I also think most people have no idea how much shit is owned by coke, so maybe they’re leaving coke on the shelves but buying some other brands owned by them instead? Also yeah Europeans sure love their coke zero and it’s gonna be tough getting everyone to stop, there’s probably correlation between liking coke and not giving a shit about politics.
When these companies reach certain sizes they’re almost boycott proof. Simply insane how large they’re allowed to become.
Coca Cola is owned by The Coca Cola Company, whose owner (or well, group with largest share) is Berkshire Hathaway Inc., owned by Warren Buffett (with his successor being Greg Abel). Ajit Jainil is a vice chairman, whose cousin was a co-CEO of the Deutsche Bank.
Coca Cola also sponsored Trump.
It also has insurance companies which invest in policy premiums in some companies, up to many billions. Visa, Mastercard, Kraft Heinz, T-mobile, Mitsubishi, to name a few.
Companies are evil. Every single one that’s big is one too many.
We should develop an app, downloadable from multiple app stores, to automatically scan a product and see if it’s ultimately owned by a billionnaire and where some companies don’t have workplace democracy. And the app should offer alternatives, from which you can order. Can someone on Lemmy here do it?
scan a product and see if it’s ultimately owned by a billionnaire
Unless you’re in a thrift store or flea market, the answer is yes.
I dunno, I feel like it is possible for a company to be worker-owned with workplace democracy, where the highest-earning worker earns only one and a half times as much as the lowest earning, instead of hundreds of times more.
And even then, I think wages shouldn’t be a thing at all - but instead that economies should be need-focused, rather than profit-focused.
It would be great if for example woodcutters delivered wood directly to farmers, farmers food directly to woodcutters, and truck drivers received goods directly from both, and so on.
No wages, just cooperation without monetisation.
Works at the small scale, but as you grow, so does human greed.
Would love a personalized warning list, to add companies (and automatically any owners/siblings) that flags products as I scan them.
Isnt Warren Buffet the most positive example of a billionaire by a margin?
Afaik hes donating his entire wealth to charity once he ceases and already flipped his home town Omaha into a liveable paradise comparibly to northern european city life standards.
Like the highest donating philanthropist there is
maybe Im missing alot here, please add your context
I am one of those who still gets cola zero :(
At this point I think it’s an addiction, I didn’t find something else from the EU to match it and was not successful thus far to quit it entirely.
But I’m still trying…
I do better by avoiding sodas altogether… it’s sugar in a bottle, no thanks.
My sister doesn’t give her kids cola because of the sugar. It just has slightly more than bought orange juice and aplle juice and all that shit.
It’s hard to know what’s actually owned by Coca-Cola.
Not too hard
There’s a lot more because Coca Cola owns brands that only operate within a single national market.
Is there an app for that?
A RECOMMENDATION: TURN UPSIDE DOWN IF IT’S A BAD PRODUCT.
Regional
No Thanks (Apple store) - Android store for Palestine stuff. Collects no data at all. This is the app I would first recommend. Scan product, see result.Buy Beaver - Canadian-focused initiative. Lets you pick countries to support. Collects mail address and device ID, but nothing more.
Detrumpez Vous - focused on finding whether a product is American or not.
Supranational (European)
Buy From EU - find European alternatives. Not necessarily scanning, but useful. Collects mail/sms, but that’s it.Buy European AI - lets you take a picture of the product, find European alternatives & that of allies. Anonymously collects rough location & photo (the latter makes sense though).
General
There’s Boycat, also as app, which is user-friendly, but their privacy policy states your data may be stored outside of your legal jurisdiction.Depends where you are from, but the App Store and buy Canadian turned up this. There were several of them
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/maple-scan-buy-canadian/id6741467577
Coke probably is. Not sure what else
I mostly drink some local store branded Cola that’s made by company from my country. It’s cheap as fuck and actually tastes better than any big brand cola.
Unfortunately, my local and popular soft drink company had been bought by Coca Cola years ago. They made the drink taste bad now, which is literal enshitiffication. Not much for any remaining local alternatives to buy.
Having this issue also, how not buy soft drink stands which are either owned by coca cola or PepsiCo is not as simple as it sounds
And if you’re making your own, don’t get a SodaStream because the factories are in occupied/stolen land in Palestine. DrinkMate is a better machine anyways.
They made the drink taste bad now, which is literal enshittification.
I wonder why fizzy sugary drink is now a necessity to drink.
I don’t see the same conversation around chocolate milk or pineapple juice.
People in the comments need to take a step back.
I don’t drink cola outside of parties where I drink it with (cheap) whisky (I wouldn’t ruin good whisky with cola), which I admit is still very bad for health, but at least not frequent
The only other time I’m glad to have some cola is when I have “stomache troubles” 🚽
The default drink used to be fizzy fermented grain or fruit.
It’s honestly not anything new to not be drinking water just the people doing it are less drunk now.
This could be largely because Pepsi has been expanding in the Russia and many are boycotting it for that. So, if the combined market share of those has risen, then we are not doing so badly :)
Make Tap Water Great Again
Do better Europeans. Coke snitched on their own workers to ICE.
I suppose it may be time to expand the 30% tariff retaliation to anything owned by US companies.
I think I wrote this recently elsewhere, but I just never drink nor desire soda. It just doesn’t even occur to me as a thing to want. When I was a kid, we mostly drank water. It’s kind of alienating to realize how many other people are seemingly fundamentally different on such a basic part of life like “drinking”
Same, my family weren’t soda drinkers.
My husband I stopped buying Coca-Cola. We now buy Vikos Cola, which is a local brand in Epirus, Greece.
Haven’t had a coca cola in about 10 years. I’m doing my part!
Coke free for a couple years. I’m doing my part
The saddest thing for me is that it is 90% impossible to drink gin-tonic without paying to Coca-Cola in Poland. For other 10%, the price of tonic is almost same as the price for gin :/
I’ve only bought Breizh Cola for years, and will continue to shame my friends who still buy “Nazi Cola”
