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What is the best selling soda right now? ›

co*ke is still the top soda in America. But the runner up spot, long held by Pepsi, now belongs to Dr Pepper. After years of slowly gaining market share, Dr Pepper inched ahead of Pepsi as the number two soda brand in the country in 2023, according to market share data from Beverage Digest, a trade publication.

The broad story here is fairly straightforward. As inflation began to take off in 2021 and 2022, that impacted beverage makers like Coca-Cola and Pepsi, which pointed to higher costs coming from a variety of angles, including aluminum cans, packaging, labor, and general supply chain woes.

Coca-Cola said it has been raising prices to offset its own higher costs for ingredients, aluminum cans, packaging and wages. That has led to a decline in the number of products it is selling in some categories as consumers switch to lower-cost alternatives or skip their afternoon Diet co*ke fix.

Coca-Cola is commonly known as co*ke and is the largest-selling cold drink in the country.

According to the data, shared with the Wall Street Journal, co*ke still leads by a very healthy margin, taking home 19.2% of the soda market in the U.S. by sales volume.

PepsiCo typically prices its goods based on consumer demand and demographics. Coca-Cola has a centralized focus on the beverage industry, with a presence in numerous and different beverage categories. Coca-Cola prices its products in accordance with how industry competitors price comparable goods.

Adolescents and young adults are the heaviest consumers of sugary drinks. Even young infants and toddlers drink a lot of sugary drinks, primarily fruit drinks.

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Producers know this and thus put the large sodas on the shelf which makes them warm. The smaller bottles are in fridges near the checkout where people buy things for immediate consumption. Thus, the elasticity of demand is what is causing the price disparity, not the costs of production.

In the past 15 years, soft drink consumption declined by 60 percent just for teenagers. Americans are ditching their sugary soft drinks and picking up healthier options, primarily bottled water. People are turning away from high-priced, high-calorie beverages, leading to a substantial decline in demand.

Is making soda cheaper than buying it? ›

The savings for making soda water at home vary based on how much you drink, of course, but using a SodaStream, SodaSensei or another carbonator could save up to $600 a year for a household of two seltzer-drinkin' fools. Here's a full breakdown of how much you'll save if you start making the fizzy stuff at home.

Coca-Cola outsells every soft drink in almost all countries around the world, but there are at least 3 brands that could defend its home market: Inca Kola, Irn-Bru, and Vimto.

Coca Cola also led the ranking of convenience sales measured by volume. Second place in the rankings went to retailers' own labels with almost 89 million liters sold. However, third place went to Pepsi's MAX brand.

According to Mintel, despite the rise of spicy and fruity sodas, cola is still holding on as the top soda flavor. When you take Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Zero Sugar and other offshoots into account, Pepsi is still the No 2 soda, behind co*ke.

So What's the most unpopular soda choice? It's Diet co*ke surprisingly. Followed by Sierra Mist . . . Sunkist . . . 7-Up . . . and Barq's Root Beer.