Sugary drink tax as an attempt to stave off a sugar tax. There were no plans to reduce the sugar content in the high sugar drinks. The plan is primarily to increase consumption of low-sugar or no-sugar drinks. sales of Coca-Cola Amatil's fizzy drinks have fallen 8.1% by volume from 2016 to 2018. The Australian Medical Association continued to press for a sugar tax. A 2016 proposal for a 20% sugary drink tax, campaigned by Educar Consumidores, was turned down by the Colombian legislature despite popular support for it. Soda is often less expensive than bottled water in Colombia. Denmark instituted a soft
Food City (K-VA-T) the Virginia Tech Hokies. In September 2016, Bristol Motor Speedway announced that Food City signed on as the title sponsor of the "Bucs at Bristol" football game between the ETSU Buccaneers and the Western Carolina Catamounts. The Bucs at Bristol game is the first Southern Conference home game for ETSU since 2003 when the school disbanded their football program. As of November 2018, K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. operates 130 retail food outlets (121 Food City stores, 7 Super Dollar Food Centers and 2 Wine & Spirits stores) in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. The chain includes over 100 in-store pharmacies