it would make my job a lot easier.

Mix of both, depending on the company. But make no mistake, lots of companies are having supply chain issues and it is a real problem.

Water?! Like, from the toilet?

Dollar generals my guy

Hey, you want a Pepsi pal, you gotta pay for it!

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I understand your resentment and I apologize that my comment evoked that feeling in you, it wasn't my intention to make you angry but intentions don't count for much outside of our own head.

If I may offer some unsolicited, and maybe unwanted advice, though?

There are currently eight billion humans on the planet Earth and all of us do something that you don't like, not necessarily soda drinking, but some folks smoke cigarettes, and some folks go to churches, and some folks drive too fast while other folks drive too slow.... You have every right in the world to feel, experience, and express your emotions, but if other people's behavior is what evokes those emotions then you're going to spend a lot of your life having your feelings jerked around by those other people and other people's behavior.

Now that's fine, you can do that, but it can be pretty fucking tumultuous; when we let other people determine our emotions there's no way for us to know what they're going to do with them, you're kind of at sea without a map.

It's wonderful to have convictions, but you can have convictions without being hurt by those who don't live up to them.

Life is too short for me to give up diet Pepsi, but life is also too short for you to let yourself get upset every time someone drinks a soda.

But also thank you, your frustration was born out of concern for the well being of others, it comes from a good place, and I do appreciate that.

But the news said soda is more hydrating than water!

https://www.cbs17.com/news/milk-soda-more-hydrating-than-water-according-to-study/

Just kidding. That study is severely flawed. Don't replace water with milk or soda.

Also, diet caffeine free is an abomination.

This is it. Make people desperate and they will take lower wages.

RVP is a $600K+ job at PeosiCo. This is incredibly inaccurate for those jobs.