Can you get me a coke?
It's all of a sudden become an absolute nightmare!! Do I look for one with their name on it? I saw one at the front of the freezer, there it was, Chris, I picked it up, that's nice I thought....but what if she thinks I rummaged around to try to find it? What will she think? That im some sort of stalker? I'll put it back, but then what if I don't bring one back with her name on it, will she think that I don't care? That I don't like her?
Arrrrrgghhh, thanks coke, it's a ****ing nightmare just getting a coke!!!
Remove the label, say it fell off somewhere.
(of course, a proper friend wouldn't give a tuppenny toss one way or the other...)
I think you clearly overthink things
Just get 2 lines and everyone is happy
My wife found one with her name on.
She likes to drink alone.
Whoever came up with friends coke is a marketing genius. The number of conversations/facebook posts/tweets/forum post that this has generated is absolutelty phenominal.
Apparanetly when it was done in Aus first it increased sales by 4%. That is absolutely huge consuidering coke is basically a comodity.
Girl with boys name = NUTTER 😯
Emsz run for your life, about the Coke who cares as long as it is really cold.
Pick up the bottle that was at the front of the freezer, i.e the one with Chris on and tell her the truth, i.e that it was right there at the front of the freezer...
If Chris begins to overthink it then you are a match made in heaven.
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What? when did they start putting names on coke? Is this like at starbucks? #confused#
unklehomered - I had to google this too. Now I feel old.
ETA - when I read emsz's post I first had visions of a shared student house where everyone writes their name on everything they put in the fridge so nobody else nicks it. Guess there's an app for that now too. 😕
Pass her another one, drink the one with Chris on it yourself, in one gulp, then wink at her.
zokes - MemberI think you clearly overthink things
Err, she's a woman, duh.
OK, I have now googled it.
Really?
This is a thing people care about? That's weird. Though I might buy a steak at the butcher if the Cow's name was Homer I suppose... does that count? But Homer the loaf of bread, or Homer the milk... not so much.
Weren't there sweets when we were kids that had names on them or something???
[i]I think you clearly overthink things[/i]
Really I'm not, I sort of know this girl, she's cute, it's loaded, think about a girl you fancy, what are you saying with the coke?
AND the chances of finding one with my name on it is pretty non existent
Grumpy
Buy a Pepsi. Bosh! 😉
Just get her some Irn-Bru with ‘FANNY’ written on it.
[i]Buy a Pepsi[/i]
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Irn Bru might be a safe choice?
what are you saying with the coke?
I'd prefer you without teeth [for what I have in mind]?
Irn Bru might be a safe choice?
Yes, I revoke my previous suggestion.
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Never seen a Coke bottle with 'footflaps' on it.......
and to think.....it was only a month ago I changed my name to coke
grrrrrr
I sort of know this girl, she's cute
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think about a girl you fancy, what are you saying with the coke?
She's currently doing the washing up whilst I drink a beer. Not sure we have any coke in the house.
Gets right up my nose.
See what I did there, huh?
the first time I saw this was when I was in M&S and saw a Coke bottle at the front of the fridge with my name on it... I did a double-take 😯
I thought Jeremy Beadle/ Noel Edmonds was going to jump out and slap me with his tally-whacker.
needless to say I took it without paying - it had to be mine, it had my name on it.
[i]Whoever came up with friends coke is a marketing genius. [/i]
Really? I thought it was crap. Certainly haven't bought any more (or less) Coke because of it.
My son says he'll never find a bottle with his name on it, so he doesn't care much for the campaign.
Certainly haven't bought any more (or less) Coke because of it
That's good enough evidence for me!
Oh actually, when I think about it.....
[url= http://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-coca-cola-2011-6?op=1 ]Coca-cola are notoriosly bad at marketing campaigns![/url]
I have avoided cokes when out because of the names. Its trying to hard. And I'm not drinking something with someone else's name on it.
Those coke stats are mental! 😯
"Coke makes so many different beverages that if you drank one per day, it would take you over 9 years to try them all"
Wow.
