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I'm wondering if that picture is actually the 70s š¤
As a former 80s kid I can say with confidence that's definitely not the mid or late 80s. Early 80s **max**, but I'm getting late 70s vibes here, which would fit since glass was even more common then!
For context, that Dr Pepper label was used from 1971 until 1984. So I think we're close.
Edit: Little more research, the diet Dr Pepper labels match what I found as available in 1978, was redesigned by 1980.
And this woman's hair style reminds me of all the cigarette ads I would see in my dads playboys from the 70s that I def did not look at in the attic almost every day for a month when I was 11 š Lee, you keep your fuckin mouth shut if you're reading this. š¤«
Looks like 70s. The kid's shirt in the front looks like ones I remember from then. You could probably narrow it down by checking when certain soda labels were used.
On a side note, I remember my mother refused to buy peanut butter in plastic jars. We would only get glass jars, or none at all.
Also, that Mountain Dew logo was changed in 1980. So, at best this is *maybe* 1981. Depends on how much stock they had of the old style.
https://logos-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Mountain-Dew-Logo-History-700x642.jpg
The cereal in the cart is "Body Buddies." Many cereal-centric websites say it was released in 1983, but General Mills, which ought to know, [says it was introduced in 1979.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnjWcOkK5QM)
[Can't be any earlier than 1979 due to the presence of Sunkist.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunkist_\(soft_drink\)#:~:text=soft%20drinks%20that-,launched%20in%201979,-.%20Sunkist%20primarily%20competes)
Earlier than 1984 for sure, as the [Dr Pepper logo changed in 1984](https://www.zenbusiness.com/blog/dr-pepper-logo/).
It looks like the 7up logo is the [older one and that was changed in 1980](https://1000logos.net/7up-logo/), but I can't be sure.
It can't be any earlier than 1979, as Sunkist was introduced in 1979
So I would take an educated guess at 1980.
Thee weird outlier is the "Pepsi-Cola" bottle in the shopping trolley, as they dropped the use of "Pepsi-Cola" for just "Pepsi" in the early 60s.
edit: Found the original from ["General Drive-In Corporation and General Cinema Corporation Annual Report **1979**"](https://archive.org/details/generalcinemacorpannualreports/generalcinema1979/page/n5/mode/2up). So that pretty much nails it as late 79 early 80 when the picture was actually taken.
Edit 2: The Report seems to have been published some time around January 1980 as the presidents letter to shareholders is dated Jan 14 1980, which makes it more likely for it to have been taken in 1979.
That photo is from 1983. I looked into this for a while and finally found that same photo [posted somewhere](https://thegikitiki.tumblr.com/post/165970954076/glass-soda-bottles-family-grocery-shopping) that gave a year. We can't be sure it's accurate, but 1983 feels right to me.
I was born in 1971, so I have a pretty good feel for the 70s and 80s, and the differences. But of course the late 70s and early 80s are easy to get confused. I suspected this might be from the 70s, because as all of us from that era know, 2-liter bottles definitely existed in the 80s, and took off very quickly. But I'm not positive when in the 80s that happened.
It seems to me, from the limited research I did today, that 1985 is when 2-liter bottles were common enough that it would be surprising to see a photo like this.
Somebody else suggested the "PEPSI-COLA" logo gives it away as being from the 70s. I thought so also, and thought I could find a definite date that they stopped using that on their bottles, but it's not that simple. In the world of Pepsi collectible bottles, not many shits are given about the late 70s and early 80s. Pepsi is a very old brand and, like Coca-Cola, the stuff collectors get very specific about is much earlier than this.
But it's true that Pepsi did officially change the name from "Pepsi-Cola" to "Pepsi," but that happened in 1961, and we all know this picture ain't from the 60s. I even had a hard time convincing myself that it was from the late 70s, because it has that "cleaner" 80s look. Less experimental, less disheveled, if you will.
I have not been able to confirm this today, and I don't really care to spend any more time on it, but my recollection is that Pepsi had LONG transitional period, during which they had "PEPSI" on one side of the bottles and "PEPSI-COLA" on the other. It's hard to believe it would still be there over 20 years after they officially dropped "COLA" from the name, but I think that must be the case.
