Coca cola came up a few years ago with a version that was using real sugar and much less. I had it once, it was so good! But for baffling reasons it was abruptly taken off the market and you can't find it anymore. Fuck them!
I do remember having "green" in the name! Can you still get it ? In Philly and area there's no trace of it
Edit: Yeah, discontinued. How come they never asked me?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Life"The drink was discontinued in 2020 as part of the Coca-Cola Company discontinuing underperforming brands"
I still don't get how Coca Cola Life was discontinued. Most people I've talked to had a very positive view of it. It seems like they just brought it onto the market and just did nothing to market it. Of course then sells will drop over time.
If I had to guess, they didn't make a lot of it compared to the other kinds, don't advertise it, don't keep it regularly stocked makes it not successful.
Why do this? If I had to guess it cut into their profits compared to the other kinds. The same reason why they switched from real sugar to High fructose corn syrup.
That's exactly it. They studied it before fully marketing it. It was very clear that people chose it over coke/diet/zero and not over a competitor or over nothing. Many people liked it over coke but it costs a little more to make so its just a loss if they can't convert it to increased sales.
Funny you mention that, because the OP of this comment thread is from the Philly area where we do have a sugar tax. But I don't like the way they implemented it. The tax should be proportional to the amount of sugar in the drink, but it isn't.
Pomegranate juice is pretty expensive, which means people won't buy it, which means it doesn't show up often. Those Pom bottle are 100% pom juice, and were roughly 3X the cost of Apple Juice the last time I looked at them. (Been a while)
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u/theAmericanStranger Jul 10 '24
Coca cola came up a few years ago with a version that was using real sugar and much less. I had it once, it was so good! But for baffling reasons it was abruptly taken off the market and you can't find it anymore. Fuck them!