Posts Tagged ‘Pepsi’
Friday, October 26th, 2012
First came Coke, all the way from Mexico, all the way back in aught-six. (You see, they use sugar as the sweetener south of the border, you know, instead of corn syrup.)
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Then came the 12 oz. Coke in a Coke Bottle purveyors, like this lovely Hayes Valley Taco Model from the Gap:
And then came the Mexican Pepsi at the Costco:
But now comes the King of Them All, El Medio Litro, the half-litre of Mexican Coke in a bottle:
I only saw one case at Costco #144 in SoMA, just recently.
I don’t know what they go for, probably something betwixt $18-24 for 24.
Who knows what Mexican-made beverage Costco will offer next…
Tags: 12 oz, 2011, 2012, 500 ml, 500ml, bay area, bottle, california, cap, Coke, coke bottle, gap, half liter, hecho en mexico, Importacion Especial, medio litro, mexican, mexican pepsi, mexico, new, old, Pepsi, San Francisco, shape, sugar, taco, taco model
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
Isn’t it beautiful?
All your favorite brands are here:
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(And guess who owns the building in the background: Robert Redford / Sundance!)
Of course the National Dollar used to advertise Everything $1 or Less but there came a time when that wasn’t actually true, so City Attorney Dennis Herrera got after them.
So now the sign says “Everything ___ or Less.”
Hurray!
(Bonus: National Dollar Sidewalk Bling)
Tags: 1.25, 1633 fillmore, 2010, 2012, arm, art, bay area, c&h, california, city attorney, Coca Cola, Coke, commercial, dennis herrera, dollar, fillmore, folk, geary, hammer, hunt's, inflation, kern's, mural, national dollar, pacific heights, painting, Pepsi, robert redford, San Francisco, store, street, sundance, western addition
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
No Coke, Pepsi.
It was hecho’ed in Mexico but it’s available in the 415 now:
Ah, here’s your Mexican Coke, but it’s been readily available at the Costco for four-plus years now.
It’s all Pepsi these days…
Tags: 12 oz, 2011, bay area, bottle, california, cap, Coke, hecho en mexico, Importacion Especial, mexican, mexican pepsi, mexico, Pepsi, San Francisco, sugar
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Back in the day, back in 1985, Costco used to sell you a hot dog and a can of cola for $1.50.
These days, it’s the same deal, excepting that the dog is bigger and better and you get more soda and you get free refills.
See?
The price for this combo deal might go up at some point, but current CEO Jim Sinegal says he’ll be dead before that happens.
Excelsior, ever upward!
Tags: 1985, 2010, bay area, california, CEO, Coke, costco, deal, golden gate park, hot dog, inflation, Jim Sinegal, Pepsi, refills, San Francisco
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
You know what Pepsi is doing with all the money it didn’t spend on Super Bowl ads last month? They’re giving it away at RefreshEverything.com, the Pepsi Refresh Project. (Whether this marketing concept works out or not, it’ll be a case for the textbooks irregardless.)
Click here to see how it all works. Basically, you and/or your organization should come up with an idea that needs $5,000-$250,000 worth of seed money (something like “replace the roof on our school’s greenhouse) and then post it at the Pepsi website. If online voters think your idea is worthy, then ka-ching, baby, you’re financed.
The process cycles through each month, so I’m thinking it behooves you to submit your ap just after midnight on the first of the month. (When Pepsi gets too many ideas, they’ll tell you to try again next month.) Get cracking.
Last Saturday, Fonzworth Bentley (P Diddy’s former valet, a while back) and some others came to San Francisco to promote this project by hosting a Pepsi Idea Seminar – you know, for kids. Note that Fonzworth’s pants are NOT orange, they’re tangerine. There’s a difference, you know:
Oh, and guess what, former Coca Cola woman Majora Carter is working on this project. Remember that whole Olympic torch fiasco back in ought-eight when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and former Police Chief Heather Fong forgot who they were working for and unnecessarily kowtowed to China in a big way? Well, I’m sure Majora does.
Anyway, choose or lose, vote or die - rummage around the website and see if you think it’s worth your time. Your choice.
Hill Harper, left, Mike Posner, center, and Fonzworth Bentley, right (Tony Avelar/AP Images for Pepsi):
And here’s what Hill had to say to the kids:
“When I got a call about the Pepsi Refresh Project I thought about all the people who have ideas but don’t have the tools to build them. This project is about taking the ideas you can think of and making them happen… Everyone in the SF design atrium today has goals and dreams. What’s the journey to get there? People think they need the hook up, to win the lotto, to be the right place at right time — rather than having the right plan and coalescing resources to make it happen. Fear is false evidence appearing real. Courage to overcome fear comes from your heart. What are you passionate about? We have an intuition of what our heart says we should do but our mind tells us otherwise. What in your life have you not done that you’ve been putting off, but you’re heart is saying to do.
(Call and response with students):
I will act with courage.
I will use my heart to make decisions.
I will not allow fear to stop me.”
All the deets after the jump.
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Tags: 2010, actor, Angela Cobb, Ben Goldhirsh, Beverages, Bob Forrester, Coca Cola, Coke, cola, community, Divine Bradley, DoSomething.org, Eric Steuer, everything, Fonzworth Bentley, From G’s to Gents”, Grant, Hill Harper, Idea, J Records, kids, Majora Carter, Maria Teresa Kumar, marketing, Michael Brown, Mike Posner, Motivational, Nancy Lublin, Neil Nicoll, North America, Olympics, Pepsi, Pepsi Idea Seminar, Pepsi Refresh, Pepsi Refresh Project, Pepsi-Cola, Premal Shah, project, Recording Artist, refreah everything, Refresh, Reid Hoffman, Rosanne Haggerty, San Francisco, seed money, soda, speaker
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
So fine, Pepsi has their new logos out, but what’s up with this rooftop exclamation point dressed in uniform. Is this a real person? Doesn’t look that way, but you can never be sure.