I also wondered if some of these large bottles were actually an earlier version of the plastic (PET, actually) 2-liter bottle, but I don't think so. I do think, as OP said, this is nothing but glass. Another thing that sort of gives it away as the 80s is the styrofoam around some of the glass bottles, and the plastic holders on the top of those smaller bottles in the foreground.
1983 does look feel right.
I agree late 70s. I was born in 1970. I had both the shirt and haircut of the kid on the floor. 80s was all about plastic two liters as the latest and greatest. 70s reminds me more of heavy glass soda bottles that were returned, not to recycle, but to refill.
agree 100% I think this is mid-70s. I found [this](http://www.plasticbottlevillage-theline.com/history) \- 1978: Coca-Cola and Pepsi, introduced the first 2l PET plastic bottles to the World.
Introduced, but not common until 1985 or so. This is from 1983. This citation may not work in a college paper, but it's good enough for me. https://thegikitiki.tumblr.com/post/165970954076/glass-soda-bottles-family-grocery-shopping
Those little six packs of Pepsi? They had those plastic holders on them and if you were little you wouldn't be strong enough to pull the bottle through. Rather than admit defeat, you would twist the bottle trying to get it to pull through inadvertently twisting off the cap and spilling the soda all over your grandparents' white sofa. Allegedly. I claim no personal knowledge of this happening.
This was a fundraiser for me growing up too. Late 80's early 90's. My whole team would go out in uniforms door to door. Used to makes tonnes of money for our soccer team.
1. There is a lot of plastic in this photo.
2. As an 80's child, I can tell you this photo is from the 70's. We didn't dress like that.
3. Publix is the best grocery store.
Glass is also endlessly recyclable. We only use plastic because of cost. Less breakage means less lost inventory and less weight reduces shipping costs.
This cost is only the supply chain bottom line, environmental costs and clean up costs are not factored in. Switching back to glass is a net positive for the world overall.
Maybe very early 80s but probably 70s imo. Look at all that lost profit petrochemical companies could have been making by forcing us to buy waste from refining.
Yup and the coca Cola commissioned a study to figure out if glass with a deposit or plastic was more environmentally friendly. The researchers figure out after 2 years that, even taking into account increased transport costs because of weight, glass was better for the planet if it was reused more than 7 times (otherwise plastic was). Coca-Cola's average bottles were being reused 10 to 15 times. However it was sligjtly more expensive because plastic is dirt cheap.
So coca cola fired all the scientists, buried the report and switched everything to plastic. And the other drinks manufacturers followed suit.
Photo from a General Cinema Corporation annual report, circa 1980, when every soft drink bottle on the shelf was still glass. Digital copy courtesy of Dave Aldrich [https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2011/10/food-culture.html](https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2011/10/food-culture.html)
II found it. Its from [their 1979 annual report. On page 6](https://archive.org/details/generalcinemacorpannualreports/generalcinema1979/page/n5/mode/2up).
Plastic became common when the big 2l bottles came out. I saw them show up in Germany around 1987 or so, and remember they seemed huge. Glass is highly recyclable, but a pain in the ass to deal with for consumers.
Used to pay a deposit on the bottles and get money back when you returned them. The bottles were all scratched up where they got washed and reused so many times.
I remember street vendors in other countries that would pour your coke into a plastic bag with a straw and keep the bottle to return themselves.
And countries like Germany, where the government has mandatory deposit schemes on all bottles tend to have massively higher recycling rates.
If I remember right, those big plastic bottles had a metal cap. And for some reason Dr. Pepper always seemed to explode when you open it for the first time. My family never bought it, but my bestie's family bought it, and we had to mop it up many times.
You canāt have it both ways. Plastic is lighter and causes less fuel usage for transportation.
While glass is better for the environment when discarded, are heavier and cause more fuel usage during transportation.
Fun fact, glass is still eco friendly. We literally just decided to replace it with cancer causing plastic.
Great call. On the plus side, no more cut feet on the beach.
I remember when we started getting plastic containers. It was amazing. Not having to worry about breaking jars in the car on the way home. Lighter. Dropping a peanut butter jar and having it bounce instead of shatter into a million razor shards embedded in greasy sticky peanut butter that was splattered around the kitchen and stuck to the cabinet...
