Tuesday, July 15, 2014

What's in a Name?

Ok, they got me!


I would have never bought a Coca-Cola at Walmart tonight... if they hadn't put a bottle with my name on it in the check-out aisle.  I heard about this "Share A Coke" campaign a couple of months ago and started seeing the bottles and cans a few weeks ago.  

The bottles are the ones with names.  The cans have "nicknames" on them.  Yesterday someone saved a couple cans for me, so these were my first two name cans:

 

Today I had a couple more people text to tell me they were watching for name cans for me.  I don't know how many different cans there are, but I'll update this post every time I get a new one.  We'll see how many I can score in the upcoming weeks.

07/18/2014 Update - I found this Buddy on the side of the road.  "Never pick up hitchhikers," but this one I couldn't resist.


07/19/2014 Update - I saw this lying in a parking lot.  A sad thing indeed.  So now I know there is a can with "Legend" on it.  For those wondering, I did not bring this one home for my collection.


07/21/2014 Update - I visited a friend this evening who had saved six cans for me.  Nice!  "But you already have Buddy, Friend and BFF."  Yes, but the ones I got tonight each have a Six Flags coupon ad on it, making them different than the plain ones I had before.











Keep 'em coming...

07/30/2014 Update - Last night a friend dropped off a bag of Coca-Cola cans on my front porch.


After going through them, I found the three cans below that I didn't have.  I already had the version of each can with the Six Flags ad, but not the plain can.  So now I have the plain ones.


I keep seeing the same nicknames over and over, so I may have them all as of now for my area.  Sometimes new batches will come through a little later, so that's what I'll be watching for.

08/16/2014 Update - Last night I got my first Diet Coke nickname can.  And appropriately enough, it was given to me by my dad.



4 comments:

  1. Yup we get the same idea aswell heer in canada!

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  2. We had this in Australia back in 2011 aswell
    At the start of 2011 we had a 10 can share a coke series come out with things like Mum Dad Bro Sis Mate etc... then middle of the year along came bottles with names on them.. about 100 different names/bottles.
    Then come Xmas 2011 another 10 can share a coke series.. with santa + reindeer names..

    Then in 2012 Coke put out a vote online with another 100 names chosen to be made into bottles.

    Then think it was 2013 possibly early 2014, we had a huge can set released with a different year printed on each can

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    1. I didn't know Coke started the name cans outside of the US a few years ago. Last year was the first year here. Thanks for the info.

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    2. Yup quite a few countries have had the names.. apparently the Brazil names is the largest collection coke has released yet.

      This is the Australia 2011 Name series
      http://www.ad-informatica.com/davideandreani/collezione/serie2serie/au_2011_share1.jpg

      Plus ontop of these cans were bottles with peoples names on them

      The Australian 2011 Xmas Name Series
      http://www.ad-informatica.com/davideandreani/collezione/serie2serie/au_2011_share2.jpg

      And the Aus 2012 "share a coke and a song" year collection
      http://www.ad-informatica.com/davideandreani/collezione/serie2serie/au_2012_yearsCC.jpg

      This series had years spanning from 1938-2012


      (None of these photos belong to me and belong to http://www.davideandreani.com/ )

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