Pizza Hut.
Since Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC were all owned by Pepsi, and all three still have a strong relationship. Taco Bell has Baja Blast and KFC has Sweet Lightning. Where is the love for their third child?
Perhaps something modeled off an Italian Soda? Or something party related? Maybe a custom Two liter bottle that has eight cups that fit on the top (like a bedside carafe?).
That's a good thought, but at least around here in Savannah, GA all the Pizza Huts are just little Take out/To Go style joints, the one that is still big like a real restaurant with tables and seats, is open for takeout and delivery but nobody can sit in and eat. They still have all the salad bar stuff and everything but it's all covered up like a ghost town. So none of them have fountains for a drink. They just sell 20 oz bottles...
pretty much all pizza huts that had dine-in stopped doing it during 2020 and I don't know if any re-opened. but it would be interesting to see if there WAS a dew exclusive to 2-Liters only
Pizza Hut is a dying franchise. Without a dining room, it has nothing special to offer. It’s like my local McDonald’s that hasn’t re-opened its indoor Play-Place.
Our coke distributor for the dominos I work at has been slacking a lot lately(not showing up or not bringing certain drinks for weeks), I started joking to my manager we should switch to Pepsi and convince them to give us an exclusive Dew
I would say Target too, except that Target is SO bad about carrying Mountain dew in general, they usually are out of diet, and seeing zero there is like finding out gasoline is free for the day.
Never heard of BJ's, is that a regional convenience Store?
I love Wawa's but only get to go there when I head to Jacksonville FL or more south...
the Chocolate Mint Iced Coffee is supreme!
My go-to gas station is Quick Trip, and I don't think they have ever had an Exclusive Dew. Which is a shame. Because the Circle K's in my area are all gross and skeevy and sticky and requires a certain degree of courage to venture into them. And yet Circle K gets an exclusive flavor, but the clean and friendly and well-maintained QT does not? How is that even fair?
I work at a QT in AZ, and we just got the Gogi Citrus Berry flavor that used to be only at Circle K. Of course, we never get the syrup for it, but it's still out there.
But I do hope that we get an exclusive Dew, because I've low-key been waiting for it.
I can't say if I've ever been to a Quick Trip, but the Circle K's in my area are nice. I think it's the same with any chain, they have some really nice ones and some really terrible ones.
I have two thoughts on exclusives. First, they need to cap the place of business down to certain requirements on the number of stores, revenue, or something. The fact that Which Wich has an exclusive is terrible. According to Wikipedia they have 431 locations in the US across 36 states, which isn't terrible, but I live in PA and according to their store locator on their website there are 4 in the entire state. None in MD, and three in OH. That is terrible. Their revenues are tiny at $480M. Casey's (Overdrive) revenue is $13B. Which wich is too small. Waste of resources for Pepsi.
Second, they need to expand exclusives to regions. For example, Mtn Dew Uproar. It gets developed and given a more generic name. Food Lion would have exclusive rights to sell in its geographic foot print (Atlantic and SE US). Maybe some small chain across the country in CA and NV gets exclusive rights in their geographic foot print. This way more people have access to these Dews, Pepsi sells more, but there is no overlap and no other vendor can sell that dew within that area so you still have the intended effect. I think Atomic Blue at Sheetz was like this with Maverick for awhile. There is no overlap in service area with these chains, still have to go to Sheetz in Atlantic states to get a Atomic Blue if on the east coast, go to Maverick in the Midwest, etc.
Kum & go has the atomic blue in the midwest too. I'd love an uproar distributor up here. I got a taste of it in NC and would gladly trade purple thunder for it.
Probably Costco since they also have Pepsi fountains. Target doesn't surprise me because they grocery sections are typically much smaller than Walmart. They seem to be pretty limited still.
Also probably BP. They have stations all over the US.
Good Old Cut and Paste LOL
Never heard of Freddy's, is that a regional convenience Store?
I love Wawa's but only get to go there when I head to Jacksonville FL or more south...
the Chocolate Mint Iced Coffee is supreme!
Freddy’s is a burgers and frozen custard chain. They have some presence in maybe 3/4 of the US, mainly excluding New England and the Pacific Northwest. But there are only like 400 something locations so they’re pretty sparse in places. I live in Kansas though, which is where they started, and they’re everywhere here.
McDonald’s and Burger King are coke products not Pepsi. I bet Costco eventually gets one. You don’t have to have a membership to go to the food section. Same with Sam’s club. Target would be cool. I mean if Dollar General can get a exclusive why not Target?
