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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on March 11, 2013, 09:32:05 AM
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Yay Starbucks! Hell, I might even go there once or twice over this!
One Day Left: NYC Super-Sized Sugary Drink Ban Goes Into Effect Tuesday
Starbucks To Continue Serving Venti-Sized Drinks, Despite Regulation
March 11, 2013 8:52 AM
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Monday is the last day New Yorkers will be able to buy super-sized sugary drinks in New York City.
The cola crackdown goes into effect on Tuesday. The new regulation puts a 16-ounce limit on sugary drinks sold at city restaurants, movie theaters, sports venues and street carts and applies to both bottled and fountain drinks.
The ban but does not include grocery or convenience stores that don’t serve prepared food. It also does not apply to diet soda, other calorie-free drinks or anything that has at least 50 percent milk or milk substitute.
Restaurants, street carts, coffee joints and other venues spent the weekend getting ready for the upcoming clampdown.
“I definitely believe it’s going to hurt my business,†said Mary Cira of Pronto Pizza, who said she had to toss nearly a $1,000 worth of 20 ounce and 2 liter bottles of soda. She’ll also have to reprint her menus.
Go further down to see just how they're evading the ban: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/03/11/last-day-for-new-yorkers-to-buy-super-sized-sugary-drinks-in-nyc/
**** Bloomberg. :rant: :mad:
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Do you know what is crazy about the ordinance or whatever it is called.
Some companies like 7 Eleven are actually exempt therefore favoring big business.
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Bloomberg is an asshole!!! Noone has the right to tell you what to eat or drink or how much. New Yorkers, if they were smart, would stand up to this bully and boycott the ban!!
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Michael Bloomberg=Statist
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Ya know what? I don't care. Screw New Yorkers. They knew what they were getting, and they voted for him.
THREE FRIGGIN TIMES.
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Ya know what? I don't care. Screw New Yorkers. They knew what they were getting, and they voted for him.
THREE FRIGGIN TIMES.
He is the Mayor of New York city right?
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He is the Mayor of New York city right?
And a political whore of the worst order. While he did build his empire up from pretty much nothing, he was a lifelong Dem who became a Republican (RINO, that is) only so that he'd have a chance of making it past the primaries and into the general, where he'd follow up post-9/11 Rudy. He then becomes an "independent" after his second term so the City Council can bypass the two-term limit rule.
As I said, whore of the worst order. And the worst part is, they'll name an airport or some shit after him when he kicks.
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Starbucks is exempt from the ban due to the milk content of their drinks. It doesn't appear that they are fighting it.
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Bloomberg is right, they won't get much push-back on the issue. IF the store owners simply got together and said no it might be a different story all together.
Until they start resisting that kind of crap it is just going to build on them.
KC
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Bloomberg is right, they won't get much push-back on the issue. IF the store owners simply got together and said no it might be a different story all together.
Until they start resisting that kind of crap it is just going to build on them.
KC
Why WOULD they push back? A bodega makes a lot more money selling a 16-oz bottle of Coke versus a 2-liter bottle. Ditto a movie theater or what have you.
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Half of New Yorkers think the ban is a good idea. Sounds like Bloomberg is preaching to the moonbat choir up there.
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Half of New Yorkers think the ban is a good idea. Sounds like Bloomberg is preaching to the moonbat choir up there.
Trust me, talk to a New Yorker sometime. And I thought LA was Moonbat Central.
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Why WOULD they push back? A bodega makes a lot more money selling a 16-oz bottle of Coke versus a 2-liter bottle. Ditto a movie theater or what have you.
I don't know that that is true when it comes to drink sizes in cups. Hell, if that were true why sell them at all? The market would settle it out.
KC
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Reuters Top News @Reuters
Judge invalidates New York City's ban on large sugary drinks; ban had been scheduled to take effect tomorrow. #breaking
7:14 PM - 11 Mar 13
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Heh.
NY judge halts Bloomberg ban on large sugary drinks (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/11/ny-judge-halts-bloomberg-ban-on-large-sugary-drinks/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn)
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Heh.
