PepsiCo CEO explains flatlining US snack volume during Q2 earnings
Ramon Laguarta, PepsiCo CEO, addresses the company’s Q2 earnings report on ‘The Claman Countdown,’ detailing strong global snack and beverage volume growth. He notes dissatisfaction with US snack performance, citing plans for affordability investments, portfolio transformation, and away-from-home growth to accelerate market presence.
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Shoppers are mourning several grocery store products this year, from a nostalgic juice staple to cult-favorite snack flavors reportedly being cleared from shelves.
Some 2026 grocery exits are confirmed, while others have been reported by food outlets and shoppers.
Coca-Cola confirmed a longtime freezer-aisle exit because of “shifting consumer preferences,” The Associated Press reported earlier this year.
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Meanwhile, PepsiCo announced last year that it planned to reduce nearly 20% of its U.S. product offerings as part of an effort to focus on products with simpler ingredients and functional benefits. Food outlets have reported that more than 20 snacks could be affected, though PepsiCo has not confirmed every individual product.
Some longtime freezer-aisle and snack and drink favorites spark nostalgia among shoppers. (iStock)
Tasting Table recently featured a list of likely discontinued items across several major brands. Here are five of the top items.
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Minute Maid frozen juice concentrates
Coca-Cola is ending Minute Maid frozen orange juice, lemonade and limeade products, which many shoppers remember fondly from childhood. The company said the move ends its presence in the frozen-can category after 80 years.
“My family would buy these to make frozen icees in the summer,” one person wrote in the subreddit r/Millennials. “Can’t believe they’re being discontinued.”
Coca-Cola will be doing away with its Minute Maid brand frozen juice concentrates this year. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
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“This is devastating. Nothing compares. My comfort drink,” another said.
Blue Bell Butter Crunch
Blue Bell’s Butter Crunch, vanilla ice cream filled with chunks of crunchy chocolate peanut butter candy, is also gone for now. The company’s own product page says the flavor “is no longer available.”
“I want them to bring back Butter Crunch so dang bad,” one Reddit user wrote in a thread devoted to Blue Bell flavors shoppers want to see return.
The 2026 grocery exits span freezer staples, ice cream flavors and chips. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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Cheese Pizza Cheetos Puffs
Cheese Pizza Cheetos Puffs returned in 2025 after a 20-year hiatus, but food outlets have reported that the flavor is now being phased out again.
The pizza-inspired puffs were among the PepsiCo cuts Allrecipes reported.
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The flavor drew mixed reviews, with some Reddit users saying it did not taste much like pizza, while another said, “I am addicted to these things.”
Lay’s Sweet Potato Poppables
Food companies are streamlining product lineups as consumer tastes continue to shift. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Lay’s Sweet Potato Poppables are another snack reportedly being removed from shelves amid PepsiCo’s broader reductions.
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The light, sweet potato-flavored snack no longer appears among the flavors on Lay’s current Poppables page. Reports have said the product is one of several Poppables varieties being discontinued, although PepsiCo has not confirmed.
“These were such a comfort food of mine,” one Reddit user lamented. Another said his girlfriend’s “heart breaks every time she goes to the store because they no longer carry them.”
Fans have taken to social media to mourn discontinued and hard-to-find grocery products. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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Smartfood Movie Theater Butter Popcorn
While some retailers may still have inventory of Smartfood’s Movie Theater Butter Popcorn flavor, fans say the flavor has become harder to find following PepsiCo’s cuts.
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“Smartfood betrayed me and discontinued their Movie Theater Butter flavor and I’m a wreck,” one Reddit user wrote.
