“We certainly expect to lean into and invest for growth in the fourth quarter.”

In context

“You talked about where it was, Mexico and a number of parts of Asia, India, China and some of the ASEAN countries. And clearly, we got a bit better in September, some sequential improvement. I think it would be fair to say, as much as anything, that was a doubling down by the system, increases in marketing and focus and innovation from us working with the bottlers on some affordability and revenue management options and some step-ups in execution. So I don't think the environment changed markedly in September from July and August. We just got more focused on drilling down into what needed to be done and to driving the quarter. And I think, therefore, as you look out to Q4, I don't think the environment is changing that quickly. So I think we're going to have to be on the top of our game. We certainly expect to lean into and invest for growth in the fourth quarter. We have a lot of good marketing and innovation programs coming from Halloween all the way through to Christmas. So we'll be driving that and obviously executing with our bottlers. But I think, again, as you kind of hinted in the question, the environment is going to stay more or less the same, and we've got to focus on driving our own results and trying to get volume growth going into the fourth quarter, especially as we're cycling a steeper comparison versus last year. And then as we look out to '26, that's going to be a long way away from here and going through the year. Certainly, as John commented in his considerations, we certainly expect to see inflation and pricing moderate back to a more normal range. I think as we talked about on the previous call, if our long-term growth model c”