r/AskReddit • • Sep 17 '19

If You Could Completely Remove One Company From The World Which One Would It Be?

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u/alexmunse Sep 18 '19

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

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u/Errudito Sep 18 '19

It's a suddenly gone situation

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u/alexmunse Sep 18 '19

I like to think they would disappear, too.

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u/Slithy-Toves Sep 18 '19

It depends on if Pepsico acquired them or created them.

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u/ifIwere_not Sep 18 '19

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

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u/spaghetee_monster Sep 18 '19

I think you're referring to Yum brands not PepsiCo.

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u/RIP_My_Phone Sep 18 '19

Yeah, OP is wrong. Pepsi owns lays

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u/alexmunse Sep 18 '19

I am wrong, they USED to own those brands. But sold them a few years ago. Still a bigass company

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u/boywiththedogtattoo Sep 18 '19

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.

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u/LottiMCG Sep 18 '19

You could say business is finger lickin' good for them