I actually found a time-lapse video of them being stacked. It won’t work as an embedded link so I hope this works, or you can at least find it from this.
That doesn’t seem to work so if you go to Getty Images and search for 2038-233 you should find it.
That video shows something similar between the layers, but not the same as in the OP. The ones we recall rolled up as the stock was diminished (like the blow out party favors retracting). The underside had the product/company logo printed in rows so that it always showed as the divider furled/unfurled.
Damned difficult to describe.
Ok, I was mistaking the darker green across the bottom of the cartons for the roll-up advertising. Which you can find pictures of if you search for soda roll up advertising or somesuch, but I was unable to find any pictures of it in use.
Aha! “soda roll up advertising” did it! I didn’t think to add the word “advertising” to my searches, but that did the trick. Here are some pictures of one for Nu Grape soda.
Thanks, AllShookUp
You started the hijack and you were the one who kept it going. It seems like you hijack a lot of threads with your advertising/marketing hatred.
I read through all the posts. Good thoughts, but nada. I am not picturing the price tags that would pop into the shelving. If I find a picture or can draw an image, I’ll post an update. I may even read out to some grocery association (everybody has an assc.) and see if they recall.
I suggest you carefully reread post 25, and look at the photos linked to in post 64.
This.
And then you have the great freedom of voting for Trump or Hillary (unless you live in Ca, NY, Tx, etc. and your vote doesn’t really count), the freedom getting bankrupt if you are sick, the freedom of owing 200K after finishing a degree - that confers upon you the freedom of the minimum-wage employment of your choice, the freedom of not missing one day of the abovementioned employment even when you raise small kids.
Yea. But 50 brands of chips and 50 ways to kill someone with 50 different guns you may freely choose.
Oh, and many, many screens around you for reading and watching your choice of big/medium/small brothers all telling you the same thing.
Isn’t freedom great ?
I happened across this item on Etsy just now.
i can’t get a link to work.
A search on Etsy for “shelf paper cola” brigs back ones for Coke, Diet Rite and Pepsi.
Reminds me of Penn State’s football uniforms.
I remember the 8 packs of glass bottles more than any 6 packs of bottles. Cans often came in packs of 6 with plastic rings holding them together, I don’t see much of that anymore. I guess I like the current plastic 20 oz or half liters as well as anything, but I miss the 24oz bottles that disappeared several years ago (I’m looking at you, Mayor Bloomberg!).
I wish all restaurants would carry all brands. Some people definitely prefer Coke, some prefer Pepsi, if I ran a restaurant I’d carry them both so that everybody can be happy. Nothing worse than having a good meal ruined by having to drink the brand you don’t really care for.
Good thought, Bob, but the drink suppliers make that very difficult. They will offer inducements like free use of dispensing equipment or discounts on product in return for the restaurant selling their brands exclusively. Would the extra volume make up for the higher cost to the establishment? I don’t know, but tend to doubt it. If it did you’d see it more often.
I remember doing that as late as 1986/7 then the 2 liter bottles became popular because they could be sold for as little as 89 cents
Regarding flimsy bottles, I don’t recall them being flimsy at all, but I do remember we couldn’t leave unopened bottles out in the garage in winter or the pop would freeze and shatter the bottles.
Early '80s? I’m sure we had those in Iowa in the '70s, when I was still working at the supermarket…