Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:afc From: afc@pucc-i (Greg Flint) Newsgroups: net.misc.coke Subject: The fight is NOT over! Message-ID: <1073@pucc-i> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 11:56:43 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-i.1073 Posted: Tue Jul 16 11:56:43 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 04:21:12 EDT Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 34 Okay, everyone knows that Classic Coke is returning. Great! BUT! To where will it return? Supermarkets? Sure, most have plenty of shelf space. Fountain outlets (e.g., McDonalds)? Maybe, but only if we push for it. Most fountain machines have only 4 taps (Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, and Orange/Root Beer - or some similar setup). Where will Classic Coke go? Probably not in a 4-tap outlet. Vending machines (the most important source)? Again, maybe. Some of the old vending machines have only 4 choices. Other have 6, 8 or more, but still it may not be enough. With the addition of Classic Coke and Cherry Coke to the present lineup of New Coke, Diet Coke, Tab, Mellow Yellow, Sprite, Diet Sprite and the various decaf versions, something has to be left out. In all the reports that I have heard/read, the Coke company says that New Coke will still be the flagship version and that Classic Coke will be just another drink, competing for space with the various other Coke company products. So a battle has been won, BUT NOT THE WAR. We need to keep the pressure on the company, its bottlers, the merchants and vendors to insure that Classic Coke doesn't just fade away ("Out of sight, out of mind"). Greg Flint UUCP: { hplabs | ucbvax } !purdue!pucc-i!afc { hplabs | ucbvax } !purdue!gdf { decvax | ihnp4 } !pur-ee!gdf ARPA: afc@purdue-asc.arpa -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Consider appropriate disclaimers to have appeared here.