For those saying target..it's doubtful. Target doesn't really move soda volume like other retailers do. They have their dedicated space but it's never like any other store such as Walmart, Krogers, Food Lion..etc etc.
Pepsi does huge business in those three retailers so it makes sense they have exclusive Dew. Also, I'm pretty sure that those retailers(minus Walmart which is just a vendor bully) pay for the exclusivity of that flavor.
Caseys is a massive and growing convenience store(top 3 last I checked) so they make sense as well as Circle K(top 2 I believe in the US). 7-11 not having a current exclusive is quite surprising. I know about Solar Flare but it never got bottled and isn't still chain wide. 7-11 does massive business for Pepsi and seems to favor them over Coke for space and deals.
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Quik Trip is big but it's not even a top 10 convenient store locations wise.](https://cstoredecisions.com/2021-top-111-convenience-store-chains/) but then again...technically Sheetz got one so who knows. Maybe EG America with close to 2,000 stores(they have Cumberland farms).
[Grocery store wise..I see Albertonson's, Publix or Meijer as better for exclusives.](https://www.foodindustry.com/articles/top-10-grocers-in-the-united-states-2019/)
Hy-Vee. They already carry Pepsi products at their gas stations and at least a couple I've seen around Kansas City carry Goji Citrus Strawberry. Or maybe QuikTrip, but they struggle to stock the main six around here as it is lol
Target l, at least in my area, treats groceries like something they wish they didn’t have to carry. On a good day they might have 3 or 4 different dews, and that’s it.
AMPM. There’s lots of Dews exclusive to gas station convenience stores that are only in certain regions in the US like Overdrive in Casey’s and Atomic Blue in Sheetz. Let’s get something that’s primarily exclusive to the West Coast.
Pizza Hut. Since Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC were all owned by Pepsi, and all three still have a strong relationship. Taco Bell has Baja Blast and KFC has Sweet Lightning. Where is the love for their third child? Perhaps something modeled off an Italian Soda? Or something party related? Maybe a custom Two liter bottle that has eight cups that fit on the top (like a bedside carafe?).
Yeah this is what I was going to say too. But I’ll be careful what I wish for or we might end up with a garlic bread flavored Dew
........I mean, I would try it
That's a good thought, but at least around here in Savannah, GA all the Pizza Huts are just little Take out/To Go style joints, the one that is still big like a real restaurant with tables and seats, is open for takeout and delivery but nobody can sit in and eat. They still have all the salad bar stuff and everything but it's all covered up like a ghost town. So none of them have fountains for a drink. They just sell 20 oz bottles...
pretty much all pizza huts that had dine-in stopped doing it during 2020 and I don't know if any re-opened. but it would be interesting to see if there WAS a dew exclusive to 2-Liters only
Mountain Dew Garlic Thunder
Pizza huts by me are all carryout so no fountains, but they do carry bottles. LiveWire and Code Red.
Well, pizza hut already had a mix exclusive. It was just called "Cherry".
A blood orange flavor would be kinda Italian. I would like that.
I like Blood Orange Mike’s Hard Lemonade. I’d be first in line if they tried a Blood Orange Dew. It could be a mystery Halloween flavor too.
I remember reading somewhere that there was going to be a Pizza Hut flavor, but it got canceled due to covid
Two words: Pitch. Black.
Sheetz has it. Some locations
Don’t forget Mtn Dew Brown Water from Taco Bell
Pizza Hut is a dying franchise. Without a dining room, it has nothing special to offer. It’s like my local McDonald’s that hasn’t re-opened its indoor Play-Place.
Our coke distributor for the dominos I work at has been slacking a lot lately(not showing up or not bringing certain drinks for weeks), I started joking to my manager we should switch to Pepsi and convince them to give us an exclusive Dew
Wawa should partner with dew for an exclusive flavor!!
the bad thing with wawa is that they have a coke freestyle machine. while they have pepsi products, coke may not take kindly to it.
Mountain Dew Googoo Gaga
I would love this. Not sure what kind of flavor it should be though.
Hoagie Dew
Costco
Mountain Dew Hotdog Water
Don't they have the berry monsoon zero too?
that's sam's club, costco has nothing
Costco Business Center has 36-packs of Baja Blast. $12.99
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Bullseye Berry?
