Philadelphia Soda Tax Crushes Soft Drink Sales. What the libtards jack up must go down. Real easy to drive to another city or over to NJ to stock up on soda without paying extra. They passed this in the People’s Republik of Berkely awhile back. It’s real easy to walk across the street to Albany or Emeryville and buy your soda there for less.
Philadelphia’s six-week-old tax on sweetened beverages is already taking a toll on drink distributors and grocers, with some reporting sales drops of as much as 50 percent.
Canada Dry Delaware Valley — a local distributor of Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Sunkist, A&W Root Beer, Arizona Iced Tea and Vita Coco — said business fell 45 percent in Philadelphia in the first five weeks of 2017, compared with the same period last year. Total revenue at Brown’s Super Stores, which operates 12 ShopRite and Fresh Grocer supermarkets, fell 15 percent at its six retailers in the city.
“In 30 years of business, there’s never been a circumstance in which we’ve ever had a sales decline of any significant amount,” said Jeff Brown, chief executive officer of Brown’s Super Stores. “I would describe the impact as nothing less than devastating.”
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Unintended consequences. Hmmm. Always happens but liberal loons never learn. Hey Philly, vote for more liberals to control every aspect of your life.
Lucky me.
I am not a big soda drinker.
I live in a county outside Philadelphia. If my children or family wishes soda, I believe we can still purchase it in our county without the Philadelphia soda - sweet drink tax.
Does that tax include Mango Lasi purchased in an Indian Restaurant?
How about Chocolate Milk Shakes, or Chocolate Milk drink?
Orange Juice?
Sweet Tea (Tennessee Sweet Tea)?
What if we make our own Milk Shake, Mango Lasi, Sweet Tea, or soda?
This country has become more and more a police, big government state.
Sad, and anger inducing!
But people's health! Soft drink distributors may have to lay people off but it's for their own good. Right?
How long before Philadelphia bans assault beverages?
Looks like it's time to rent a truck, and drive around Philly selling black market soda's out the back..
It is impossible to explain to a Progressive that raising tax rates usually results in reducing tax revenues.
Yes. Progressives are economic retards.
Yes. Progressives are retards.
There, I fixed it for you.