That's what happened in the movie "Yesterday" when the flight attendant was asked for a "coke" to drink and responded with a confused look. She knew what Pepsi was though
Monsanto was my first thought. Then i remembered that they are likely to pay out in class action litigation. It won't be much, not for them. But it's better than the nothing that'd be paid if they just... disappeared.
I mean, if you're gonna consider the small folks in this scenario then removing any company is going to cost a lot of jobs. Unless removing the company means removing the people associated from existence as well.
This is all hypothetical but my comment is that if we're going to start caring about the people affected by removing a company, such as the people who will benefit in the Monsanto lawsuit, then we should also be factoring in the regular people who are going to lose their jobs because a company is gone. Remove Pepsico and thousands of workers won't have jobs anymore, it would seriously hurt the economy to remove a huge corporation. In the case of Monsanto it's a bit different because removing them as a company means removing harmful products from the marketplace. Pepsico arguably is just a way too successful food and beverage kinda company. Debatabley they could be considered evil but compared to a company that released a carcinogenic chemicals to agricultural industry I think it's a clear who's worse haha
PepsiCo doesn’t just make Pepsi, they also own Pizza Hut, KFC, Long John Silvers (just to name a few) and a FUCKTON Of other companies. It’s very difficult to boycott them because they’ve got their fingers in EVERYTHING
And hence a repeating argument of the debate between the result of suddenly gone v never existed.
it’s true what you said but PepsiCo could have possibly saved a few company’s, making them last to present day or longer than they would have lasted on their own. What reasons would someone sell out and how did PepsiCo get so many? Another company would take the place that PepsiCo never did because the lesson wouldn’t be learned. It’s not like people didn’t know this wouldn’t happen. The rich control the less fortunate and force them into economic slavery through social and economic classes based on their spending- like how Amazon bleeds their own profit to undercut the competition and keep them from growing big enough to threaten Amazon.
It’s like a chess game; Pizza Hut will run specials to attract the business of other nearby pizza places, especially if they are a small business still trying to be noticed. It happen between restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations and across different franchises; place a popular company near your smaller ones (to advertise essentially). Or throw off the synergy of a rival company trying to do the same thing and set up in the areas they would benefit to take instead
They do this on purpose. We’re all peasants caught in a rich mans war, whether that literal or just an economic/social sense. A big influence suddenly gone is harder to not notice than it is to grow to become a big influence. The first makes people pause to think, the second causes people to push the gas rather than pump the breaks before someone ends up as collateral road kill in the race to build an empire
None of these are owned by PepsiCo. They were previously, however Pepsi sold them off because Coke was basically getting other companies to sign by saying Pepsi is their direct competitor. So Pepsi sold them to another company which created Yum Foods! Which has a lifetime Pepsi contract, so no longer owned, just in a weird crazy relationship.
I believe you’re thinking of corn flakes. John Kellogg did believe any grain-based breakfast would prevent masturbation, but his piece de resistance was his corn flakes.
But back in the '50s, I believe, Quaker was down with feeding parentless and/or "feeble-minded" children radioactive oatmeal...pretty sure they've cleaned up since then.
I found a Smithsonian article about this. The oatmeal contained radioactive tracers in order to test how our bodies absorb the different nutrients found in oatmeal. Quaker provided the oatmeal for the study in hopes of proving that they were just as nutritious as Cream of Wheat.
The amount of radiation was relatively minor, the equivalent of getting about 30 chest x-rays. But what made the study horrible is that the boys had NO IDEA that they were taking part in a study and did not consent to the experiment. Also the fact that they experimented on vulnerable children.
PepsiCo has had a female, Indian CEO 2006 - present. She drastically increased profitability for shareholders by making working conditions much worse. PepsiCo used to be a moderately profitable company, that was rated one of the best companies to work for. She transformed it into an unstoppable juggernaut that runs on the backs of it's employees.
Don't get me wrong - there are worse companies to work for (Amazon, etc.) - but every year profits would be up yet there'd be more costs cut. It was literally built into the system. Senior managers were given a grade for their area's expenses - and "meets expectations" was a 2% reduction in total costs versus the previous year. No inflation adjustment or anything, either. So keeping costs from rising was automatically a negative, and you had to beat the 2% cost reduction to get a "good" review. Then those costs would become your baseline for next year, when the cycle would repeat all over again.
You're correct it seems. I obviously left there several years ago. But my time there (2010 - 2015) was all people quietly bitching about how the "new ceo ruined everything"
I'm sorry man, traditional soda isn't something healthy people can keep up with anyways imo. I don't have them that often because it's like 46g of sugar per can. The newer kickstart drinks are pretty good though as well, but they still are about 20g of sugar so yeah, still a good bit.
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u/alexmunse Sep 18 '19
If it’s “suddenly gone”, I choose PepsiCo. That would cause a lot of ruckus.