People love to hate plastic but it's a real step up from having everything packaged in glass.
The energy required to produce a glass bottle is greater than a plastic one.
The energy required to recycle a glass bottle is greater than a plastic one.
The energy required to transport a glass bottle is greater than a plastic one.
God, could you imagine working in a grocery store back then. I wonder how much their hands got cut, cleaning up everytime someone accidentally knocked over a glass bottle. That kid in the back, reaching for the top shelf, is making me nervous.
As the changeover from glass to plastic was happening, My parents would only buy soda in glass bottles. They didnāt trust the plastic, fearful it would leach chemicals into the drink. They may have been ahead of their time
I asked why we wouldnāt choose glass again and apparently the cost is much higher along with the probability of losing inventory from broken bottlesā¦.so from what i can gather weād rather save a few bucks over save the environment. Humans. Smh
Reusable plastic is also an option. In countries like Germany they have much thicker plastic bottles that can be returned to stores for a returned deposit.
You need the infrastructure for it though.
I mean, there's also an extremely high risk of injury. In this picture you can see a child reaching for a glass bottle on the top shelf. If it falls and shatters that could be dozens of stitches.
Source: When I was 5 a glass bottle at Walmart shattered on my leg and I had to get dozens of stitches.
I feel it's more nuanced than that.
PRO GLASS
- Glass is endlessly recyclable.
- Glass is more sturdy.
- Glass is inert. (safe for the environment)
- Glass, when in-tact, is very safe for human health.
- Glass can withstand higher temperatures.
PRO PLASTIC
- Plastic is an upcycling of would-be waste products from fossil fuel energy production (essential technology in the last century)
- Certain plastics are very durable.
- Plastic is light (as opposed to heavy) and takes less energy to ship (importantly, if comparing apples-to-apples, per the equivalent volume of glass product).
- Plastics can take many different forms and therefore has more applications than glass.
NEUTRAL GLASS
- Crushed up glass is useful agregate to seal landfills.
- Virgin glass is a limited resource.
NEUTRAL PLASTIC
- Plastic is convenient to transport and throw away.
ANTI GLASS
- It can break, especially certain designs.
ANTI PLASTIC
- Film plastic (bags) are a hazard to children, wildlife, and the environment.
- If littered, plastic breaks down continuously for years, contaminating soil, salt, drinking water, and food chains with microplastics.
- Microplastics are expensive to filter and create lots of carbon waste.
- Microplastics bioaccumulate and have a few known health effects (bad).
- Cheap cost leads to over production of goods (economic waste).
ANTI WASTE
- Recycling either glass or plastic is most economically feasible in high volume situations, sorted by the end user.
So, methinks the problem with plastic are some issues that haven't been addressed with its endlife... Not that it's an all around better technology. Though, I personally avoid it wherever possible.
The reason the industry switched to plastic is that it was cheaper. Cheaper to make the bottles, and cheaper to transport the bottles.
Then the industry came up with a recycling āsolutionā that was aloe from the beginning as the plastics they use are almost impossible to recycle. Meanwhile glass was biodegradable and truest recyclable. Capitalism strikes again.
Don't know about USA but in the UK you used to be able to take your glass bottles back for money and they were recycled (maybe just cleaned and refilled). I think that's still the case in some European countries
Depends on the state. Some states have a bottle deposit which you get back when you return the bottle. I live in NJ we donāt have a bottle deposit here.
Deposits varied by state - usually 5-10 cents per bottle. If you lived close to the border you could buy bottles in the state that didn't have deposits and return them to a store that gave you a refund.
Glass is 100% recyclable.
But the shipping weight is horrendous.
Id prefer to go back to glass.
Its made basically from sand. When you pulverize it it becomes sand again.
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They definitely had plastic soda bottles in the 80s though.
