Shame....

[TinkOhio]

 

[sara74]

besides the blantant stealing going on, kids are drinking way too much soda...i see the bad effects of soda everyday...to me, that is where the lazy paretning comes in, in allowing kids to drink soda...and yes, i am judging people.

Amen to that! I can't believe the ages at which kids are drinking it and the amount these kids are consuming!

P.S. Dentist quoting dentist here - we see how bad this stuff is! Drink water!!

 

[staci]

When we were at All Star Sports in 2002 there was a woman trying to fill a big IGLOO COOLER with soda! Like the big kind that are almost like a small keg!!! The cm stopped her, and her excuse was that she had a mug in her other hand, and that she had paid for unlimited refills, so she was just taking all her refills at once!

I will never forget this crazy lady as long as I live. It was just a rediculous scene; she could hardly balance the cooler to try to fill it.

 

[widget]

Its awful what people are happy to do - and in public! I could never do that. I watched children with the refillable mugs at POR filling them with a drop of everything (playing around) and then pouring it away whilst their parents continued to half watch them and chat. What a waste. Once girl overfilled hers with ice, popped a lid on and it slipped out of her hand and went all down her princess tshirt - nice and sticky. Served her right. Her mum didnt even bat an eyelid, just took the girls tshirt off and let her go back to playing with the drinks. It was all over the floor and some poor cm had to come and clean it up - should of asked to borrow her tshirt to mop it up!

 

[goofy4tink]

Geeeezzzz... Give me a break - All I wanted to do was fill 1 little 2 liter bottle (I picked up at Wal-Mart during my grocery trip - purchasing groceries to cook a roast in my crock-pot in my room at the All-Stars - it's tough to feed a family of 8 staying in one room). It really wasn't my idea but my 250 lb. 12 year old did not want to get out of her stroller.

We were in a HUGE hurry - we had been going commando ALL DAY (it's AMAZING how many rides you can get on when only one person in your group has to stand in line while the rest push their way up when you are close to the end) We were in a hurry to get to the Poly Pool for some great swimming!

Too funny!!!!!
I would actually welcome using a barcoded sticker on each trip. Then I wouldn't have to buy so many of the darn things!!! I already have about 17 of them....and of course if I stay someplace new I just have to have that mug. I do hesitate to reuse my mugs. I think the only time I have reused one was in Dec when I stayed at Pop for one night. I had bought the mug in Aug and figured it wasn't a huge deal for the one night.
I hope they do start a barcode system. Then you could reuse the stupid things, rather than clog up my house with my 'collection'.

 

[keriannhoward]

All this talk about refillable mugs on this website makes me think one thing...people drink WAY too much soda.

I was thinking this very same thing-when doing all that walking the last thing I want to give my children to drink is soda. I want them rehydrated, not geeked up on sugar.

 

[micmacmissy]

Seriously, who is drinking this much soda??? Don't get me wrong, I love diet coke and have one every day, at lunch. But I never understood the whole refillable mug concept...

Why not just have your soda to drink when you sit down with a meal and just buy them one at a time? Are people really walking around with soda all day long?

What is the point of the refillable mug? I don't get it. <--This guy clearly has drank too much soda out of his refillable mug.

 

[Sammie]

Disney doesn't pay for the soda, it's part of the exclusive agreement with Coke. Granted, people should not just walk up and fill their bottles, but I have seen people buy one mug, then fill and pour, fill and pour, fill and pour, even into popcorn buckets! I'm not sure the CMs would/could say anything with the current set up.

And who told you they don't pay. I have friend in Food Management and according to them, they do pay.

 

[patsal]

Don't be too quicl to judge everyone--we always buy four mugs when we stay a a nonDVC resort, but sometimes teh kids get a cup from somewhere else thy just LOVE and have to use--we have been told by the CM's that so long as we have our reciept for the refillable mug than it is ok for the kids to use the ones that they like better. At Christmas DD loved the light up one from Osbourne Lights adn used it for everything. One summer DS really liked the Lilo and Stitch one from MGm so he used it. Sometimes things are not what they appear on the surface, so don't think that everyone is evading the rules.

 

[patsal]

Seriously, who is drinking this much soda??? Don't get me wrong, I love diet coke and have one every day, at lunch. But I never understood the whole refillable mug concept...

Why not just have your soda to drink when you sit down with a meal and just buy them one at a time? Are people really walking around with soda all day long?

What is the point of the refillable mug? I don't get it. <--This guy clearly has drank too much soda out of his refillable mug.

At $2.09 per single serve beverage with just five refills it pays for itself. If you are a coffee drinker, have meals at your resort or plan a day by the pool it isn't like your spending the day at teh soda fountain.

 

[**pixiedust**]

Just a friendly comment - my DH is a district manager for Coca-Cola. Disney absolutely pays for their soda.

 

[Muziqal]

And who told you they don't pay. I have friend in Food Management and according to them, they do pay.

Oh Sammie...after not checking these boards for like 6 months I find you right where you were back then...a mug debate...

 

[ducklite]

When we were at All Star Sports in 2002 there was a woman trying to fill a big IGLOO COOLER with soda! Like the big kind that are almost like a small keg!!! The cm stopped her, and her excuse was that she had a mug in her other hand, and that she had paid for unlimited refills, so she was just taking all her refills at once!

