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November 24, 2024
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Costco’s $1.50 hot dog-soda combo to get big change

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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They’ve been a fixture at Costco for decades, drawing crowds for lunch, kid parties and date nights, with a price that hasn’t changed in 27 years. We’re talking about Costco’s $1.50 hot dog and soda combo at the food court. Last year the Issaquah-based retail giant sold 109 million combos in its 600-plus warehouses worldwide. But fans of the quarter-pound dog and 20-ounce fountain soda are in for a change. Starting in April, Costco will begin selling Pepsi instead of Coke in the food court, a switch that happened during Costco’s cola bidding process, the industry site BevNET reported Thursday. Customers will still be able to get other sodas, but […]

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
jodi@imfreedomalliance.org https://twitter.com/JodiRave

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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