More rough news out of California (as if the state needed any more)…
After losing a string of factories earlier this year…
And with alcohol companies exiting California left and right…
The state certainly could use some good news.
Instead, things keep worsening – in fact, Coca-Cola recently closed two plants in California.
More specifically, American Canyon just lots its Coca-Cola facility, which had operated since 1994 and employed 135 Californians.
Coca-Cola also recently shut down its distribution plant in Salinas, at the cost of another 81 jobs.
That’s over 200 hardworking Californians, out of a job despite doing nothing wrong.
It’s also emblematic of the bigger difficulties facing the soda industry, as Pepsi and Coke have both been closing facilities as they face falling demand and more government interference.
And of course, all of these changes are happening against the backdrop of the trade war, boycotts of American exports, and the resultant steadily worsening economy.
So unfortunately, there’s every reason to think these are nowhere near the only closures we’ll see in the months to come.
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