Keep an eye out for it when you’re on the Embarcadero near Mission looking south.
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Tags: ad, advertisement, banner, billboard, Coke, cola, Embarcadero, Pepsi, pop, roof, soda, soda pop, soldier, yellow
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
The correct answer is that, like many choices you may agonize over, it doesn’t matter.
Some people might get upset about it, but you know better. We’ll just have to hope for something exciting to happen, like the return of Pepsi Ice Cucumber. Now that’d be something!
Tags: cola, ice cucumber, logo, new, Pepsi, smile, soda
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
So here’s what you get when you throw down for Parmesan Cheese Pasta Roni. After you take out the all-important but pretty small natural flavoring packet, you’re left with what you see below. Is this what they call “slack fill,” or “the difference between the actual capacity of a container and the volume of product contained therein“?
You make the call.
California Business And Professions Code BPC Section 12606 has a few things to say about these matters.
If somebody looked into this situation, could that lead to what they call a nuisance lawsuit? We’ll just have to wonder about that.
Imagine what the “Roni” people or the folks at Quaker, a unit of PepsiCo Beverages & Foods, would have to say about this.
Things can get a little complicated when you’re packing up the angel hair. Life was so much simpler back in the day, when the DeDomenico family started up the San Francisco Treat down in the Mission.
Anyway, couldn’t these pasta boxes be a little smaller?
Tags: california, DeDomenico, mission, oats, pasta roni, Pepsi, pepsico, quaker, rice-a-roni, San Francisco, slack fill, treat
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Gavin Newsom, America’s “most stylin’” mayor, has deservedly gotten lots of national attention for leading the charge against the bottled water industry. Take a look here at a scene from last month in San Francisco - he was somewhere inside this scrum of media and tap water fans. He’s got a tiger by the tail with this popular issue, much to the chagrin of industry giants Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Nestle.
But what started this campaign? It was a conversation a while back the mayor had about his possession of some bottles of Fiji Water. Somebody pointed out a few things about the pros and cons (mostly the cons) of shipping drinking water from the South Pacific to San Francisco. The result is that he is an international leader on this issue.
Fair enough. But now it appears that Fiji Water is leading the campaign FOR bottle water. They’re attacking the anti-bottled water movement at an RSS 2.0-enabled website called FijiGreen. (They’ve just boosted the ad budget so you might be hearing more from them soon.)
First of all: FijiGreen!?! WTF? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Having dispensed with that, check out this blog entry written by ”Fiji Green Gal” where she attempts to debunk the “food miles” myth. As you can see, she’s got her hands full when she doggedly replies to commenters.
You’re on your own after that. It’s up to you to make your own decision about how some people in the Republic of the Fiji Islands might benefit from Fiji Water bottling, about how some chefs just seem to love the stuff, about how they have an SVP working on these issues, etc. You might end up with a nuanced view or you might get so interested you’ll take the TreeHugger Survey.
Add it all up and see how all this compares with turning on the faucet when you’re thirsty or bottling your own tap water for those times when you’re on the go.
Tags: aquafina, bottle, Coca Cola, Coke, Dasani, fiji, fiji green gal, Fiji Water, fijigreen, Food and Water Watch, Gavin, greenwashing, International Bottled Water Association, Mayor, National Water Quality Advisory Council, Nestle, Newsom, Pepsi, pledge, Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, SFPUC, stainless steel, Take Back the Tap, tap water, United Nations, Water Quality Protection Plan, World Water Day
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Part of this crowd, a large crowd actually, at the San Francisco Ferry Building yesterday was there to get their very own free stainless steel vacuum flask to carry around tap water as an alternative to buying water in plastic bottles.
These were handed out for free:
Doesn’t everyone heart S.F.? How about the tap water you get in S.F. and some sourrounding areas? It comes from the Yosemite area, takes a rest around here, and then comes into your kitchen. It’s the best tap water in the world. So what’s wrong with drinking it instead of Dasani or Aquafina or whatever?
In 2007, Mayor Newsom famously worked on getting municipal workers off of the plastic water bottle. That move generated a little blowback but it also attracted some national interest.
In 2008, attention turns to restaurants routinely offering bottled water to patrons. It didn’t used to be this way, but nowadays it’s the first choice you have to make at some joints and some diners might feel that they’re being a bit cheap if they don’t spring for the spring water. What the Mayor is doing is using a little moral suasion to affect public behavior for the greater good. It’s not really “greenwashing,” actually. What it is is a perfectly appropriate use of the bully pulpit, as it doesn’t force anybody to do anything and it doesn’t cost the taxpayers any substantial amount of money.
Of course the bottled water industry thinks yesterday’s effort smacks of totalitarianism.
Stainless steel bottles are available while supplies last at SFPUC Customer Service at 1155 Market Street near Civic Center. Take a pledge to stop buying plastic bottles of water and you can get a nice metal bottle as well. Just drop on by. Who knows, you might get lucky.
Tags: aquafina, bottle, Carbon Footprint, Chez Panisse, climate change, Coca Cola, Coke, Dasani, Delfina, fiji, fiji green, fiji green gal, fijigreen, Food and Water Watch, Gavin, green, Incanto, International Bottled Water Association, Mayor, National Water Quality Advisory Council, Nestle, Newsom, NOPA, Packaging, Pepsi, pledge, Poggio, Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, SFPUC, stainless steel, Take Back the Tap, tap water, Transparency, United Nations, water, Water Quality Protection Plan, World Water Day
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