r/Anticonsumption • u/RainyDay905 • 20d ago

Corporations Time to ditch Poppi

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Poppi is now owned by a mega corporation. The quality is probably going to go down. Time to ditch it.

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u/EngineerDirector 20d ago

These are $2.50 a can, I ain’t buying regardless of who owns them.

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u/disposable_account01 20d ago

Reddit: “I don’t like everything being owned by big conglomerates!”

Also Reddit: “I ain’t paying that much for a ding dang soda! Why can you, a small startup, make soda as cheaply as those conglomerates who benefit from orders of magnitude more economies of scale and who also use HFCS instead of sugar and who outsource canning to third world countries that pay slave wages and violate human rights and have unsafe working conditions!!1!!!1!1one!”

As a small food manufacturer, I can unflinchingly say, none of you complaining about price can also complain about everything being sold to conglomerates.

I can almost guarantee you that Poppi has less than 30% margin, and that PepsiCo bought them to acquire their customers and that they will gradually enshittify the product as shareholders demand they squeeze out more margin.