Periodic beverage search

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I'm on a bit of a roll lately, having secured a new source of Cheerwine in suburban Philly (something that even the Cheerwine people themselves couldn't help me with) and having some leads on how to find Coke made with real sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, but I'm growing increasingly frustrated with a different beverage company.

Fuze Beverage Co. makes a variety of fruit and tea drinks packed with vitamins and herbal additives. Several of their flavors are tastier than your typical healthy-hippie premium-drink fare. My favorite so far is Blackberry Grape... and I _cannot find_ the damn thing in my area code.

Supermarket chains all carry the same four or five flavors. Target has at least one that they don't, but not Blackberry Grape. C-stores have four or five flavors. Beverage stores have four or five if they have it at all. A local pizza joint carries three. The manager of one beverage store in Berwyn called his distributor, who said that _they_ couldn't order it. I called the Philadelphia Coca Cola Bottling Co. (closest bottler according to fuzebev.com's Finder) and _their_ rep said they didn't carry it.

And yet if I go one exit to the west down the PA Turnpike, the Sheetz gas station there has it in large quantities (albeit at $1.69 a pop). SOMEONE is distributing this to the Sheetz chain, as I've seen it in several while traveling upstate, but I don't want to drive half-an-hour out of my way weekly just to pick up single bottles at retail prices.

If you've seen it outside of Sheetz, please speak up, kthxbye.