[i]I'm not drinking something with someone else's name on it. [/i]
That must limit your choice of beverage quite singificantly. 90% of aloholic drink producers must be named after their founders?
Can anyone please explain this thread to someone who thought it was going to be about some seriously pokey white party dust borrowed from a friend?
Aged 22 I had to google this... Is that bad?
Just to go off on that tangent no_eyed_deer....
I walked in to the toilets of the sadly now defunct Tangled club night at the Pheonix in Manchester.
There was a wannbee baller carefully lining up a few big fat lines of his favourite nose sherbert for him and his friends. Of course he was making sure that everyone one who came in knew about how cool and generous he was to the small crowd gathering to watch the muppet. After about 10 minutes of faffing he then bent down to partake and brushed past the sensor zone of the hand dryer a couple of feet away resulting in a large and very potent white cloud that every clubber in there was desperately trying to inhale. Once everyone calmed down the entire toilet full of people collapsed in laughter at this guy and themselves. Probably had to be there, but one of the funniest moments of my life.
My son says he'll never find a bottle with his name on it, so he doesn't care much for the campaign.
That is part of the genius of it. You and your son have just been prompted to have a conversation about coke, a product so ubiquitous that you normally wouldn't even think twice about it. You may not have bought any more becuase of it but 4% sales increase doesn't lie.
[i]4% sales increase doesn't lie. [/i]
unless it coincided with a hot spell or a public holiday season or a shortage of Pepsi?
Weirdly enough alot of the food in the fridge at work has been named. Today i ate a sandwich called Elaine 🙂
Really I'm not, I sort of know this girl, she's cute, it's loaded, think about a girl you fancy, what are you saying with the coke?
The name doesn't matter just make sure you shake it really well before you give it to her, Coke goes all over her top, you help her off with her top - BOOM.
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"Coke makes so many different beverages that if you drank one per day, it would take you over 9 years to try them all"
Does that include the several days you'll spend retching after having drunk lychee-ade?
well selling your product with Grumpy written on the side is gonna be a bit of a marketing disaster no?AND the chances of finding one with my name on it is pretty non existentGrumpy
Whoever came up with friends coke is a marketing genius.
Really? I thought it was crap. Certainly haven't bought any more (or less) Coke because of it.
Saw those with names on in Ireland. Declared it a stupid idea (but not as stupid as using your name in $tarbuck$) and bought a Sprite or Fanta instead.
Only fridge rearranging I'd do is to try to make sure I'm gonna get a chilled bottle, and not one that's just been put in the fridge.
Really? I thought it was crap.
Quite the opposite. As users of facebook/twitter will know, as soon as these youngsters find a bottle with thier name on it, they take a picture of the bottle and post it up, thus millions of pics with cokes logo/product on, with the poster saying how ace it is. For free.
The person who thought of that is really bloody clever....
Really? [s]I thought it was crap[/s] I'm too old to understand today's yoof.
Fixed it for myself 🙂
😀
The person who thought of that is really bloody clever....
or consumers are really bloody stupid
and bought a Sprite or Fanta instead.
Which are both owned by....
you guessed it.
A 4% increase initially then a decline as many don't want to be seen drinking coke with "Willian", "Angela", "Jeremy", "Harry", "Penelope" "Tom", "Bono", "Charles", "Diana", "Richard", "Elizabeth"... on and they sit on the shelves. Unless of course Coke are clever enough not use names that encourage drinking Pepsi instead.
The person who thought of that is really bloody clever....or consumers are really bloody stupid
These aren't mutually exclusive.
It takes a clever person to work out the new and devious ways the general population will find to demonstrate their stupidity.
Which are both owned by....
We got the joke...
and bought a Sprite or Fanta instead.
Which are both owned by....
doesn't matter
I was already going to the cabinet to buy a drink. So my contribution to their sales statistics (even if it is infinitesimal) is for something without a silly name on rather than one with.
edit: although next time, I'll pick something from the cabinet next door, and check that it's not produced/bottled under licence by Cadbury-Schweppes (or whoever it is these days).
