New soda at Costco. Same $1.50 dog?

Costco is cutting Pepsi from its food court fountain lineup and replacing it with Coca-Cola in a nationwide switch already underway CEO Ron Vachris first stated the move at Costco s annual shareholder meeting back in January Coca-Cola established the rollout will reach all U S warehouses by fall according to a report to Fox Business The Costco fountain drink carrier is responsible not just for the soda machines and drink syrups but also the cups lids and straws offered in the food court of the warehouse giant So how should Costco fans feel cheered confused or just carbonated Related Costco confirms that it will no longer serve Pepsi products at its food courts In the U S Coca-Cola dominates the soft drink sphere with a share double Pepsi s so Costco may just be giving the people what they want But they had a pretty good reason for using Pepsi in the first place the hot dog and soda combo meal Costco sold million of the hot-dog combo meals last year The price has been the same since the combo was introduced in and is sacred to a large number of Costco fans In Pepsi beat out Coca-Cola to take over the fountain drink contract at Costco food courts At the time Costco executives stated the switch to Pepsi was necessary to maintain the price of the hot dog combo according to CNN So the question now is Will Costco be raising the price of the hot-dog meal As Costco co-founder Jim Senigal once revealed If you raise the effing hot dog I will kill you Figure it out Die-hard Costco fans might revolt if that happens They in fact did when rumours first spread of a expected hot dog price increase in and the MAGA funnels that were promoting this untrue story tried to blame it on Joe Biden Meanwhile Coca-Cola s sugar sourcing is making headlines of its own After a very society and awkward miscommunication about U S cane sugar in Coca-Cola products the company informed that it will be releasing a new beverage line made with U S cane sugar this fall They still rejected President Trump s earlier contends that Coca-Cola agreed to switch to cane sugar in all their products While the U S does grow a large amount of sugarcane domestically more than million tons need to be imported every year to keep up with consumer demand and the Trump Tariffs have been wreaking havoc on a very delicate sugar bargain ecosystem The U S has never been self-sufficient for sugar production so it s hard to imagine that we ll magically be able to generate enough sugar for these changes if the foreign commerce falls apart Read more about this topic Costco just introduced a new and ginormous meatball marinara deli sandwich Like their shoppers Costco employees hate the latest crackdown on membership-card sharing Costco hikes up its membership fees predicts million memberships will be impacted The post New soda at Costco Same dog appeared first on Salon com