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04-28-2010, 12:08 PM
I started to post about this a week ago but I think I messed up and it never got posted.
Has anyone else noticed that Hansen's new logo has made it onto their soda pop packaging and cans now? I noticed it on some of their other products a while ago. But then the local Safeway stopped carrying Hansens, which was unfortunate since I really like their diet Root Beer (much better than any other diet RB's I've had, and since I've decided to quit aspartame, one of the only diet sodas I'm currently drinking). Well a couple of weeks after selling out of the old product, they brought it back, but instead of plain 6-packs like before, they are now in 8-pack cartons and with all-new logos. ($4.88 list price, ouch! But on sale for 2.88) And they added the cane-sugar root beer which was not carried before, on the shelf right next to the Diet.
Well Hansens did kind of a poor job with their packaging, the diet and non-diet look way too much alike. I grabbed an 8-pack off the shelf, and put it in my cart, only to notice it was not diet. Then I looked on the shelf and saw the one behind it there was diet, so I went and bought both. (Actually I think the diet tastes better)
After I got home from the store I looked up on Hansen's website, and no sign there of the new logo. And didn't see any mention of it around here, so I thought I'd bring it up and ask if anyone else has an opinion.
Neither logo is that great in my mind. And I think they really should do something to better differentiate between normal and diet.
-Andy
Here's the cans, old-diet, new-diet and new-regular Root Beer:
http://www.bevnet.com/bevboard/members/android-albums-misc-stuff-picture78-heres-another-comparison-hansens-old-logo-new-diet-versus-cane-sugar-cans.jpg
And the new cartons, regular and diet, new logo:
http://www.bevnet.com/bevboard/members/android-albums-misc-stuff-picture79-hansens-new-logo-makes-their-sodas-difference-between-diet-regular-not-very-well-done-difficult-tell-glance.jpg
Has anyone else noticed that Hansen's new logo has made it onto their soda pop packaging and cans now? I noticed it on some of their other products a while ago. But then the local Safeway stopped carrying Hansens, which was unfortunate since I really like their diet Root Beer (much better than any other diet RB's I've had, and since I've decided to quit aspartame, one of the only diet sodas I'm currently drinking). Well a couple of weeks after selling out of the old product, they brought it back, but instead of plain 6-packs like before, they are now in 8-pack cartons and with all-new logos. ($4.88 list price, ouch! But on sale for 2.88) And they added the cane-sugar root beer which was not carried before, on the shelf right next to the Diet.
Well Hansens did kind of a poor job with their packaging, the diet and non-diet look way too much alike. I grabbed an 8-pack off the shelf, and put it in my cart, only to notice it was not diet. Then I looked on the shelf and saw the one behind it there was diet, so I went and bought both. (Actually I think the diet tastes better)
After I got home from the store I looked up on Hansen's website, and no sign there of the new logo. And didn't see any mention of it around here, so I thought I'd bring it up and ask if anyone else has an opinion.
Neither logo is that great in my mind. And I think they really should do something to better differentiate between normal and diet.
-Andy
Here's the cans, old-diet, new-diet and new-regular Root Beer:
http://www.bevnet.com/bevboard/members/android-albums-misc-stuff-picture78-heres-another-comparison-hansens-old-logo-new-diet-versus-cane-sugar-cans.jpg
And the new cartons, regular and diet, new logo:
http://www.bevnet.com/bevboard/members/android-albums-misc-stuff-picture79-hansens-new-logo-makes-their-sodas-difference-between-diet-regular-not-very-well-done-difficult-tell-glance.jpg