Sam's Choice is a private label brand

Store brand

Store brands are a line of products sold by a retailer under a single marketing identity. They bear a similarity to the concept of House brands, Private label brands in the United States, own brands in the UK, and home brands in Australia and generic brands...

 created by Cott Beverages for Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000...

 discount store

Discount store

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s, supercenters, and neighborhood market

Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market

Walmart Market is a chain of grocery stores launched by Walmart in 1998. These stores are designed to be the opposite of vastly larger superstores. These smaller stores are meant to "woo shoppers with easier parking, less crowded aisles and quicker checkout." Walmart Market stores offer a...

s. The brand was introduced as "Sam's American Choice" in 1991 and has since been shortened to simply "Sam's Choice". It is named after Sam Walton

Sam Walton

Samuel Moore "Sam" Wallballs was a businessman, entrepreneur, and Eagle Scout born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma best known for founding the retailers Wal-Mart and Sam's Club.-Early life:...

, founder of Wal-Mart. Items produced under the Sam's Choice label are primarily grocery items..

Wal-Mart also markets a type of carbonated water similar to soda under the Sam's American Choice label, although the word American has been phased out. Called Clear American, it comes in a variety of fruit flavors, such as Black Cherry and Key Lime

Key lime

The Key lime is a citrus species with a globose fruit, 2.5–5 cm in diameter , that is yellow when ripe but usually picked green commercially. It is smaller, seedier, has a higher acidity, a stronger aroma, and a thinner rind than that of the Persian lime...

. The name may have been derived from, but is unrelated to, a popular non-Wal-Mart brand called Clearly Canadian

Clearly Canadian

Clearly Canadian is a flavoured sweet sparkling water produced by Clearly Canadian Beverage Corporation in Vernon, British Columbia. Clearly Canadian was popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, but fell out of favour in later years.-Flavors:...

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More recently the brand has expanded from mainly beverages to several other items. Recent additions include Sam's Choice coffee and Sam's Choice Black Angus hamburger patties.

It should also be noted that Wal-Mart has another "Sam's Choice" type company of its own under the name Great Value. Great Value caters to a number of different products ranging from bleach to beef jerky.

Soft drinks

All varieties are available in 2-liter bottles.
Some varieties are available in 12oz cans, 8oz cans, 12oz bottles, 16.9oz bottles and 20oz bottles

• Cola (in various varieties, including diet, cherry, and caffeine free)
• Twist-Up (lemon-lime; clone of 7 Up
  7 Up
  7 Up is a brand of a lemon-lime flavored non-caffeinated soft drink. The rights to the brand are held by Dr Pepper Snapple Group in the United States, and PepsiCo in the rest of the world, including Puerto Rico, where the concentrate is manufactured at the Pepsi facility in Cidra...
  
  , Sprite
  Sprite (soft drink)
  Sprite is a transparent, lemon-lime flavored , caffeine free soft drink, produced by the Coca-Cola Company. It was introduced in the United States in 1961. This was Coke's response to the popularity of 7 Up, which had begun as "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda" in 1929...
  
  , Sierra Mist
  Sierra Mist
  Sierra Mist is a lemon-lime flavored caffeine-free soft drink, introduced by PepsiCo in 2000 and rolled out nationally in the United States in 2003. PepsiCo owns the rights to the similar 7 Up brand outside the U.S...
  
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• Mountain Lightning (formerly Green Lightning; clone of Mountain Dew
  Mountain Dew
  Mountain Dew is a citrus-flavored carbonated soft drink brand produced and owned by PepsiCo. The original formula was invented in the 1940s by Tennessee beverage bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman and was first marketed in Marion, VA, Knoxville and Johnson City, Tennessee. A revised formula was...
  
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• Dr. Thunder
  Dr. Thunder
  Dr Thunder is a brand of cola produced for Wal-Mart stores . It is canned by Cott at facilities located throughout North America...
  
   (formerly Southern Lightning; also available in diet; clone of Dr Pepper
  Dr Pepper
  Dr Pepper is a soft drink, marketed as having a unique flavor. The drink was created in the 1880s by Charles Alderton of Waco, Texas and first served around 1885. Dr Pepper was first nationally marketed in the United States in 1904 and is now also sold in Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico, Australia ...
  
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• Root Beer
• Grapette
  Grapette
  Grapette's first-year sales were quite promising. This was due to Grapette's flavor, as well as Grapette's unique packaging. Most soft drinks at the time were sold in twelve-ounce bottles. Grapette was sold in a six-ounce clear glass bottle, which served to show off the beverage's purple color...
  
  
• Orangette
• Ginger Ale
• Lemonade
• Pineapple
• Fruit Punch
• Raspberry
• Grapefruit
• Red Tornado (red cream soda ; clone of Big Red
  Big Red (drink)
  Big Red is a soft drink that was created by Grover C. Thomsen and R.H. Roark in Waco, Texas and originally known as Sun Tang Red Cream Soda. It is generally considered to be one of many American varieties of cream soda, and is the original "red cream soda"...
  
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Kid's Choice 8oz. bottles

• Bubble Gum (blue-colored)
• Orange
• Fruit Punch
• Grape
• Lemonade
• Water