Always preferred Pepsi anyway.
looks at Pepsi’s record
Ah shit
Water is not problematic (except for at least four fifths of bottled water)
I thought child slaves are good because more profit? /s
Anyone who tells me “there’s not enough money to go around” in the future is getting punched. I don’t care if I catch an assault charge. That propaganda was bullshit the first time I heard it and it’s always been propaganda.
Coca Cola also sponsors this event:
Meta and Koch Industries to Sponsor Event Featuring Climate Denier Barry Cooper
Coca-Cola is an evil company, so I’m not surprised. All they had to do was make cola, and be cool. Instead they operated like a criminal cartel, murdered labor activists in third world countries, exploited workers, bribed politicians, and evaded taxes. They should crumble under the weight of their crimes. If the government bails them out then we should all protest heavily.
I think it would be fair to destroy product you see in stores. something to weaken plastic on the outside of bottles, or shaking them. things that make product unsellable, or make it make a mess.
these companies are beyond evil, clearly simple “im not buying this” doesn’t work; retailers must be punished for stocking this shit.
If it’s on retail shelves, Coke already has their money. You have to aim higher.
Some retail stores now operate on a model where they essentially rent shelf space to wholesalers, who are responsible for stocking the shelves and keep all the money from sales of their product.
they have their money once. will they have it again? and again? and after this KEEPS happening?
You gotta corrupt the supply chain then. Shaking bottles in a store isn’t gonna do shit.
see, reducing demand at a retailer level is a lot easier to democratize and give kids to do so they feel empowered. plus it makes them think about OTHER products that are associated with awful shit. maybe, someday, I could even go grocery shopping without having to google every single god damn thing I put in my cart!
Your motivation is honorable, but this plan would only impact innocent retail employees and would not hurt Coca-Cola at all. I like your initiative, though.
their hours will be spent cleaning rather than doing the shit they originally needed to do. stores will need to hire more workers (and maybe security. but still) to keep the same standard. is wiping up cola really worse than collecting carts at 40c+?
Good.
How many people have diabetes because of their Coca-Cola addiction? How many people are overweight and hate their bodies because of all of the non-nutritious sugars they have drank?
And they have the audacity to not only charge several dollars a pop for their sodas, but to also bottle water in the exact same plant and charge the exact same price for the water they have bottled that they do for their sodas.
I love the response, “But this could mean we’d have to pay more!”
… and?
They’ll just…raise prices to offset the judgment.
And lots of people will stop drinking it because of that, and they will be healthier thanks to it.
we must never take any action against companies they’ll just raise prices or leave the country or fire everyone or or or or or
If they really have you so much by the balls then they’re a threat and need to be taken down
Keep going, I’m listening.
All my comment was saying is that this is a toothless judgment.
it’s better than nothing, and Coke has competitors that aren’t getting fined, so their hands are somewhat tied
I am sure they totally haven’t made any money off the taxes they didn’t pay. I’d love to steal a million dollars and only get fined a million dollars 10 years later!
The IRS charges interest and penalties.
Now do Cargill, Tyson, etc al.
In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing in 2015, Coca-Cola said it had been following the same method to calculate its taxable U.S. income from foreign affiliates for nearly 30 years.
So as tax laws changed, Coca-Cola just kept doing the same thing. Just go ahead and admit to fraud, I guess. Interesting strategy.
Nail them to the wall.
So they jack up the prices of their products
They’ll pay up… Pay up to the wealth defense industry.
If a government or a corporation has 16 billion dollars, is completely inconsequential to me. I don’t see anything of either
Did you drive anywhere on a road today? If so you’ve already been given more from public spending than you will ever get from Coca Cola.
Government money does a lot of really important things. If you want those things to better reflect your priorities then you need to get more involved in the process (especially at the municipal level, where you will see the most direct impact from government spending).
No doubt that it does. However, pretending like the world would be a perfect place if those darn corporations would just pay all their taxes is foolish.
No one did. You just invented that in your head so you could get mad about it.
Making giant corporations pay their taxes is one tiny piece of a very large puzzle. But you need every piece to finish a puzzle.
Said the defeatist
