It‘s worth noting that this has been going on for quite a while now in Europe. Two of Germany‘s largest retailers, Edeka and Rewe, don‘t stock products from quite a few companies like Mars, PepsiCo and Procter&Gamble anymore. Edeka even went to court with Coca-Cola because of their ludicrous price increases in 2022.
And both retailers haven’t shied away from making these issues very public. They‘ve often put signs into the empty shelves explaining the situation in detail.
They are obviously more afraid of having to explain those massive price hikes to customers, than they are of not stocking these products at all. Which, seeing how little the manufacturing costs actually increased while profits for the manufacturers surged, is definitely a good thing for consumers.
Well good, fuck ‘em. Pepsi I mean. I had a gf who was obsessed with Diet Pepsi and the price has over doubled in the past few years. In 2020, you could easily find 2 liter bottles for $0.99, $1.25. Then they went to $1.75… $2.49… $2.99. You can still find them on sale 3 for $5, not not often or all the time. I’m pretty sure that the cost of bringing Diet Pepsi to market has not increased 300%.
Are there extra taxes on sugarly drinks in EU countries?
It seems they do in individual countries but not EU-wide. Not very much though, it says an average of 7.5 cents a can.
So, that can not explain rise of the price then…
Sugary drink taxes don’t apply to diet sodas either
They would probably keep the same cost for diet and non-diet Pepsi and pocket the difference.
I swear I’ve seen this news multiple times across three social networks and not once was the title not fucking clickbait.
It’s Carrefour. Carrefour dropped Pepsi. Carrefour.
Fuck modern journalism 🙄
Carrefour is a supermarket giant in Europe. So the title isn’t off.
If you’re not familiar with European grocery stores, you’ll have no idea what Carrefour is. “Supermarket Giant” makes sense to everyone.
Pepsi owns Frito-Lay, so I wonder what else is going on behind the scenes? And did Carrefour also drop Quaker Oats?
What’s a Quaker Oats? I guess they dropped it 1958 when they first opened, along with everybody else.
(Kidding, kinda, I have heard the name, but I couldn’t tell you what you get inside a box or what you do with it. Eat it, presumably, but I don’t know how).
It is an American brand of oatmeal. You cook them to make a porridge.
And did Carrefour also drop Quaker Oats?
Yes. As well as Lipton, 7Up, Doritos…
PepsiCo is in the find out part of the fuck around.