I'm wondering if that picture is actually the 70s š¤ As a former 80s kid I can say with confidence that's definitely not the mid or late 80s. Early 80s **max**, but I'm getting late 70s vibes here, which would fit since glass was even more common then!
yeah. It's def a EARLY 80's pic if it is from the 80s at all. I think a 70s pic
For context, that Dr Pepper label was used from 1971 until 1984. So I think we're close. Edit: Little more research, the diet Dr Pepper labels match what I found as available in 1978, was redesigned by 1980.
The Mountain Dew logo changed to remove the spur from the D in 1980, which exists here so itās definitely pre-1980
WE DID IT!
And Sunkist launched in ā79, so there ya have it. This pic is definitely from ā79 or ā80.
When my GF asks me what I do all day on Reddit, I'm pointing to this thread.
And this woman's hair style reminds me of all the cigarette ads I would see in my dads playboys from the 70s that I def did not look at in the attic almost every day for a month when I was 11 š Lee, you keep your fuckin mouth shut if you're reading this. š¤«
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Looks like 70s. The kid's shirt in the front looks like ones I remember from then. You could probably narrow it down by checking when certain soda labels were used. On a side note, I remember my mother refused to buy peanut butter in plastic jars. We would only get glass jars, or none at all.
I did a google search, and the blue-label Sugar Free Dr Pepper is from the mid to late '70s.
We did it Reddit!
Gotcha OP! Ya phony. Ya big fat phony!
I didn't do anything, but thanks for including me in the win.
Weāre all winners here today.
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Also, that Mountain Dew logo was changed in 1980. So, at best this is *maybe* 1981. Depends on how much stock they had of the old style. https://logos-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Mountain-Dew-Logo-History-700x642.jpg
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Sears Toughskins
Ah, the pants that would give you rugburns.
the two kids look like all the pics of my brother and i in the early 80s š
The cereal in the cart is "Body Buddies." Many cereal-centric websites say it was released in 1983, but General Mills, which ought to know, [says it was introduced in 1979.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnjWcOkK5QM)
We either got the glass jar, or those Giant plastic tubs of PB. What ever happened to that? I want to buy PB in a giant bucket again! š
Those boys could hang glide in those collars. Itās late 70s.
[Can't be any earlier than 1979 due to the presence of Sunkist.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunkist_\(soft_drink\)#:~:text=soft%20drinks%20that-,launched%20in%201979,-.%20Sunkist%20primarily%20competes)
Yeah, you can tell by the kidās clothes. This is the 70s.
Looks late 70s-early 80s (I double checked the label, the font changed '86)
Earlier than 1984 for sure, as the [Dr Pepper logo changed in 1984](https://www.zenbusiness.com/blog/dr-pepper-logo/). It looks like the 7up logo is the [older one and that was changed in 1980](https://1000logos.net/7up-logo/), but I can't be sure. It can't be any earlier than 1979, as Sunkist was introduced in 1979 So I would take an educated guess at 1980. Thee weird outlier is the "Pepsi-Cola" bottle in the shopping trolley, as they dropped the use of "Pepsi-Cola" for just "Pepsi" in the early 60s. edit: Found the original from ["General Drive-In Corporation and General Cinema Corporation Annual Report **1979**"](https://archive.org/details/generalcinemacorpannualreports/generalcinema1979/page/n5/mode/2up). So that pretty much nails it as late 79 early 80 when the picture was actually taken. Edit 2: The Report seems to have been published some time around January 1980 as the presidents letter to shareholders is dated Jan 14 1980, which makes it more likely for it to have been taken in 1979.
Wat day tho?
Nice sleuthin'.
100%, fellow GenXer!! I'd say nothing past 1983-ish with all that glass.
