In 1983, an 11 year-old sent a Coke bottle into the ocean, only to be found a few hundred miles away decades later. Sounds like this will someday be a commercial.
Remember the soda Surge? Well whether you do or not, it is making a comeback thanks to the voice of social media. The group calling themselves “Surge Movement,” consisting of about 128,000 members, pushed Coca-Cola to revive the drink after the soda company dumped it back in 2002.
Do you drink soda? If your answer is no, you’re not alone. U.S. soda sales are down. In 2013 sales of carbonated beverages fell by about 3%. There were more modest declines in 2011 and 2012 as well.
For a few weeks now I’ve been half complaining and half joking about there being no 'Santa Cokes' on store shelves this year. I guess I haven’t been very observant; Coca Cola pulled Santa off of packaging in 2005.