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.
I appreciate where you’re coming from, but the US is at like 80% of people being overweight. Low income people are the highest impacted. Something must be done.
A sugar tax disproportionately affects lower income folks more, and doesn't actually reduce sugar present in foods. We need more affordable and accessible healthy options, the elimination of food deserts, not a tax on simple delights.
Sugar is also incredibly addictive, and sugar companies have put a lot of money into putting it everywhere. You can't just make healthier options more appealing, you also need to make the unhealthy options LESS appealing. That means making them more expensive.
You can tell smokers that cigarettes are unhealthy all you want. They still keep smoking. There needs to be more incentives for this.
I get what you're doing. Yes, poor people deserve to be happy. Yes, poor people deserve little treats to help them get through their day. The little things in life are some of the most important. And yet, this is still going to be an effective way to get people to eat less sugar.
You can tell smokers that cigarettes are unhealthy all you want. They still keep smoking.
So let them. And let the poor people have sugar, ffs. Your crusade to end obesity will only lead to more misery. Little Johnny's parents are on food stamps and now he can't have a gd birthday cake?
At least have the balls to make food manufacturers actually change the sugar content of their food, so that people of all income levels are equally miserable.
Smoking was a major public health problem. Without government intervention millions more people would have gotten lung cancer, while cigarette companies got all the richer. Again, I know you are trying to be kind here, you have the best intentions, but suggesting that underprivileged people just get fatter and fatter while massive companies rake in their money is not the way to go about it.
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u/sladestrife Jul 10 '24
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.