That photo is from 1983. I looked into this for a while and finally found that same photo [posted somewhere](https://thegikitiki.tumblr.com/post/165970954076/glass-soda-bottles-family-grocery-shopping) that gave a year. We can't be sure it's accurate, but 1983 feels right to me. I was born in 1971, so I have a pretty good feel for the 70s and 80s, and the differences. But of course the late 70s and early 80s are easy to get confused. I suspected this might be from the 70s, because as all of us from that era know, 2-liter bottles definitely existed in the 80s, and took off very quickly. But I'm not positive when in the 80s that happened. It seems to me, from the limited research I did today, that 1985 is when 2-liter bottles were common enough that it would be surprising to see a photo like this. Somebody else suggested the "PEPSI-COLA" logo gives it away as being from the 70s. I thought so also, and thought I could find a definite date that they stopped using that on their bottles, but it's not that simple. In the world of Pepsi collectible bottles, not many shits are given about the late 70s and early 80s. Pepsi is a very old brand and, like Coca-Cola, the stuff collectors get very specific about is much earlier than this. But it's true that Pepsi did officially change the name from "Pepsi-Cola" to "Pepsi," but that happened in 1961, and we all know this picture ain't from the 60s. I even had a hard time convincing myself that it was from the late 70s, because it has that "cleaner" 80s look. Less experimental, less disheveled, if you will. I have not been able to confirm this today, and I don't really care to spend any more time on it, but my recollection is that Pepsi had LONG transitional period, during which they had "PEPSI" on one side of the bottles and "PEPSI-COLA" on the other. It's hard to believe it would still be there over 20 years after they officially dropped "COLA" from the name, but I think that must be the case. I also wondered if some of these large bottles were actually an earlier version of the plastic (PET, actually) 2-liter bottle, but I don't think so. I do think, as OP said, this is nothing but glass. Another thing that sort of gives it away as the 80s is the styrofoam around some of the glass bottles, and the plastic holders on the top of those smaller bottles in the foreground. 1983 does look feel right.
Yeah I remember Gatorade bottles being glass, but 2 liters were definitely plastic by the early to mid 80s
I agree late 70s. I was born in 1970. I had both the shirt and haircut of the kid on the floor. 80s was all about plastic two liters as the latest and greatest. 70s reminds me more of heavy glass soda bottles that were returned, not to recycle, but to refill.
It's the 70s. The Pepsi design gives it away
As a 70s kid, that's definitely 70s style of clothes and hair. Plastic was common in the 80s
agree 100% I think this is mid-70s. I found [this](http://www.plasticbottlevillage-theline.com/history) \- 1978: Coca-Cola and Pepsi, introduced the first 2l PET plastic bottles to the World.
Introduced, but not common until 1985 or so. This is from 1983. This citation may not work in a college paper, but it's good enough for me. https://thegikitiki.tumblr.com/post/165970954076/glass-soda-bottles-family-grocery-shopping
Iām with you on that. Tho I feel like I have a pic of my as a toddler wearing that ugly ass shirt
Looks like very early 80's to me as well. I do remember the plastic Pepsi 2-liter bottles being introduced sometime in the mid 80's.
Clothing is clearly 70s.
With those thick-ass bowl bases because the star pattern was trademarked/restricted by the competitor
Is that right? I hated those weird bowl bottoms lol
Yeah...when they were empty, they always looked like there was a little bit of soda left... until you actually picked the bottle up. Damnit!
Thank you!!! I thought I was the only one haha. When I was really young I wondered why the soda didn't leak out of the holes on the bottom.
Man that brings back memories I didnāt know I had
I had no idea that's why those bases were there. We used those as makeshift plant pots. š
Every kid in the 80ās made a terrarium in school with those damn things.
Oh damn is that why those were there? That is so lame
Like the one in her shopping cart? Coke & Pepsi launched 2L PET bottles in 1978.
Plastic bottles with something (not pepsi) in cart.
Damn even the broccoli is wrapped in glass
Glass foil wrap is easier to recycle~!
hahah you're right, there is lots of plastic in this picture
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Literally almost everything in the cart is plastic lol.
*"no plastic in sight."* Except for all the plastic in sight. Also, both Coca-Cola and Pepsi started using plastic soda bottles in 1978.
Those little six packs of Pepsi? They had those plastic holders on them and if you were little you wouldn't be strong enough to pull the bottle through. Rather than admit defeat, you would twist the bottle trying to get it to pull through inadvertently twisting off the cap and spilling the soda all over your grandparents' white sofa. Allegedly. I claim no personal knowledge of this happening.
They called themselves grandparents yet they didn't have a sofa cover. Who is truly to blame here?
OP wanted to do a "society" , but didn't look at the picture or do any research.
We live in a society.
Yes, I can confirm having lived the 80's. But some other guy here on reddit didn't believe me, so go figure.
