So if I'm understanding this correctly, there are three reasons for the bump in sales:
1) People can't afford the treats they otherwise would be buying, so they're getting the cheaper option of a $2 one liter.
2) People are drinking less alcohol (because of the price?) and moving to drinks made of soda + some other ingredients (pickle juice and Tabasco, for example).
3) Social media influencers are pushing soda as a "mindfulness" break or a low-vice reward.
I drank a ton of soda when I was a teenager. I got a job at 15, and realized that we lived close enough to a grocery store that I could easily walk there, so I would buy several two liters of soda, a few bags of chips, and then I would stay up until 3 AM playing Age of Empires 2 or Red Alert 2.
I put on 60 pounds doing that over three years and I've never been able to shed it.
I cut out soda for my twenties, but I have started drinking ginger ales again because I used to have a cup of coffee at 3 PM to help with the afternoon slump, but I wasn't sleeping well. It's not a hard choice, even knowing how bad this pure sugar water is for you. Stressed, overworked, exhausted, your body craves quickly available energy. People need a vice.
But I still hate that I'm drinking them, and I still blame soda companies for the weight gain.
It's a general downard trend of alcohol intake mostly brought on by younger generations. I joke about how alcohol companies should have invested in urban development and walkability to keep people drinking, but it's probably just that alcohol sucks and there are other legal ways to have fun that don't involve the nasty side effects. Of course the financial component probably plays into it as well.
The afternoon slump is probably coming from eating too many carbs at lunch. Try addressing that and you might not need the sugar boost at 3. Or switch to unprocessed fruit for that boost instead.
I thought this was about soda water, so I though, interesting, I wonder why, some health benefits? But for sugared or otherwise sweetened soda to make a comeback is disappointing...
I drank a ton of soda when I was a teenager. I got a job at 15, and realized that we lived close enough to a grocery store that I could easily walk there, so I would buy several two liters of soda, a few bags of chips, and then I would stay up until 3 AM playing Age of Empires 2 or Red Alert 2.
I put on 60 pounds doing that over three years and I've never been able to shed it.
I cut out soda for my twenties, but I have started drinking ginger ales again because I used to have a cup of coffee at 3 PM to help with the afternoon slump, but I wasn't sleeping well. It's not a hard choice, even knowing how bad this pure sugar water is for you. Stressed, overworked, exhausted, your body craves quickly available energy. People need a vice.
But I still hate that I'm drinking them, and I still blame soda companies for the weight gain.