I will never forget this crazy lady as long as I live. It was just a rediculous scene; she could hardly balance the cooler to try to fill it.

As pathetic as that is, it's obscenely funny!

Anne

 

[graygables]

Just a friendly comment - my DH is a district manager for Coca-Cola. Disney absolutely pays for their soda.

Originally Posted by Sammie
And who told you they don't pay. I have friend in Food Management and according to them, they do pay.

My BIL used to work at WDW ordering food service and he's the one who told me that it was part of the contract w/ Coke in exchange for all the advertising and exclusive rights. His Dad used to work for WDW, too, and he told me the same thing, just to clarify where I got that.

 

[graygables]

Also, not everyone is drinking soda. We get the mugs and drink a lot of hot tea while we are there. It's nice to have the insulated mug to keep it warm. The point is, without a mug purchased, they shouldn't "shoplift" drinks, but with a mug purchased, there's really nothing to stop them filling a cooler..."free refills" does not have a limit.

 

[**pixiedust**]

Interesting. Maybe things have changed. I just remember DH telling me that Coke had to bid on the account (vs. Pepsi) and Coke came in with a lower price (for the reasons you stated, to get the advertising) so they got the account, but it was not at the expense of Disney getting free soda. I'll ask DH again because now I'm wondering about it.

 

[**pixiedust**]

You are right too about free refills meaning unlimited beverages, but I always would assume that would mean unlimited beverages IN THE MUG, not in a cooler or other large receptacle.

 

[frayedend]

besides the blantant stealing going on, kids are drinking way too much soda...i see the bad effects of soda everyday...to me, that is where the lazy paretning comes in, in allowing kids to drink soda...and yes, i am judging people.

Yup, I guess I am a lazy parent. It is way too hard to get my kids milk. It's so much easier to pour coke for them.

Come on, are you kidding??? If the bad effects are on the teeth then maybe the lazy parents aren't making their kids brush. But the idea that kids can't have any coke is silly. Maybe we better make sure they eat organic foods and stay away from GM foods.

Oh well ,after I buy my kid a mug and let him drink as much coke as he wants on this vacation, you can judge me and I won't really care.

 

[Carys]

An easier way to control refillable mugs might be to simply have large mug stickers.

A big red one with '06' for January 2006, a yellow one with '07' for February 2007, etc. When you purchase the mug, they check your room card for your stay length, and give you the sticker(s) you need to put on the mug. Have a cheaper rate for purchasing a length-of-stay sticker to put on an old mug from that resort - say $8.99 instead of $11.99, so you can just buy a new length of stay sticker when you return. That way the castmembers can easily see who does and doesn't have the right sticker, and it doesn't require computerizing all the drink stations at the resorts with a barcode system to enable and disable soda flow.

The only thing is that it would rely on CMs to occasionally check out the soda fountains to check for those using mugs without the right sticker, and anecdotal evidence suggests they don't stop people from using completely the wrong container anyway. But if it were enforced, it'd be an easy way to see who's playing by the rules, and would give returning people a slight discount - which always makes for happier punters.

One downside to this idea would be that mugs with stickers all over them are less 'prettier' for use back at home. I could handle that for a discounted sticker price on return though.

(Health debate aside, I unashamedly love diet coke )

 

[mickeyluv'r]

Personally, if others choose to fill their water bottles, I'm not going to let it ruin my day. I was thinking about this on my last trip - if you buy a cup- can you dump the contents into another cup and keep refilling it? Can you share your refillable mug with other family members? What then is the difference if you bypass the cup - so long as you bought one. But then I noticed something interesting....

What I found interesting, is that although I haven't been to all of the resorts, at the higher end resorts there seems to be much less of this sort of thing going on. Perhaps the food court at the GF isn't set up the same way (so that it's easy to 'steal' soda) as the mods or the All-Stars, however, all over GF, guests - not CM's who are paid to be nice - but guests -were much more polite and friendly. I've seen the same thing in the Swan/Dolphin/Bwk/YC/BC area. Adults actually instructing their kids to let disabled guests go first - instead of making rude comments while a bus driver unloaded a disabled guest from the bus, say. Perfect strangers actually asking us if we needed help finding our room (we obviously had bags with us).
It was on an inter-park bus that we heard a dad repeatedly calling his kid stupid (The kid was leaning into a stepwell near the rear door. Instead of actually helping the kid move to a safe location and protecting his son, he just kept calling him stupid.) I've observed similar things all over the parks, but hardly ever while we were in the deluxe resort areas!

It seems that one of the myiad qualities that seperates different classes of people is their level of manners. Of course not all people at GF are polite, and of course not all people at All Stars are impolite, but perhaps teaching your kids manners helps them to succeed in life. Kids who are taught manners do better in life, and tend to raise their kids the same way, continuing the success. Perhaps, kids who are not taught manners, give their kids the same lack of manners, and it is one of the things that perpetuates poverty.
In school, manners matter. Kids who are constantly disrupting the class get asked to leave, thus limiting their own educational opportunities. It's the kids who are rude that often end up in fights with their peers, and suspended from school. The ones who raise their hands regularly, are often the ones who also appear in higher track classes with higher GPA's.

So to get back to the karma point, no, maybe you won't come back in your next life as a rat, but perhaps those have manners end up in better paying careers in this life, and the more polite you teach your kids to be, the more likely they are to be successful as well.