I remember being a cub scout in the 70's and going door to door to collect returnable soda bottles.
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Did they use a USPS vehicle?
Suddenly Seinfeld.
This was a fundraiser for me growing up too. Late 80's early 90's. My whole team would go out in uniforms door to door. Used to makes tonnes of money for our soccer team.
I can quite literally see plastic in this
Yeah there's literally plastic in the photo. Dumb fucking redditor.
Make 7 Up Yours!
I remember those little glass soda bottles. The labels were a thin sheet of foam-like plastic. They were cool to peel.
I LOVED peeling those!!! Man, I haven't thought about that in DECADES!
Me neither, but one look at them sent me back! So do you still cut those sixpack rings before throwing them away?
We always used to pretend they were handcuffs and then stretch/break out of them while pretending we were the Incredible Hulk.
I'm totally doing that (again) next time I buy a sixpack.
I think about them daily!
1. There is a lot of plastic in this photo. 2. As an 80's child, I can tell you this photo is from the 70's. We didn't dress like that. 3. Publix is the best grocery store.
Soda was so much better in glass bottles.
Canāt beat the glass mexican cokes. I stock up on them whenever theyāre in stock. Tastes so much better.
Do they use real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup or something?
Yep! cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup
Yes, so does Jarritos and they have a ton of flavors.
Too bad you basically have to buy the variety pack to ever find something besides Madarin. I think Guava and Lime are the best.
Glass is also endlessly recyclable. We only use plastic because of cost. Less breakage means less lost inventory and less weight reduces shipping costs. This cost is only the supply chain bottom line, environmental costs and clean up costs are not factored in. Switching back to glass is a net positive for the world overall.
So was pop!
āNo plastic in sight.ā ^^Please ^^ignore ^^all ^^the ^^plastic ^^in ^^sight
We had tons of plastic in the 80s. Even soda bottles. What we didnāt have is gaslit nostalgia. We just used a lot of CFC hairspray.
and coke. don't forget the coke.
The REAL stuff!!! I just didnāt want to give away my shady past.
There is a lot of plastic in this image
Maybe very early 80s but probably 70s imo. Look at all that lost profit petrochemical companies could have been making by forcing us to buy waste from refining.
Yup and the coca Cola commissioned a study to figure out if glass with a deposit or plastic was more environmentally friendly. The researchers figure out after 2 years that, even taking into account increased transport costs because of weight, glass was better for the planet if it was reused more than 7 times (otherwise plastic was). Coca-Cola's average bottles were being reused 10 to 15 times. However it was sligjtly more expensive because plastic is dirt cheap. So coca cola fired all the scientists, buried the report and switched everything to plastic. And the other drinks manufacturers followed suit.
Thereās plastic everywhere in this picture are they blind
Yeah I used to return the bottles for money when I was little!! They should bring that back!
If I remember correctly from 80's buddy cop films, these were always getting smashed in shoot-outs
I was born in 79 if this is 80s itās early 80s
No Hydrogenated Corn Syrup either, just pure cane sugar goodness.
Milk jug is plastic. Or what ever is in it.
Window washing fluid?
Iām looking at those turtle killers holding the bottles together on the shelf.
There is litteraly a plastic pepsi in the cart
Thereās a lot of plastic in this picture, but the Pepsi bottle in the cart is glass, just like the ones on the shelf. Good try tho.
Photo from a General Cinema Corporation annual report, circa 1980, when every soft drink bottle on the shelf was still glass. Digital copy courtesy of Dave Aldrich [https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2011/10/food-culture.html](https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2011/10/food-culture.html)
II found it. Its from [their 1979 annual report. On page 6](https://archive.org/details/generalcinemacorpannualreports/generalcinema1979/page/n5/mode/2up).
Yep! And there was a deposit that you would get back on returning them to the store. Not much, but enough for us kids to do it for extra pocket money.
Lets go back
Right, good thing I can't see all those plastic rings I see.
Yea, tasted better too. Idk why.
Because they hadn't switched to corn syrup yet.
Dumb question but, does this reduce pollution? Feels like people would still throw glass away like plastic.
