Coca- cola products shortage
By solxee
@sol_cee (38219)
Philippines
August 22, 2022 4:32am CST
It is common in my country to have a bottle of soft drinks to go with lunch or dinner, or even during snack time. I prefer Coke or Sprite or Royal True Orange but recently there is a shortage of these products. In my small store, lots of customers want to buy these soft drinks but my supplier doesn’t have any. So instead I have to offer Pepsi products. Then I saw this photo on Facebook about a Coca-cola Plant suspending their operations due to the lack of bottle grade sugar.
How about in your country? Do you have this problem?
14 people like this
15 responses
@moffittjc (121659)
• Gainesville, Florida
22 Aug 22
No shortage of Coca-Cola or other soft drinks here in my area, not a shortage of sugar. Supply seems normal as far as I can tell.
How come the sign in your photo is in English instead of your county’s native language?
1 person likes this
@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
23 Aug 22
@moffittjc good question. Maybe because English is one of the two official languages of my country. And also to aid tourists?
1 person likes this
@RebeccasFarm (90294)
• Arvada, Colorado
22 Aug 22
I have not noticed it no. I am sorry this is happening there.
1 person likes this
@RebeccasFarm (90294)
• Arvada, Colorado
23 Aug 22
@sol_cee Sure it is that Coca Cola is addicting
1 person likes this
@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
25 Aug 22
@RebeccasFarm do you drink Coca cola stuff?
1 person likes this
@DaddyEvil (137463)
• United States
22 Aug 22
During the height of the pandemic, there were shortages of the ingredients for all types of soda... Pretty was so upset when she couldn't get her preferred soft drinks... But all soft drinks are back in full production here and have been since last August, I think...
You can have all the coke products from the US you want. It's nasty stuff anyway. 
1 person likes this
@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
23 Aug 22
@DaddyEvil have you ever like disregarded the label or something?
1 person likes this
@dgobucks226 (35716)
•
17 Sep 22
No shortage of coke or other soda soft drinks in the U.S., but there seems to be a shortage of another kind of soda... baking soda. 
1 person likes this
@Butterfingers (66583)
• India
22 Aug 22
There is no such shortage in India and Pepsi is less popular in here
1 person likes this
@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
23 Aug 22
@Butterfingers like how cheap compared to Coke?
1 person likes this
@Butterfingers (66583)
• India
23 Aug 22
@sol_cee could be but in India it's less popular and cheap as compared to coke
1 person likes this
@gtdoss (1013)
• United States
23 Aug 22
I have not heard about this problem yet in the USA. Oh, I really hope it doesn't happen here, because we are definitely a Coca Cola family. Pepsi tastes like cleaning fluid to us, LOL! I wonder what Pepsi is using in their soft drinks if there isn't enough bottler's grade sugar?
1 person likes this
@Beestring (14674)
• Hong Kong
22 Aug 22
We don't seem to have this shortage here.
1 person likes this
@40yearoldlion (24)
•
22 Aug 22
Some people are happy as less softdrinks could actually be a boon to health conscious people.
But on the bigger perspective, the sugar crisis is more than just about sodas. It's the fact that the soda industry employs a lot of people can result to massive and significant job losses should soda companies close down.
Not to mention SMEs who retail sodas as an income
1 person likes this
@porwest (92463)
• United States
17 Sep 22
We have had multiple supply chain issues on many things, and many shelves for the past year or so have been empty. It seems to be getting a little better, but it is not entirely a "problem solved." Although we have not had any issues with soft drinks so far. Of course, soft drinks (most of them) made in the United States use high fructose corn syrup for regular drinks and articicial sweeteners for diet drinks, so there has not been a problem with that.
