Will you NOW boycott Pepsi, Frito Lay, et al?

[Deja Q]

Poll question: Will you NOW boycott Pepsi, Frito Lay, et al?

PepsiCo Plans to Cut 750 Jobs

NEW YORK (AP) - PepsiCo Inc. plans to cut 750 jobs and close a snack manufacturing plant in Louisville as part of a plan to streamline its snack food and beverage operations.

The maker of Pepsi, Gatorade and Tropicana drinks and Frito-Lay snacks also said Tuesday it was reaffirming its earnings outlook for 2003 and expects double-digit growth in earnings per share in 2004.

The company, based in Purchase, N.Y., said most of the 750 job cuts, representing about a half percent of its worldwide work force of 142,000 people, would come in its North American operations.



Took that from my compuserve welcome window. No link. :cry: It's not the full article, but you get the point.

750 layoffs despite DOUBLE DIGIT PROFITS?! Michael Moore was pissed off at a company that pulled this shit and spoke his mind in "Stupid White Men".

I wonder if 750 new jobs will magically popup elsewhere in its "worldwide work force"... x(

I've had it with them. (anybody remember the ABC special a year ago, "The ____ of America" it was called (forgot what's in the ____) and the episode I saw was a bit tour of Pepsico and some propaganda on their products and of globalization.

[louis-t]

1. fleecing?

[Deja Q]

4. Nope. It was something positive-oriented...

Though "fleecing" sure as heck seems more appropriate. :D

Welcome to DU! :party: :bounce:

[RebelOne]

2. But I can't give up my Fritos. They're my favorite snack food.

I'll boycott Lay's potato chips, though.

[mac56]

3. Remember that Pepsi is Quaker Oats now too.

They acquired Quaker Oats to get the rights to Gatorade.

I say boycott 'em anyway.

[Deja Q]

6. Good catch!

Thanks!

Ugh. All these big corporate entities... they're repuke, buy more and more smaller companies out... meanwhile the repukes say they support small businesses.

Much like how the aliens in "Mars Attacks!" kept saying they wanted to be our friends as they were disintegrating us... :D

[HuckleB]

OK.

But I just hope Royal Crown hasn't followed suit. I wouldn't know what to do then. Coke just ain't it, for me.

[Zhade]

22. RC is part of the Dr. Pepper line - and guess who handles that?

The Carlyle Group.

[Loonman]

5. Yeah, let's boycott so they have to fire more people.

:shrug:

[HuckleB]

7. "Have to"

Would be the key there. How does a company "have to" fire anyone when it's making the type of profits that it is making. Did the corporate folk take a cut in pay? Did their bonuses shrink? I doubt it. They likely increased their personal income with these layoffs.

[mac56]

8. "Have to"?

They don't "have to" lay these people off. They're predicting record profits.

[Deja Q]

9. A painless revolution? This is beyond sad.

We don't like big corporations and their power, yet the only thing we CAN do, boycotting them, is a no-no because someone might lose their job.

:shrug: is right.

I choose to boycott. We need to end their power and create something new and better. Not stick to the status quo and let them continue their ways, which has been proven to include laying people off in times of profit! You don't see the evil in that?

[stopthegop]

10. "see the evil in that"

so, you believe a company is obligated to keep an employee on staff, even if they can do the job without him?...do you have to be losing money before it's OK to lay off someone?

[Deja Q]

16. If a company is making a good profit, that means

the system is working.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

These corporations are so big in the first place, they have an increasing responsibility to make and create decent paying jobs. Especially if they buy up smaller companies, small businesses, and self-employed businesses in order to get bigger. Triply especially when they become the only game in town.

If the employee turns bad or isn't doing his job, he's ultimately going to get fired. No problem there.

And while the repukes and "centrists" claim to support small businesses and jobs for Americans, they increasingly support the big corporations more - who are destroying smaller companies AND taking away jobs, leaving lots of homeless with no way to live.

If they want the size and the power, they damn well better be responsible and fair toward S-O-C-I-E-T-Y as well. This "personal profit" so-called "freedom" has been abused for far too long.

[ArkDem]

11. The job cuts are part of a restructuring in which some older plants

are being shut down to move the operations to new plants in Fayetteville, Tenn., Jonesboro, Ark., Lynchburg, Va., Charlotte, N.C., and Frankfort, Ind. Also, some lines are being discontinued. Perhaps this will make the other 99.5% of Pepsico employees jobs more secure. But alas, I know nothing about business.

[cosmicdot]

12. so, it's 750 + the 330 in Louisville

PepsiCo to Close Louisville Plant

December 2, 2003 10:30 AM EST


PURCHASE, N.Y., Dec 02, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Frito Lay North America, part of PepsiCo, plans to close its Louisville, Ky. plant and retire several manufacturing lines in early 2004.

Production from the Louisville facility and the retired lines in Aberdeen, Md., and Jonesboro, Ark., will be re-directed to newer and more efficient facilities in Fayetteville, Tenn.; Jonesboro, Ark.; Lynchburg, Va.; Charlotte, N.C., and Frankfort, Ind.

Approximately 330 employees will be affected by the changes, primarily at the Louisville plant, which will close in the first quarter of 2004.

Meanwhile the beverage and snack-food giant said it expects to record a fourth-quarter charge of about 6 cents a share from the job cuts, which total about 750 from all divisions.

http://start.earthlink.net/newsarticle?cat=1&aid=Corporate7200312021040

PepsiCo Plans to Cut 750 Jobs

NEW YORK - PepsiCo Inc. plans to cut 750 jobs and close a snack manufacturing plant in Louisville as part of a plan to streamline its snack food and beverage operations.

http://start.earthlink.net/track?add=1&id=1017942&url=/newsarticle%3Fcat%3D1%26aid%3DD7V6AMTO1_story&cat=1

[el_gato]

13. i've been boycotting them for 2 years

[SeveneightyWhoa]

14. Doesn't Carlyle Group own Canada Dry?

Now THATS a product worth boycotting.

[AntiCoup2K4]

17. Yes, but they also own 7-up, Dr. Pepper, RC Cola, Squirt, etc.

Oh well, high fructose corn syrup is poison anyway. Guess I need to drink more good ol' microbrews :evilgrin:

[Spirochete]

15. I'll do nothing different

than I'm already doing - which is not using their products anyway.
Hell with the greedy bastards.

[Exultant Democracy]

18. they are better then coke

[supernova]

19. Not boycotting

as I don't by Pepsi or Frito-Lay products anyway.

[kath]

20. I boycotted them for awhile after the Selection

because they had some stupid commercials about the Long Count that *really* pissed me off!

[Sting]

21. noooooooooo

Pepsi tastes much better than Coke!

[Piperay]

23. I don't comsume

that crap anyway so I guess I will continue as usual. :shrug: