Table gaming comes to WV

Local sheriff is arrested for DUI and admits on dashcam that he lets DUI drivers free in "His" County

and now PEPSI and COKE are goin at it.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the fires of hell are stoked and the Ohio Valley is going to be the coming of armageddon.

Pepsi paid more, their drivers only unloaded, and had electric pallet jacks, and had their own merchandisers to come load the shelves.

Coke paid less and drivers unloaded by hand, and merchandised the product themselves.

Also Pepsi's sales people, drivers and merchandisers were often much nicer, more personable, and often gave us freebies... so we also were nicer to them at the loading dock, lol

The Coke/ Pepsi vendors at my old job used to help each other stock their product. I always tried to talk them in to fighting though just so I could have some epic pictures.

This is why I love corporate rivalries. Cola wars or console wars, entertainment is guaranteed.

@Buran: If you have a place like Central Market close by it should be available. They used to only make Dublin Dr. Pepper on Tuesdays but last I heard they were considering expanding due to the overwhelming demand. There is simply nothing like the original recipe for Dr. Pepper...

Now...if I can just find some Good and Fruity candy to go with it I would be in heaven (they don't make it anymore :-( and Good and Plenty sucks beyond all that is hellish)

Oh, yah, and Coke Zero is the nectar of the gods. The Coke taste, not as sweet, and no impact on my diet. Coke Zero FTW!

Root Beer, OTOH, is the only thing I will have with my vanilla ice cream for a float. A&W or IBC are the best.

I heart Coke Zero! It doesn't have the weird chemical aftertaste that most diet sodas have.

Funny as heck but I do not understand why this was posted to Consumerist.

Watch, by the end of the week VH-1 will have signed those 2 up for their own reality show!

anybody else like coke zero?

@Buran: for cane sugar coke, try cosco. or a mexican supermarket. i go to the local tienda in my neighborhood for my cane coke. whoa say that phrase backwards. you could probably get that there too. lol.

I don't know why so many soda makers use that corn syrup junk. I'm hoping that as more corn is used to produce ethanol we'll see more cane sugar sodas offered. I like Dublin Dr. Pepper but can't get it in stores here - I'm going to have to order it. I can't find the cane sugar Coke for the life of me either.

Sometimes the wait staff is even able to put grenadine into Pepsi which masks the too-sweet taste and gives me cherry soda anyway, which I prefer.

I miss Benny.

disappearing comments...again :(

@INconsumer: Agreed...and Dublin Dr. Pepper is the best stuff ever. Both made with pure cane sugar... DOWN WITH CORN SYRUP!!!!

Frankly...corn syrup is likely the cause of the massive increase of cases of diabetes lately...

Such crude measures. If it were me, I'd start with the dead horse head delievered to their residence first.

nothing can compare to mexico's pure cane sugar coke!

and coke is waaaaaaay better with liquor. i mean a pepsi and crown? get real. that was my biggest pet peeve in las vegas. too many pepsi only hotels and my alcoholic drinks tasted like crap because of it. i had to buy my own crown and 20oz cokes to get buy.

I will not argue with that, but Coke is more band image than taste. Coke admitted this when they switched their flavor to a more Pepsi like flavor.

The south has a lot more tradition than in the North. People are so into the brand of Coke they call all soft drinks Coke. Its so strong they will actually ask if you want to order a Pepsi-Coke.

Also, all the generic brands of pop copy Pepsi instead of Coke for a reason.

Marketing means everything with these products. Coke's marketing is why they are so successful. During WWII Coke was America and that tradition still sticks today.

my parents always bought coke. and said pepsi was too sweet. go figure that i say the same thing now.

pepsi is waaaaaaaaaaay to sweet! it's nasty! and i would say its like anything else formed out of habit. republican parents generally have children to grow up and vote republican, not always, but usually. same for dems.

also similar to smokers. they will smoke any cig in a dire time, but usually smoke the same brand as their parents.

I drink Diet Coke, my wife Diet Pepsi. We're able to get along, primarily because if I started something like this case, she'd kick my ass.

So, to sum it up: marketing means nothing, so stop quoting a marketing ploy (the pepsi challenge) to prove your point...

@ry81984: The reason the "Pepsi Challenge" was successful for Pepsi is because Pepsi is sweeter, and 9 times out of ten, the sweeter drink will always win in a "Sip Test" (where the soda is only tasted for a short period of time, making this test not directly analogous to drinking a full 12 oz can). Personally, I find Pepsi *too* sweet, so over the course of an entire soda, I get annoyed by it - and that's why I prefer Coke.

Often product manufacturers send employees to rearrange the frontage, which the Coke/Pepsi fight may have been over, if one caught the other rearranging things. If they can rearrange the space just after Wal-mart does a reorganization, there's a good chance it will remain that way for a few weeks.

This happened all the time when I worked retail electronics sales. Product reps would stop by, give us a spiel about their product, hand us some schwag, and rearrange the shelves behind our backs.

This proves what I've known for years. Pepsi pwns Coke.

sorta reminds me of syrup

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They do not control shelf space, but that does not matter.
I work in retail, if they have extra space they will fill it up. This is not counting a display specifically for one or the other, this is shelf space where tags can be moved. They will slide competitors products over to create a little more room for their products. They do what it takes to empty their trucks.

Coke does a have a brand that people have strong emotional bonds with. It may not taste better, but the feelings, tradition, and image that come along with Coke appeal to older people more than taste.

When Coke did their own Pepsi Challenge they blindfolded hard core Coked drinkers and had them try both. The blindfolded hard core Coke drinkers would choose Pepsi. When they were not blind folded they always chose Coke.

As the soft drink market grows Pepsi is gaining way more drinkers and market share than Coke. Basically as younger people start drinking soft drinks they choose Pepsi over Coke because they value the taste over the image.

Seriously. A fistfight ... over SODA??!

Besides aren't Coke and Pepsi products usually kept separate from each other anyway? They're either on opposite sides of the aisle or generic sodas are between them.

Although the whole thing very immature, I must say I've always known Pepsi kicked ass;)

@junkmail: coke is way better than pepsi. thats why the pepsi guy got so mad he had to punch the coke guy. he was jealous at how much better coke is.

Why did they fire the Pepsi worker? He won the fight!

Do these guys get bonuses and better reviews if they unload more product?
I bet they do.

If that is the case, anyone would fight for their bonus or better reviews.

Also, that shows how stupid Pepsi and Coke are, they evaulate their employees about things that are out of their control like shelf space in a store.

What were they supposed to do, go back with a full truck and receive a punishment from their boss?

That's what I like some stiff competition. Play nice boys, have a rock fight.

Give Walmart enough space, and they test market Thunderdome...