— Patrick Farrell Entrepreneur Magazine: You thought that Coca-Cola sold sweetened colored water, as its former chief executive once famously pronounced, but it's actually selling nothing other than happiness.
The proposed tax, a license fee on businesses selling sweetened drinks, would require owners of bodegas, theaters, convenience stores and other outlets to tally ounces sold and, presumably, pass the cost on to customers.
The tech giant is not only trying to control the bookselling industry but also the publishing world, she writes: "Amazon uses the BS Machine to sell us sweetened fat to live on, so we begin to think that's what literature is".
Once back in Salvatierra, Mr. Sánchez ekes out a living selling "snow" (sweetened, flavored crushed ice) from a cart he pedals on the street.
Similar initiatives have occurred in the remote community setting to promote healthy eating, including store shelf-talkers, cooking demonstrations, and removal of top selling sugar sweetened beverages [ 31].
In 1982, Mr. Tibbetts signed a deal to distribute Equal, the brand name of aspartame, a low-calorie sweetener, and began selling tea mix sweetened with aspartame.
For Samsung, losing out in the smartphone battle is a bitter pill to swallow: but profit from selling components sweetens it substantially.
Yet 70 years later there remains a man on a corner with a cart selling shaved ice sweetened with syrup in poisonous colors.
If voters here approve a proposal on Tuesday's ballot, Richmond will become the first city in the United States to add a tax on businesses that sell soda and other sweetened drinks, although many states already collect taxes on such drinks directly as part of anti-obesity efforts.
