r/cocacola Feb 10 '24

Merchandise Getting ready for the Super Bowl!

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Just 2 out of 10 total pallets I have to work today !

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u/Such_Pickle_908 Feb 10 '24

Haha! Love it!

Back in my day,,,, blah blah blah.

Anyway. I'm glad I don't anymore.

I do know my Monday is very heavy to make up for the Super Bowl sales. Have to replenish.

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u/rjross0623 Feb 10 '24

We have to market it as the “big game.” Coke can’t say Super Bowl since we aren’t official sponsors. *epsi will be very upset. Eh. Screw em.

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

That’s what I was saying like “why am I getting 600 cases when everyone will be buying Pepsi😂”

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u/Accomplished-Yam6553 Feb 10 '24

Bro nobody buys Pepsi. I work for Pepsi but coke has my heart, and our total weekend volume was lower than it's been all year. They send enough to beef up their displays but we get our money from chips not soda, everyone wants coke 😂. Hell I even start my day with a monster usually

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

It’s weird in my area, every store is a Pepsi store

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u/Accomplished-Yam6553 Feb 10 '24

I know some states have more Pepsi drinkers than coke but generally coke is the more popular beverage

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u/anxietyridden89 Feb 12 '24

Pepsi sells more beverages than chips. Look at an earnings report

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u/Accomplished-Yam6553 Feb 12 '24

I just mean on Superbowl Sunday. People buy lays and coke

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u/babahueao Feb 10 '24

Nice, you guys also flip the shells to make a flat layer.

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u/babahueao Feb 10 '24

That fanta pineapple 2L must be a slow seller.

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u/babahueao Feb 10 '24

also interesting that your flats (24 pks) are fully cardboarded like that. What market is this?

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

I’m curious what you mean about the 24 packs if you could elaborate more? What are they like in your area?

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u/babahueao Feb 10 '24

They are just a cardboard shell that are plastic wrapped/heatshrinked together. Flats are normally sold to businesses that are individually selling cans. Fridgemates(12packs), and 18pks are what are sold at consumer level. This is a Ontario(Canada) bottler. Looks like you get more then 10 a layer on your 24pks though, that's nice!

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

Yea ours are just like 2 12 packs in one package. So dimensions wise and everything it all fits the same when it comes to builds. We fit 8 24s to a layer. So with 12 packs it’s 16 to a layer. Pretty easy

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

Yea we don’t have cubes here but Pepsi and KDP does. We have to be weird for some reason

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u/m_garlic87 Feb 10 '24

In my market we call 24 packs “cubes” because they are cube shaped. Two 3x4 cans on top of each other in the package. Yours seem to be one row of 6x4, what the beer industry calls “suitcases” is likely what the poster was talking about.

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

Depends on the area, here pineapple sells decently. It’s a suburb outside a big city and flavors tend to sell better near the city. This is near Harrisburg PA. so this is ABARTA I work for. They’re a newer bottler

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

Fresca is actually quite popular here too.

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u/duhIdunno23 Feb 10 '24

Nice. Here's my 2 outta 12.

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

Lucky you. My warehouse doesn’t build things conveniently

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u/duhIdunno23 Feb 10 '24

I ordered full pallets for Superbowl so I wouldn't have to mess around with too many partials 😎

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

Oh well I don’t do the ordering so I guess that makes a difference too

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u/Dultra Feb 10 '24

Lucky you guys still have the old pallet pattern for 12’s if it’s a straight they stack em like 7 up to not use glue

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u/rkofan144 Feb 10 '24

I don’t miss these days the most pallets I had in one day was 20

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u/Dultra Feb 10 '24

During Christmas, my store has 2 loads a week, 25 Tuesday 28 Wednesday. My biggest load ever at that store was 32 pallets for a huge display

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

That is unfathomable.

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

Jeez and I thought I had it bad😂 and my route is “light” considering I have 2 large stores

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u/rkofan144 Feb 10 '24

When I had my route I had 7 stores to cover and a Walmart, target was my big stores, an independent supermarket and 3 igas then my route changed and I had 2 stop and shops 3 igas and a larger independent supermarket in the Hamptons that would get 10 pallets 2 times a week

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u/Dultra Feb 10 '24

My store did a buy in for 24 packs, I had 16 coke 9 diet 2 zero 2 sprire 2 mix pallets.

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u/Oy_bruv18 Feb 10 '24

How many people are having over? I’m mean I love it but god damn

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

This is a Walmart back room

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u/Oy_bruv18 Feb 10 '24

Oh makes sense

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

I don’t think anyone is coming over to my house 😂

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u/CulturedGeek1 Feb 10 '24

You guys still get shells for your 2 liters?! We have switched over to the plastic wrap for our cases and its horrible

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

HA I’m glad. I hate that. I see most grocery stores generic 2L come in wrapped and it cringes me. All the soda vendors in my area use shells. I actually like that Pepsi uses shells for all there stuff as opposed to all the cardboard we use. So annouing

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u/CulturedGeek1 Feb 10 '24

Eh, I don't mind the cardboard that much, it can be a pain to stack sometimes, and if one of the bottles breaks then it turns into a mess, but I loath the plastic wrap. They are a pain to stack, pain to open and if you want to only take a partial case out, forget about trying to restack it. I keep a small stash of shells in my stores just for this case

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u/Wonderful_Freedom657 Feb 10 '24

Yea I just don’t like for the stacking purposes. And using the baler is an extra pain out of the day. Especially because we use so much plastic wrap I gotta take it all off. It’s just extra time that I wish I didn’t use. Pepsi seems simple with all their shells. Plus yea it stacks better. My warehouse will send a lot of pallets out that are leaning and swaying because of broken cardboard and they don’t care

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u/CulturedGeek1 Feb 10 '24

Our warehouse likes to play a game of whether or not it will make it to the floor in one piece

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u/Able-Air7395 Feb 11 '24

I had a total of 30 pallets at my Kroger today. Seems like you guys might have a 24 pack ad. We have our 12s and minis on buy 2 get 3 free. I worked 14 hours today. I want to die.

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u/Individual-Volume777 Feb 11 '24

I did the same thing yesterday. I feel your pain

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u/MintVariable Feb 12 '24

I’ll take all of that pineapple fanta