The Pop Shoppe

The PoP Shoppe is a soft drink retailer originating in 1969 at London, Ontario, by Gary Shaw in Canada.

In the early 1980s, sales slowed, largely blamed on competition from private label grocery store soft drink brands.

A few small soft drink bottlers in the U.S. have at times sold pop using some of the millions of bottles and cases left abandoned by the closure; those were not related or authorized brands.

Today The Pop Shoppe is sold through distributors, wholesalers, big box clubs and distribution centres rather than company-owned outlets.

The stubby positioned on retail shelves next to its long-neck competitor bottles gave the appearance that consumers were getting less, and sales plummeted.