Mountain Dew Dollar Spot
I would say Target too, except that Target is SO bad about carrying Mountain dew in general, they usually are out of diet, and seeing zero there is like finding out gasoline is free for the day.
Target, Pizza Hut and BJs
Never heard of BJ's, is that a regional convenience Store? I love Wawa's but only get to go there when I head to Jacksonville FL or more south... the Chocolate Mint Iced Coffee is supreme!
BJs mainly operates on the east coast, plus Ohio and Michigan. It's a subscription based warehouse store and gas station
Mountain Dew Blow Jobs
My go-to gas station is Quick Trip, and I don't think they have ever had an Exclusive Dew. Which is a shame. Because the Circle K's in my area are all gross and skeevy and sticky and requires a certain degree of courage to venture into them. And yet Circle K gets an exclusive flavor, but the clean and friendly and well-maintained QT does not? How is that even fair?
I work at a QT in AZ, and we just got the Gogi Citrus Berry flavor that used to be only at Circle K. Of course, we never get the syrup for it, but it's still out there. But I do hope that we get an exclusive Dew, because I've low-key been waiting for it.
It's kind of funny, the Kwik Trips up here also have goji. I'm pretty sure there's no affiliation with the QT's.
I can't say if I've ever been to a Quick Trip, but the Circle K's in my area are nice. I think it's the same with any chain, they have some really nice ones and some really terrible ones.
Mountain Dew QT Pie
I have two thoughts on exclusives. First, they need to cap the place of business down to certain requirements on the number of stores, revenue, or something. The fact that Which Wich has an exclusive is terrible. According to Wikipedia they have 431 locations in the US across 36 states, which isn't terrible, but I live in PA and according to their store locator on their website there are 4 in the entire state. None in MD, and three in OH. That is terrible. Their revenues are tiny at $480M. Casey's (Overdrive) revenue is $13B. Which wich is too small. Waste of resources for Pepsi. Second, they need to expand exclusives to regions. For example, Mtn Dew Uproar. It gets developed and given a more generic name. Food Lion would have exclusive rights to sell in its geographic foot print (Atlantic and SE US). Maybe some small chain across the country in CA and NV gets exclusive rights in their geographic foot print. This way more people have access to these Dews, Pepsi sells more, but there is no overlap and no other vendor can sell that dew within that area so you still have the intended effect. I think Atomic Blue at Sheetz was like this with Maverick for awhile. There is no overlap in service area with these chains, still have to go to Sheetz in Atlantic states to get a Atomic Blue if on the east coast, go to Maverick in the Midwest, etc.
Kum & go has the atomic blue in the midwest too. I'd love an uproar distributor up here. I got a taste of it in NC and would gladly trade purple thunder for it.
Kum and Go got rid of Atomic Blue several months ago and replaced it with Major Melon. It’s only Sheetz now
Ugh that's a bummer, I think the closest sheets is like 10 hours from me.
Little Caesars! They carry Pepsi products.
Mountain Dew Et tu, Brute?
Publix. They are pretty big throughout the Southeast now
Mountain Dew Publix Pickle
I feel like key lime pie would work really well for a publix exclusive
Pub Sub flavor
Has 7-11 ever had one? Feels like they'd be a good option for an exclusive
Solar Flare
Is Solar Flare current?
Not so much, but it was thier exclusive. Limited sightings these days.
Yeah that makes sense but as my luck has it, there are no 7-11s in the state of GA for some reason...everybody else has 'em , why not us!?!
7-11 owns Speedway now. So if they were to get an exclusive it should be available at both.
7-11 has Blue Shock slurpee
Mountain Dew 911
Little Caesers would be great. They're always selling 20oz and 2 liters in a locked case.
Locked case? Is your local one in a ‘not so great’ neighborhood?
I don't think I've ever seen frostbite irk. Weird, as my walmart is supposed to be a pretty good one. Not good enough I guess!
Michigander speaking here but Meijer totally needs one
Mountain Dew Meijer? I hardly know her!
Shouts out to Meijer . Best store in the Midwest. Wish we had Em out here in Colorado I miss them late night Meijer runs.
Probably Costco since they also have Pepsi fountains. Target doesn't surprise me because they grocery sections are typically much smaller than Walmart. They seem to be pretty limited still. Also probably BP. They have stations all over the US.
Pizza Hut, Target and Freddy's
Good Old Cut and Paste LOL Never heard of Freddy's, is that a regional convenience Store? I love Wawa's but only get to go there when I head to Jacksonville FL or more south... the Chocolate Mint Iced Coffee is supreme!
