Pepsico article

[Poplady1]

Here is an interesting article concerning the state of our industry worldwide.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100316/ap_on_bi_ge/us_schools_soft_drinks

Blue Moose

[mxer518]

I think kids should drink all the sugar soda they want! let me tell you this, by not selling sugar soda in the schools its just going to make the kids bring it from home; most likely in the 2 liter bottle. for the sake of the industry at large all this stuff in the media and government is about being healthy really hurts!

[qualityvs]

Very true statement mxer518

[coinvestor]

They will all have to stop at antonio's "vending island" on the way to and from school:)

[vendnoob]

They did'nt even have pop machines when I was in school. I was'nt even aloud to have pop when I was a kid.

[snack dude]

Let me see if I got this right

We do away with P.E. ( Which I had to take 3 times a week) But you cant do that now because you will damage the self asteem of some slow running kid

We put soft drink machines in to raise money

And we got overweight kids who cant walk down the hall.

Go figuare

[mission vending]

It's a sign of the times. The sugar Nazi's have taken over the world. As an industry we need to adapt, whether we like it or not (I don't).  Those that figure out how to work in this new paradigm will ultimately be the survivors. (That whole Darwin and survival of the fittest thing)

Do a Google search for "healthy vending" and look around a bit, maybe you will find something that will be useful for your business.