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ELI5: how do sodas travel the country all carbonated but as soon as you get one alone and it shakes up, its flat?!

I’m confused and have been thinking of this for a while. They get shaken and dropped all across the country on their wooden pallets and in trucks and crates and are just fine. But as soon as you get one, of you shake it it gets flat! Is this like how when bicyclists ride bikes in close proximity, they use less energy or something? So maybe because all the sodas are all close together they absorb all the movement or something?! 

IDK! Lol just throwing it out there!
gpt
I would like to add that soda in its final form rarely if ever makes a cross-country trip. What happens with the big companies is they stir up the beverage base at their own place (this is JUST the flavorings and stuff), then ship *that* to the various regional bottling factories who then mix it with carbonated water, and then ship the final product out.

This is why when you see Coke and Pepsi delivery trucks, they're *always* driving a "day cab" semi, which doesn't have the sleeper area in the back. Don't need the sleeper area if you clock in make your rounds and clock out and go home each day.