Diet Caffeine Free Dr Pepper Discontinued
Hey, Dr Pepper: Please be a pal and let me buy Caffeine Free Dr Pepper again
Sometimes you have to take a stand and become an activist. This is one of those times.
My cause is insignificant and unimportant (but also super significant and very important), and my stand isn't likely to resonate (though it totally should). But, dang it, I'm gonna make it anyway.
Here goes: Caffeine Free Dr Pepper should be available everywhere, and it boggles my mind that it's not. You probably didn't even know that Caffeine Free Dr Pepper is part of our world, did you? I'm not surprised.
But here's wh y this is important, and why I'm making this plea to the Dr Pepper Muckety-Mucks: Once upon a time, Caffeine Free Dr Pepper was a game-changing soda for me.
When I discovered it back in, like, 2006, it was a celebratory moment in my Dr Pepper-loving life. The lack of caffeine opened up so many possibilities. See, despite my fondness for the regular product, I don't like drinking it at night because of the caffeine. I need my sleep. I don't even like drinking it in the late afternoon or with dinner because caffeine hangs around in your body for a long time. Caffeine Free Dr Pepper took care of that.
Basically, Caffeine Free Dr Pepper comes without rules. It's like Beverage Thunderdome.
The other great thing about it, and this can't be overstated, is that it tastes almost exactly like regular Dr Pepper. Like, 99.9999997 percent the same. So close that I can't really tell the difference—the perfect solution for someone who loves Dr Pepper but wants to cut back on caffeine.
(I'll pause here to say that I'm aware of Caffeine Free Diet Dr Pepper, but it's not the same. It's not even close, actually, so that's a no-go.)
Now, the drama: I can't find Caffeine Free Dr Pepper anywhere near me. After that initial discovery in 2006–2007(ish), it vanished from shelves at every store in my area. Despite Charlotte being a large, metropolitan area, this delicious caffeine free product is nowhere to be found.
What's the deal, Dr Pepper Muckety-Mucks?
I've been told this is up to individual regional bottlers, based on demand or cost or some such criteria, but I just can't imagine that, given the overall popularity of your products, Caffeine Free Dr Pepper is so unwanted that it's not worth my bottler's money and effort to carry it. Maybe I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem likely. A side effect of this situation is that my local retailers aren't even able to special-order it for me, or so I've been told.
Yet, Caffeine Free Dr Pepper is still available in some places: Tennessee, Alabama, parts of Georgia, to name a few. When I find it sold online via Target or Walmart or another retailer, I continue to get the "not available within 100 miles of Charlotte" message—and no offer to ship it to me. It's disheartening, y'all. The other option is finding a secondary seller on Amazon or eBay, or some specialty soda shop. But I'm not paying $12 for a 12-pack or $10 for a 2-liter. My love has limits.
Perhaps most perplexing of all is that it's still listed as a product on your website, which by definition means it's something I should be able to buy. But because you don't offer to sell it to me directly, and because the Charlotte area is a Caffeine Free Dr Pepper black hole, your product listing is just a giant, sugary tease. Not cool.
But it's not been a total loss since 2007(ish), I must confess. The caffeine free product is available in Myrtle Beach, S.C., where I often vacation. Or, rather, it was available there until this past summer, when it vanished from there too. This meant I was no longer able to stock up and bring it back across state lines.
What gives, Dr Pepper Muckety-Mucks? I truly don't understand.
I mean, there are caffeine free versions of every other popular soda. It just stands to reason that your caffeine free version would be available to help you hang with your competitors. Just walk through the soda aisle at any major supermarket.
Coke gets it, obviously.
Pepsi gets it.
Even Mountain Dew gets it. MOUNTAIN DEW! The whole point of Mountain Dew is the caffeine.
This is madness.
I. Don't. Get. It.
So, I'm pleading with you, Dr Pepper Muckety-Mucks: Let me buy Caffeine Free Dr Pepper. Why don't you want my money? Some rudimentary Googling tells me I'm not alone. People who have tried it love it. But it seems few people can find it. Why don't you want our money?
OK, maybe there really is some financial data that says Caffeine Free Dr Pepper isn't worth selling on a mass scale along with your other products. Maybe your numbers say that the market for it is too small. Fine. But perhaps it's just a marketing problem. Given the relative scarcity of this product, I'd imagine that a lot of Dr Pepper fans don't know that it exists. Whenever I bring it up to someone, the response is either, "I didn't know that was a thing" or "You mean Caffeine Free Diet Dr Pepper?" (Which, again, I don't.)
Regardless of which question they ask, they're always intrigued. And why wouldn't they be? Caffeine Free Dr Pepper is amazing in concept and in reality.
So, that's my plea. Just make Caffeine Free Dr Pepper as easy as to buy as Caffeine Free Coke or Caffeine Free Pepsi or Caffeine Free Mountain Dew. Help me help you.
Take my money, Dr Pepper Muckety-Mucks. I beg you.
Diet Caffeine Free Dr Pepper Discontinued
Source: https://medium.com/@ByJasonFoster_6851/hey-dr-pepper-please-be-a-pal-and-let-me-buy-caffeine-free-dr-pepper-again-921bc047faa3
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