Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Decades ago, both Coca-Cola and PepsiCo assumed that because both were terrific at selling soda, they should be able to transfer that ability to other consumer products. This is one of corporate America's great fallacies...
...wipe the perpetual smile of Ronald McDonald's face, a 19-year-old employee of the burger joint was arrested today for selling marijuana in Happy Meals. Mence Powell, who manned the restaurant's drive-through window, was taken into custody after selling undercover officers a burger, fries, soda and a side of weed on five separate occasions. Police said Powell pulled the scam by arranging deals in advance. After an order was placed, customers would then head to the drive-through window to complete the transaction. "I don't know how he could think that he could do this...
...with [dues] is that I wouldn't feel it's very good if [residents] don't take advantage of the activities the House Committee puts on," says deRoberts. "I wouldn't feel comfortable asking people to put money in." All houses receive a portion of the profits earned from soda machines, laundry machines, snack machines and video games in the houses. However, most of the houses also rely on other sources of income for fundraising...
...that's "smile" plus "milk"), a nonfat milk in seven fruit flavors targeted at school-age kids. An 8-oz. serving of Grinnin' Grape or VeryVery Strawberry offers the nutritional benefits of regular milk and no fat. The downside: 24 g of sugar, on par with a can of soda. Introduced this summer, Smilk is being sold by 300 Wal-Mart superstores as well as in schools in several districts in Michigan. Says Gensamer: "This could be a billion-dollar business." (No doubt naysayers scoffed at the idea of diet peach iced tea too.) Similar products, such as Moo Kooler...
...pursue a potentially larger case against ADM for fixing prices in the market for high-fructose corn syrup, a ubiquitous soft-drink sweetener. This $4 billion industry is nearly four times the size of citric acid, and some consumer advocates have charged that shoppers pay higher prices for soda because of ADM's practices...