Oh my, *very* hot button for me. Having such a small market is bad enough, now virtually every banner and a LOT of perf is going up locally courtesy of Pepsi and the beer companies.
In fact, before we purchased our printer we asked our salesman if there was one locally we could check out. He tried to get us to go to the local Pepsi distributor, so I know at least back then they had the exact same equipment we purchased.
Everyone can argue all they want, but I agree with the fella above, at least in this market, you cannot compete with free on those sorts of items. And I don't blame the business getting the free stuff.
You know the old joke about Pepsi? If you see a Pepsi car outside a sign company it will be there a LONG time because they have that SOB tied up in the back room.
What's worse, at least for me since I'm a fitness nut, is that they hugely profit from making our population obese and diabetic, but that's a whole nother conversation.