WI : PepsiCo kept its navy and extended itself into a private military company?

The ships could be turned into Cold War museum exhibits. Tours per ship at $10 for adults, $4 for children. 10% discount for veterans. Pesi Co could take over management of some other museum ships & make up a theme park.

Museum ships are not a very good business. You need dock facilities and a lot of maintenance to keep the ships afloat and serviceable (even as exhibits, if not as mobile vessels). Alternatively, you can ground them and build a hall above them, but it would also cost a pretty sum.

Any which way, you'd need a lot of visitors constantly to make a profit.
 
Its all salesmanship. My Grandfather had a good business selling chickens to farmers. Museum ships are mostly run by nonprofits with a board of directors who are asleep at the wheel. PepsiCo would be hiring a team of experienced theme park managers & paying for a slick advertising package. & tie in numerous other attractions. The Victory Museum near Auburn Indiana is a smaller scale model of what could be done.
 
A renegade group in a landlocked nation tries to stage a coup. The subs are hired and allowed to dock and then transport over rough Terrain an enormous oil tanker sized tank of Pepsi. Instructions are that right across the border the tank is to be opened. There is so much fizzing because the Pepsi has been shaking so much during the trip an explosion sends Pepsi cascading over half of the country.
 

Carbon2846

Banned
funny that NC where Pepsi was invented is under coke control


the bastard coke confederates pushed us out of the homeland, we had to retreat without U.S support. our new bases are in new york.


Shouldn't some of Coke's land be occupied by the RC Cola guerrilla movement?

Which lands specifically? i assume arkansas and maybe missouri, but RC is mostly in arkansas ( i live there and a lot of people here drink it)
 
Depending on how detailed you want to get on making a map you could make all kinds of divisions based on regional tastes and smaller soda companies. Coke with a stronghold in the Georgia and in all the surrounding states. Pepsi based out of North Carolina doing likewise. Both having influence extending West and North. Moxie drinkers fortifying New England with only issues of MAD magazine to keep them sane. Faygo and Vernor's controlling Michigan and chunks of the Great Lakes and Midwest, cutting anyone who dares call there product anything but pop, never soda. RC Cola is also from Georgia and sprang up solely to combat Coke I believe the inventor actually was a disgruntled Coca Cola distributor angry over a licensing deal. They fight Coke and Pepsi on their own turf. Dr. Pepper and Big Red own Texas and pieces of the Southwest nominally neutral but bankrolling RC. Shasta would of course control California and pieces of the Northwest turning Mount Shasta into a fortress and quasi-religious Mecca. You could probably go as far assigning a Soda brand to each and every state if you like. Or create alliances like how Coke now owns Moxie, Faygo and Shasta being owned by the same company, or Vernors and RC being owned by Dr. Pepper. Lots of room for variations there.
 
Depending on how detailed you want to get on making a map you could make all kinds of divisions based on regional tastes and smaller soda companies. Coke with a stronghold in the Georgia and in all the surrounding states. Pepsi based out of North Carolina doing likewise. Both having influence extending West and North. Moxie drinkers fortifying New England with only issues of MAD magazine to keep them sane. Faygo and Vernor's controlling Michigan and chunks of the Great Lakes and Midwest, cutting anyone who dares call there product anything but pop, never soda. RC Cola is also from Georgia and sprang up solely to combat Coke I believe the inventor actually was a disgruntled Coca Cola distributor angry over a licensing deal. They fight Coke and Pepsi on their own turf. Dr. Pepper and Big Red own Texas and pieces of the Southwest nominally neutral but bankrolling RC. Shasta would of course control California and pieces of the Northwest turning Mount Shasta into a fortress and quasi-religious Mecca. You could probably go as far assigning a Soda brand to each and every state if you like. Or create alliances like how Coke now owns Moxie, Faygo and Shasta being owned by the same company, or Vernors and RC being owned by Dr. Pepper. Lots of room for variations there.
As someone from CT My grandfather and grandmother drank Moxie and some baby boomers I know drink it but no Gen X or later generations drink it outside of Maine lol
 
Its all salesmanship. My Grandfather had a good business selling chickens to farmers. Museum ships are mostly run by nonprofits with a board of directors who are asleep at the wheel. PepsiCo would be hiring a team of experienced theme park managers & paying for a slick advertising package. & tie in numerous other attractions. The Victory Museum near Auburn Indiana is a smaller scale model of what could be done.

Salesmanship schmalesmanship. The great majority of all museums everywhere are not a great business, most require outside support by public or private organizations to just break even. It is not people "being asleep at the wheel", either. If there was an easy solution for making museums highly profitable, there would be a booming private museum sector in this world. There isn't. And museum ships require more money for maintenance (etc) and/or bigger storage space than most museum objects do, making it even harder to make a profit than with most museums.

Now, sure, if you are a company the size of PepsiCo you could invest a lot of money into a museum and make it popular, well-known and (eventually) profitable. But then it would take many years just to earn back the initially invested money, all things considered, and even after that the annual return for investment would not be anything special. A company like PepsiCo would very likely get a much better profit for that investment in a myriad other types of business ventures, especially as the museum would continue to be a resource hog also in the future. Comparatively, then, just scrapping the ships and investing the money from that scrap metal would likely be a much more profitable proposition than trying to run a collection of museum ships.
 
Pepsi and Coca-Cola form an alliance to beat RC Cola to a lifeless pulp and then turn on each other.

Coca-Cola ftw
 

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With this, all of Pepsi’s assets are divided between the three companies. McDonalds and Walmart want Pepsi restored as a major company that can freely sell their product, while Coke wants to keep them down to ensure nothing like this happens again. Coke frees none of the companies they liberated from Pepsi, and the Cold War begins.

The Cold Beverage War, surely?
 

Khanzeer

Banned
Ah yes, the legendary vending machines that dispense a Moonpie and a RC together :)
I think coast guard is a great idea

Esp anti smuggling anti piracy duties and anti insurgency duties I think a lot of nations would benefit from it
Esp if they carry a lot more firepower than your average OPV and probably cheaper e.g petya/ mirka or grisha class

Even a few of subs modernized to accommodate special forces commandoes or frogmen
Sri Lanka can defeat the tigers years earlier with just a few of such vessels
 
I think coast guard is a great idea

Esp anti smuggling anti piracy duties and anti insurgency duties I think a lot of nations would benefit from it
Esp if they carry a lot more firepower than your average OPV and probably cheaper e.g petya/ mirka or grisha class

Even a few of subs modernized to accommodate special forces commandoes or frogmen
Sri Lanka can defeat the tigers years earlier with just a few of such vessels

Just the operating costs would be a drain of the national budget and frankly any ideas that firepower is key ti defeat smuggling and/or insurgency has long been indicated as incorrect by recent history.
 
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