Store refuses to sell Pepsi products with NFL logo on them

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A gas station in Alabama said it would not sell Pepsi products with the NFL logo on it. (Google Earth images/Pepsi)



Pepsi's slogan may have once been "The Choice of a New Generation," but one grocery store owner has chosen to no longer sell its products because they feature the NFL logo.
A Facebook post from S&Z Grocery in Athens, Alabama, stated the store would not sell the products until the logo is removed.
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“This may cause me to lose some business, but here goes. S&Z supermarket currently will not be selling 20 ounce Pepsi or Diet Pepsi. These two items are currently produced with the NFL logo on them. I refuse to sell the product until the logo is removed. I will not bow down in order to make a dollar as long as the athletes are allowed to bow down and disrespect the flag and country I love,” the Facebook post stated.
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Phillip Stewart, the owner of the store, told WAFF he pulled the bottles off the shelf himself, saying it felt wrong to sell the products with the logo.
“I don’t want to support them in any way, because I feel like it’s just wrong. I can’t in good conscious sell the product because it does have the logo on it,” said Stewart.

“I pulled them myself, the customers didn’t know I was doing this. I sold the product that I had that did not have the logo on it. And I told my rep as well as the delivery guy that I did not want those brought into the store because I would not sell them,” he continued.
During the 2016-2017 season, many NFL players began kneeling during the national anthem. The protest was started by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick who began kneeling to protest against police brutality. The kneeling triggered fierce debate across the country and received criticism from President Trump.
Stewart told WHNT he understood why players were protesting but didn’t “agree with the tactic.”
"The cause is just. I think there are other ways to deal with it. This has brought attention to it I'm sure there is good that comes from this, I just don't agree with the tactic," he said.

The owner said refusing to support the league helped him sleep at night.
"This helps me sleep at night. I can sleep knowing that I'm not supporting somebody that's doing something I don't believe in," he explained.
Stewart told WAFF that most of his customers supported his cause but he has received some negative phone calls about the Facebook post.


 
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“This may cause me to lose some business, but here goes. S&Z supermarket currently will not be selling 20 ounce Pepsi or Diet Pepsi. These two items are currently produced with the NFL logo on them. I refuse to sell the product until the logo is removed. I will not bow down in order to make a dollar as long as the athletes are allowed to bow down and disrespect the flag and country I love,”
 

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Big deal, so some ma and pa small gas station store in Alabama doesn't sell Pepsi product with the NFL logo on it. This is a meaningless story.
 
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Lol businesses that don't want to make money are funny

As if him not selling those Pepsi products is hurting his bottom line. Dont be so obtuse.

If I lived nearby I'd go out of my way to patronize his store, if anything this news will bring him more customers.
 
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Lol. Big deal. People like her won't make it in this world. It's all about the green. Also, her little futile way of protesting the protesting isn't even making a minuscule dent for Pepsi. Dumb fat bimbo.

Coke is better by the way.
 
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I happened to like it. And it has lots of meaning to me.

Her lame protest is about as useless and irrelevant as your lame, bigoted, propaganda in the cesspool/politics forum. No matter cares or reads outside a few gamblers. Wasting your breath lol.

But hey, it's all good. We all do it. It's fun.
 

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As if him not selling those Pepsi products is hurting his bottom line. Dont be so obtuse.

If I lived nearby I'd go out of my way to patronize his store, if anything this news will bring him more customers.

There are not a lot of people like you in Athens Alabama



I do like the obtuse line though, shades of shawshank
 
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There are not a lot of people like you in Athens Alabama



I do like the obtuse line though, shades of shawshank

That's probably where he learned the word. Lol. Then looked it up and feels articulate using it. What a dumbass geezer. Lol.

Later peeps. Gonna go play some ball. Check y'all later. It's been fun as always.
 
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As if him not selling those Pepsi products is hurting his bottom line. Dont be so obtuse.

If I lived nearby I'd go out of my way to patronize his store, if anything this news will bring him more customers.

I agree and applaud his action to stand up for what he believes even though it could hurt him. And I would also give him my business if I lived nearby because of his stance.
 

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I agree and applaud his action to stand up for what he believes even though it could hurt him. And I would also give him my business if I lived nearby because of his stance.


That's why it's a joke. They won't lose any money. The are using it as "free" publicity. Hoping that suckers will agree that it's great and shop there more often out of principal. Even if that doesn't happen it's still free publicity. Sure there will lose out on whatever 20oz pepsi bottles were to their business maybe .05% of total sales. The publicity will more then make up for that.

If it was just on principal there would be no articles written. They just wouldn't carry it. But they know suckers will love them for it and it will help business.
 

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I don't know who's more offended by everything, millennials or boomers, conservatives or liberals? And like Nike, I don't think they will lose money. The lemmings will line up to buy others stuff from their store.
 

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Is this because the store owner is so upset that Kaepernick has been banned from the league and almost all of the players who took a knee during the National Anthem in the past now stand for it?
 
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That's why it's a joke. They won't lose any money. The are using it as "free" publicity. Hoping that suckers will agree that it's great and shop there more often out of principal. Even if that doesn't happen it's still free publicity. Sure there will lose out on whatever 20oz pepsi bottles were to their business maybe .05% of total sales. The publicity will more then make up for that.

If it was just on principal there would be no articles written. They just wouldn't carry it. But they know suckers will love them for it and it will help business.

Since when is making money a joke? Sounds like a pretty smart publicity stunt then which will probably work. Very smart business move.
 

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In Athens alabama?

Isn't Alabama like the reddest of states. I don't know cause I've never there, but as westerner here when I think of Alabama I think of people that are super right wing, and would eat this kind of thing up. I bet they end up with Chik Filet type lines. Solid Advertising. The Capitalist in me thinks it's gonna make them some money, and that's why they did it.
 

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Isn't Alabama like the reddest of states. I don't know cause I've never there, but as westerner here when I think of Alabama I think of people that are super right wing, and would eat this kind of thing up. I bet they end up with Chik Filet type lines. Solid Advertising. The Capitalist in me thinks it's gonna make them some money, and that's why they did it.

I read yesterday chic filet the longest average drive through wait of all fast food restaurants. The ones around here are absurd during peak times. Literally cant even get into the parking lot
 

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I read yesterday chic filet the longest average drive through wait of all fast food restaurants. The ones around here are absurd during peak times. Literally cant even get into the parking lot

In-n-Out Burger is worse. Notoriously long drive thru
 

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