So it wasn't a joke! Apologies all round!
I got my mrs one the other day, they didn't have one with her name on so I just called her Sean for the rest of the day..
Singletrack "It's racist" Alert:
I've not seen any bottles of "Share a Coke with...." Parveen, Hafizur or Ejaz, which are all pretty common names round these parts....
jussayin....
Does that include the several days you'll spend retching after having drunk lychee-ade?
You need some of this!
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It's big in Singapore. Obviously.
Edlong, I've seen Abdul and Mohammed on bottles
Okay, then ignore me, I talk rubbish!
"Share a Coke with Mohammed" might get some interesting responses though!
The Directors of coke'll be shacked up with Salman Rushdie soon...
On Newsnight review?
When they roll this out in Delhi it's possible there may not be many Edwards in there.
Saying that, you're probably right! I'd assume they used a list of "100 most popular names" or something similar so I'd expect a Mohammed in there surely?
edit: beaten too it.
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Also made it over to Ireland.
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Should I happen across a bottle of Coke with my name on it, it can damn well stay there; I truly can't remember the last time I drank a bottle, possibly when I was at school, so forty years ago... 😕
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dont be sucked in people, its still sh!t whatever they call it
I really don't get this promotion.
I was off up the shop the other day and my missus asked me to get her a coke, look for one with her name on it. I agreed to do as she asked.
I went up and picked up the first one on the shelf. I think it had Dave on it.
I took it home and gave it to my missus. "Sorry, I looked, but they just didn't have one with your name on"
For anybody interested in the production side of things, here's [url= http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=1410545#.Ubi995xZ4bM ]a little background on the printing process[/url], also mentioning that they use a different list of names and endearments depending on the end-country.
Next time I pick up a pig for the freezer I'll ask what it's name is. Was.
I was in a shop with my daughter and her friend and they were sorting through the bottles looking for their names;
"You won't find your names, they're only Dutch names"
"Oh, OK we'll look for Koen then", Koen is a Dutch friend, it's pronounced koon.
"Come on you two, we have to go"
"We can't find any Koen's"
"Let's go" we left and carried on walking down the street with the friends mum.
"Dad, can we go and look for Koen's in that shop?"
It took some explaining to the mother I can tell you.
My dad is an executive at Coke and i have just sent him the Amazon link to that book. I also enjoy sending him articles about how crap Coke are at social marketing (which this campaign has helped improve a fair bit). Lots of travel perks with the job though.
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Next time I pick up a pig for the freezer I'll ask what it's name is. Was.
when i had the farm, we named one of the pigs 'lovely' so when we had people over for dinner and they commented "this pork is lovely" we got to giggle - you make your own fun in the countryside
wow all this has completely and utterly passed my buy I had no idea at all WTF the thread was about.
Knowledge is not always power and ignorance is often bliss
Junky, as any fule kno, knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Is there one called Danniella yet?
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For the info of the STW equality police, I spotted bottles with Faisal and Amandeep on them amongst others today.
Never one to miss out on a sweet marketing opportunity...
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/irn-bru-to-sell-bottles-emblazoned-with-fanny-1-2971466
I think theres possibly a subtext to the 'share' campaign apart from the voguish 'sharing' is like 'liking' social networky thing.
A few years back some of the big confectionary companies got called before parliament over the selling of super-sized chocolate bars - Mars Kingsize and the like. In that hearing cadburys managed to wriggle off the hook because their bars break into chunks and were therefore, they said, something to be shared amongst several people, not one big portion of diabetes for one person. Following that Mars re-packaged their monster sized bars as 'Duos' - two small bars in a pack the same size as the previous king size ones. So a pack therefore contained two small portions for two people to share rather than one big one.
The coke share campaign is on the 500ml bottles which are pretty much the default choice in most outlets now, its getting quite difficult to find a 330ml can in many shops except maybe in multipacks. But on the back of these bottles is nutritional info, RDAs etc relating to a 250ml portion, not the the 500ml thats in the bottle.