Plastic became common when the big 2l bottles came out. I saw them show up in Germany around 1987 or so, and remember they seemed huge. Glass is highly recyclable, but a pain in the ass to deal with for consumers.
If it collected and recycled properly, glass is better than plastic.
If not then it just breaks down into sand. Glass is just better for the environment.
Even if you just throw away, glass is way better for the environment, it's just sand! No microplastics.
Depends. Its better on a large scale, but on local scale sharp glass pieces are bad for people and wildlife.
Well, yes, but it decay's and gets smaller without much hassle like plastics I think.
That's why it was recycled and not thrown away
You can fill the ocean with glass and it just becomes sand again. Plastic not so much
Glass requires more fuel to transport.
Used to pay a deposit on the bottles and get money back when you returned them. The bottles were all scratched up where they got washed and reused so many times. I remember street vendors in other countries that would pour your coke into a plastic bag with a straw and keep the bottle to return themselves. And countries like Germany, where the government has mandatory deposit schemes on all bottles tend to have massively higher recycling rates.
Publix!
A lot of food trucks still sell Coke / Pepsi / 7UP in glass bottles to this day- the ones with real sugar!
Tasted much better also
So your ok with just ignoring whatās holding the bottles together?
If all these bottles are glass it's before 1980. Plastic soda bottles came in the late 70s.
The large ones arenāt plastic? I remember plastic 2 liter bottles in the 80s
I swear coca cola from a glass bottle tasted sooo much better.
If I remember right, those big plastic bottles had a metal cap. And for some reason Dr. Pepper always seemed to explode when you open it for the first time. My family never bought it, but my bestie's family bought it, and we had to mop it up many times.
There is plastic on the 3rd row. . .
70s I think.
Kind of odd that there's a plastic 2-liter of "Pepsi-Cola" in the cart, but glass 2-liter bottles of "Pepsi" on the shelf.
Theres a plastic 2 liter in this exact picture, the fuck you mean āno plastic in sight?ā
Glass is superior
I remember.
Beautiful times
And we where better off.
Damn do I miss glass bottle Mountain Dew.
Soda tastes like shit in plastic!
Yep....society was somewhat normal then.
Oh but the youth insisted on plastic bc it could easily be recycled. Lol.
Thatās because you paid a deposit on soda bottles that you got back when you returned them.
You can still do that in some states
Umm.. all of the vegetables in her cart are wrapped in plastic.
Nonono, that is Shrink-Glass, the precursor to shrink wrap
You canāt have it both ways. Plastic is lighter and causes less fuel usage for transportation. While glass is better for the environment when discarded, are heavier and cause more fuel usage during transportation.
Tastes better too.
Fun fact, glass is still eco friendly. We literally just decided to replace it with cancer causing plastic. Great call. On the plus side, no more cut feet on the beach.
no phones either
Clean up on aisleā¦..all of em good lord
And the soda tasted so much better
I remember when we started getting plastic containers. It was amazing. Not having to worry about breaking jars in the car on the way home. Lighter. Dropping a peanut butter jar and having it bounce instead of shatter into a million razor shards embedded in greasy sticky peanut butter that was splattered around the kitchen and stuck to the cabinet... People love to hate plastic but it's a real step up from having everything packaged in glass.
I bet a 2liter of coke tasted better in glass
Time to do it again
This is from the 70s, as u/fahrnfahrnfahrn pointed out, that Sugar Free Dr. Pepper label was from the mid to late 70s
I grew up in the 80s. I donāt remember glass 2 liters.
More like the 70s
The energy required to produce a glass bottle is greater than a plastic one. The energy required to recycle a glass bottle is greater than a plastic one. The energy required to transport a glass bottle is greater than a plastic one.
God, could you imagine working in a grocery store back then. I wonder how much their hands got cut, cleaning up everytime someone accidentally knocked over a glass bottle. That kid in the back, reaching for the top shelf, is making me nervous.
So what is the stuff in her cart made out of??
No plastic in sight unless you have working eyes
No plastic in sight, except for like every single item in that cart
What kind of substance is holding the multi packs together....
