Coca-Cola earnings beat estimates as strong demand in Europe helps offset weakness elsewhere. Europeans need to do better
Coca-Cola earnings beat estimates as strong demand in Europe helps offset weakness elsewhere
I do better by avoiding sodas altogether... it's sugar in a bottle, no thanks.
My sister doesn't give her kids cola because of the sugar. It just has slightly more than bought orange juice and aplle juice and all that shit.
I suppose it may be time to expand the 30% tariff retaliation to anything owned by US companies.
I mostly drink some local store branded Cola that's made by company from my country. It's cheap as fuck and actually tastes better than any big brand cola.
Unfortunately, my local and popular soft drink company had been bought by Coca Cola years ago. They made the drink taste bad now, which is literal enshitiffication. Not much for any remaining local alternatives to buy.
Having this issue also, how not buy soft drink stands which are either owned by coca cola or PepsiCo is not as simple as it sounds
And if you’re making your own, don’t get a SodaStream because the factories are in occupied/stolen land in Palestine. DrinkMate is a better machine anyways.
They made the drink taste bad now, which is literal enshittification.
I think I wrote this recently elsewhere, but I just never drink nor desire soda. It just doesn't even occur to me as a thing to want. When I was a kid, we mostly drank water. It's kind of alienating to realize how many other people are seemingly fundamentally different on such a basic part of life like "drinking"
Same, my family weren't soda drinkers.
Make Tap Water Great Again
Haven't had a coca cola in about 10 years. I'm doing my part!
Coke free for a couple years. I'm doing my part
I wonder why fizzy sugary drink is now a necessity to drink.
I don’t see the same conversation around chocolate milk or pineapple juice.
People in the comments need to take a step back.
I don't drink cola outside of parties where I drink it with (cheap) whisky (I wouldn't ruin good whisky with cola), which I admit is still very bad for health, but at least not frequent
The only other time I'm glad to have some cola is when I have "stomache troubles" 🚽
The default drink used to be fizzy fermented grain or fruit.
It's honestly not anything new to not be drinking water just the people doing it are less drunk now.
Do better Europeans. Coke snitched on their own workers to ICE.
This could be largely because Pepsi has been expanding in the Russia and many are boycotting it for that. So, if the combined market share of those has risen, then we are not doing so badly :)
My husband I stopped buying Coca-Cola. We now buy Vikos Cola, which is a local brand in Epirus, Greece.
The saddest thing for me is that it is 90% impossible to drink gin-tonic without paying to Coca-Cola in Poland. For other 10%, the price of tonic is almost same as the price for gin :/
I've only bought Breizh Cola for years, and will continue to shame my friends who still buy "Nazi Cola"
Unfortunately, they're the only commonly-available cola with just sugar (rather than artificial sweeteners).
I've done a two-pronged approach, of finding alternatives (Karma and Mate are nice), and getting ready to start making my own with a carbonate.
But commonly, you'll need to buy an entire 24 pack to even approach the pricing of Coca.
What I have found is making carbonated squash often hits the spot nicely.
Do you bake and blend the squash? With or without oil?
Possibly a language thing: I mean this stuff.
For my Romanian and surrounding siblings who are also struggling with their Coke addiction, Auchan holds Adria Cola in large plastic bottles, and I found it to be similar enough in terms of content of uppers, and different enough to be an interesting change. Made by European Drinks, may even be found in smaller local shops (it's pretty common in Transylvania, at least).
They call it "advertising" because "propaganda" had unsavory associations. Coca-cola is a master of prop- er, Advertising.
I bet Norway consumes half of European demand in Coce Zero
You can blame me. Sprite Zero is about the only sugar free drink that doesn't taste like shit, and everything else took the sugar out and so Coke is the only one left for when I want a sugar hit. Yeah, it fucks your teeth up and makes you fat. My body my choice.
Honestly struggling to find decent alternatives in the UK that don't fall into the artisanal pricing category. Go past a quid a can and I might as well drink cider instead.
Ah, yeah, i had a very bad stomach flu last year.
That’s one of the companies who adapt their products to regional markets and produce locally.
The other thing is they’ve always had cooperations with fast food chains, restaurants etc, which pushes their products when it’s the only cola you can get.
@Sunshine Lemmy... I first thought it was a reddit post but it is not! A fedi reddit alternative? Yes please!
I wish there was an alternative available in the UK that doesn't contain artificial sweeteners, but there isn't. Coke is the only commonly available carbonated soft drink that doesn't also contain sweeteners. I hate the taste of artificial sweeteners, and they're carcinogen. I know sugary drinks aren't good for you anyway, but I will avoid sweeteners at least.
That's the only way they can get their corn syrup, as Europeans have better standards. Trump is about to fuck that up for them. /s
I also think most people have no idea how much shit is owned by coke, so maybe they're leaving coke on the shelves but buying some other brands owned by them instead? Also yeah Europeans sure love their coke zero and it's gonna be tough getting everyone to stop, there's probably correlation between liking coke and not giving a shit about politics.
When these companies reach certain sizes they're almost boycott proof. Simply insane how large they're allowed to become.
Coca Cola is owned by The Coca Cola Company, whose owner (or well, group with largest share) is Berkshire Hathaway Inc., owned by Warren Buffett (with his successor being Greg Abel). Ajit Jainil is a vice chairman, whose cousin was a co-CEO of the Deutsche Bank.
Coca Cola also sponsored Trump.
Duracell is one of the biggest part of Berkshire, but there's way more. Some holdings and subsidiaries have sub-holdings and subsidiaries!
It also has insurance companies which invest in policy premiums in some companies, up to many billions. Visa, Mastercard, Kraft Heinz, T-mobile, Mitsubishi, to name a few.
Companies are evil. Every single one that's big is one too many.
We should develop an app, downloadable from multiple app stores, to automatically scan a product and see if it's ultimately owned by a billionnaire and where some companies don't have workplace democracy. And the app should offer alternatives, from which you can order. Can someone on Lemmy here do it?
I am one of those who still gets cola zero :(
At this point I think it's an addiction, I didn't find something else from the EU to match it and was not successful thus far to quit it entirely.
But I'm still trying...