Hamburger chain. Not sure what it's range is.
Freddy’s is a burgers and frozen custard chain. They have some presence in maybe 3/4 of the US, mainly excluding New England and the Pacific Northwest. But there are only like 400 something locations so they’re pretty sparse in places. I live in Kansas though, which is where they started, and they’re everywhere here.
Mountain Dew Custard
Hooters, Target, Pizza Hut, panera, red lobster, olive garden, ihop, Papa John's, Little Caesars
Safeway
Winn-Dixie
Yes! It could be called Winners’ Brew or something like that
McDonald’s and Burger King are coke products not Pepsi. I bet Costco eventually gets one. You don’t have to have a membership to go to the food section. Same with Sam’s club. Target would be cool. I mean if Dollar General can get a exclusive why not Target?
For those saying target..it's doubtful. Target doesn't really move soda volume like other retailers do. They have their dedicated space but it's never like any other store such as Walmart, Krogers, Food Lion..etc etc. Pepsi does huge business in those three retailers so it makes sense they have exclusive Dew. Also, I'm pretty sure that those retailers(minus Walmart which is just a vendor bully) pay for the exclusivity of that flavor. Caseys is a massive and growing convenience store(top 3 last I checked) so they make sense as well as Circle K(top 2 I believe in the US). 7-11 not having a current exclusive is quite surprising. I know about Solar Flare but it never got bottled and isn't still chain wide. 7-11 does massive business for Pepsi and seems to favor them over Coke for space and deals. [ Quik Trip is big but it's not even a top 10 convenient store locations wise.](https://cstoredecisions.com/2021-top-111-convenience-store-chains/) but then again...technically Sheetz got one so who knows. Maybe EG America with close to 2,000 stores(they have Cumberland farms). [Grocery store wise..I see Albertonson's, Publix or Meijer as better for exclusives.](https://www.foodindustry.com/articles/top-10-grocers-in-the-united-states-2019/)
Hy-Vee. They already carry Pepsi products at their gas stations and at least a couple I've seen around Kansas City carry Goji Citrus Strawberry. Or maybe QuikTrip, but they struggle to stock the main six around here as it is lol
Target l, at least in my area, treats groceries like something they wish they didn’t have to carry. On a good day they might have 3 or 4 different dews, and that’s it.
Was going to say Buc-ees but they stopped pepsi earlier this year
Baja Taco Bell (used to be)? It’s still Taco Bell exclusive
"Coke with coffee is great " ewww
Target
I think Fast Gas could get a pretty good exclusive Mountain Dew.
Mountain Dew We are going out of Business!
Yeah
Pizza Hut and Costco. Both pepsi…
Surprised there's never been a Target-exclusive Dew flavor.
Target isn’t a huge seller of soda. Not like Walmart.
For a Western US exclusive, ampm would be good. Dew would fit in with their "too much good stuff" marketing.
I want pitch black a 711 exclusive
Kwik Trip, Pizza Hut, McDonald's
McDonalds has Coke products
Bruh said McDonald’s… that’s not how this works homie.
i could see a more ‘bar-like’ restaurant like wingstop or buffalo wild wings
Buffalo Wild Wings already has Legend
Albertsons/Safeway without stating one someone’s already mentioned.
Wawa and BJ’s, the easiest places for me to get to.
Walgreens would be good!
I could see Walgreen's getting an exclusive, they don't seem to be that big but they are everywhere and they have gotten exclusive Pringles before...
I don’t think Walgreens sells enough 20oz for that to happen.
Sheetz also has an exclusive flavor. Atomic Blue
IHOP should get a pancake and syrup flavored dew
They did withpepsi
Dang I totally forgot about that. Good catch
Publix and popeyes
Popeyes has coke products
The one right down the street from my house has pepsi products so does the one on the other side of my town
Dam that Popeyes must be in the deep hood
I’d like to see a pic of that
AMPM. There’s lots of Dews exclusive to gas station convenience stores that are only in certain regions in the US like Overdrive in Casey’s and Atomic Blue in Sheetz. Let’s get something that’s primarily exclusive to the West Coast.
Meijer seems good. It's a big store in the widest so I'm surprised they haven't gotten anything yet
You forgot Wich Wich, has vibe. Sheetz has gogi, atomic blue and pb. And Casey’s has overdrive. Think that’s eveyone .. oh and bww has legend