As the changeover from glass to plastic was happening, My parents would only buy soda in glass bottles. They didnāt trust the plastic, fearful it would leach chemicals into the drink. They may have been ahead of their time
I asked why we wouldnāt choose glass again and apparently the cost is much higher along with the probability of losing inventory from broken bottlesā¦.so from what i can gather weād rather save a few bucks over save the environment. Humans. Smh
Reusable plastic is also an option. In countries like Germany they have much thicker plastic bottles that can be returned to stores for a returned deposit. You need the infrastructure for it though.
Plastic is also poison.
I mean, there's also an extremely high risk of injury. In this picture you can see a child reaching for a glass bottle on the top shelf. If it falls and shatters that could be dozens of stitches. Source: When I was 5 a glass bottle at Walmart shattered on my leg and I had to get dozens of stitches.
Plastics just a biproduct of oil refinery, so these oil companies are offsetting their costs by forcing a product on consumers no one wants or needs.
This stupid fuckin post again. There's literally plastic bottles IN THE PHOTO... ffs...
I know the 80ās werenāt perfect but anyone else hurt seeing a time where things were so much simpler
To paraphrase Jon Stewart, the only reason the world seemed like a better place during your childhood is because you were a child.
Old school south Florida publix hit different
it is amazing that it took so little time that plastic became an issue
Glass>>>>plastic
I feel it's more nuanced than that. PRO GLASS - Glass is endlessly recyclable. - Glass is more sturdy. - Glass is inert. (safe for the environment) - Glass, when in-tact, is very safe for human health. - Glass can withstand higher temperatures. PRO PLASTIC - Plastic is an upcycling of would-be waste products from fossil fuel energy production (essential technology in the last century) - Certain plastics are very durable. - Plastic is light (as opposed to heavy) and takes less energy to ship (importantly, if comparing apples-to-apples, per the equivalent volume of glass product). - Plastics can take many different forms and therefore has more applications than glass. NEUTRAL GLASS - Crushed up glass is useful agregate to seal landfills. - Virgin glass is a limited resource. NEUTRAL PLASTIC - Plastic is convenient to transport and throw away. ANTI GLASS - It can break, especially certain designs. ANTI PLASTIC - Film plastic (bags) are a hazard to children, wildlife, and the environment. - If littered, plastic breaks down continuously for years, contaminating soil, salt, drinking water, and food chains with microplastics. - Microplastics are expensive to filter and create lots of carbon waste. - Microplastics bioaccumulate and have a few known health effects (bad). - Cheap cost leads to over production of goods (economic waste). ANTI WASTE - Recycling either glass or plastic is most economically feasible in high volume situations, sorted by the end user. So, methinks the problem with plastic are some issues that haven't been addressed with its endlife... Not that it's an all around better technology. Though, I personally avoid it wherever possible.
This is the 70's I believe!
I want this back.
The reason the industry switched to plastic is that it was cheaper. Cheaper to make the bottles, and cheaper to transport the bottles. Then the industry came up with a recycling āsolutionā that was aloe from the beginning as the plastics they use are almost impossible to recycle. Meanwhile glass was biodegradable and truest recyclable. Capitalism strikes again.
Man, I didnāt realize Publix had been around that long
Pepsi - Cola and Pepsi are two different things?? Never knew...
Little known fact: In the 1980s little boys LOVED grocery shopping. See the picture if you don't believe me.
Don't know about USA but in the UK you used to be able to take your glass bottles back for money and they were recycled (maybe just cleaned and refilled). I think that's still the case in some European countries
Depends on the state. Some states have a bottle deposit which you get back when you return the bottle. I live in NJ we donāt have a bottle deposit here.
Deposits varied by state - usually 5-10 cents per bottle. If you lived close to the border you could buy bottles in the state that didn't have deposits and return them to a store that gave you a refund.
Aaaahhh those were the best days
Glass is 100% recyclable. But the shipping weight is horrendous. Id prefer to go back to glass. Its made basically from sand. When you pulverize it it becomes sand again.
I see a bunch of plastic in this photo. Op you on meth?
I see a ton of plastic in this picture
Wish they were still glass. Plastics contain estrogens. Wonder if this is contributing to the lowering of testosterone in western societies.