NY judge halts Bloomberg ban on large sugary drinks (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/11/ny-judge-halts-bloomberg-ban-on-large-sugary-drinks/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn)
Now if we could get a judge to do this on the gun laws. I am enjoying that Bloomberg has been stopped for now.
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I don't know that that is true when it comes to drink sizes in cups. Hell, if that were true why sell them at all? The market would settle it out.
KC
In a free market, the market would decide.
The profit on smaller drinks is greater than larger drinks. If Jorge sells 16 ounce sodas for $2, and 32 ounce sodas for $3, the additional 16 ounces of soda is worth $1. If he sells two 16 ounce sodas instead, he makes $2 on the additional 16 ounces of soda. (Deliberately not figuring per-ounce cost of the soda and per-cup cost, since this is just a fun conversation).
If I had a bodega, I'd sell "Bloomberg Specials", two 16 ouncers for the price of one.
:cheers1:
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In a free market, the market would decide.
The profit on smaller drinks is greater than larger drinks. If Jorge sells 16 ounce sodas for $2, and 32 ounce sodas for $3, the additional 16 ounces of soda is worth $1. If he sells two 16 ounce sodas instead, he makes $2 on the additional 16 ounces of soda. (Deliberately not figuring per-ounce cost of the soda and per-cup cost, since this is just a fun conversation).
If I had a bodega, I'd sell "Bloomberg Specials", two 16 ouncers for the price of one.
:cheers1:
that's because you are so smaht!!! :-)
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Heh.
NY judge halts Bloomberg ban on large sugary drinks (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/11/ny-judge-halts-bloomberg-ban-on-large-sugary-drinks/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn)
GOOD! Bloomberg is an evil Marry Poppins.
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GOOD! Bloomberg is an evil Marry Poppins.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. – C. S. Lewis
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In a free market, the market would decide.
The profit on smaller drinks is greater than larger drinks. If Jorge sells 16 ounce sodas for $2, and 32 ounce sodas for $3, the additional 16 ounces of soda is worth $1. If he sells two 16 ounce sodas instead, he makes $2 on the additional 16 ounces of soda. (Deliberately not figuring per-ounce cost of the soda and per-cup cost, since this is just a fun conversation).
If I had a bodega, I'd sell "Bloomberg Specials", two 16 ouncers for the price of one.
:cheers1:
Why not just give away 32 oz. cups. If the customer decides to pour both of their 16 oz. drinks into it it's not your fault.
KC
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Why not just give away 32 oz. cups. If the customer decides to pour both of their 16 oz. drinks into it it's not your fault.
KC
I'm not a soda drinker, but don't those large drinks go flat?
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. – C. S. Lewis
WHOA! I was just referring to him being a nanny stater, is all.
I'm not a soda drinker, but don't those large drinks go flat?
Not if you drink 'em like I do. :shucks:
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I'm not a soda drinker, but don't those large drinks go flat?
I don't know. I don't drink soda either .... unless it has some whiskey in it and no, it doesn't go flat! :-)
KC
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I'll drink a couple-three diet Pepsi's every week. Okay, maybe four. :evillaugh:
I don't mix 'em with anything, but it does take awhile for them to go flat. Overnight, anyway. At room temperature, maybe a little quicker.
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Why not just give away 32 oz. cups. If the customer decides to pour both of their 16 oz. drinks into it it's not your fault.
KC
That would work, too, but then you'd have 3 cups per 32 ounce soda sale, instead of one (for the 32 oz size) or two (for the Bloomberg Special- 2 16 ouncers).
It would increase overhead.
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Judge struck it down.
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“I definitely believe it’s going to hurt my business,†said Mary Cira of Pronto Pizza, who said she had to toss nearly a $1,000 worth of 20 ounce and 2 liter bottles of soda. She’ll also have to reprint her menus.
Now that there's an injunction against the king's edict this woman and everyone similarly situated should level a class-action suit against the city to recoup lost monies, plus fees.
Make the ****ing pigs squeal.