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Ritchie cola, from Belgium (i.postimg.cc)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm curious about cola:

In all the countries I've lived in, I've always bought store-brand colas - mostly to avoid giving any of my money to Pepsi and Coca-Cola, but also because they're usually a lot cheaper. Most store-brand colas were denominated in the local language.

I always assumed they were made locally because... well, cola is just water with sugar really. But are they? I doubt Cola from Aldi in Germany or K-Market in Finland are made in China or the US, but in fact I don't know. Does anybody know?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They all have local bottling plants, including Coca Cola.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I guess what I meant was: when I buy a local store-brand cola, does my money go to a company in the same country and contribute to local jobs, or does it make disgusting multinational agro businesses even richer?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I guess it depends on the chain. If it's an international chain profits would most likely go overseas. Best to just buy whatever you can from local small businesses, no point in swapping American multinational corporations with European ones.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The Finnish K-Market's store brand cola is made in Finland by a Finnish company

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Most of the store brands are cheap because they aren't having to pay a large multinational for the privilege of making what is a pretty simple product for them.

As the humus contamination incident in the UK revealed, most of the supermarket own brands are often all made in the same place by a local firm who can keep the margins low.