Comment on The price of soda in 2017

huppakee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• stankcheez@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Regular prices for my location in the US Midwest are around $11 for a 12-pack of Coca-Cola products — that’s twelve 12oz cans. Sales are frequently run for “buy 3 (13-packs), get 3 free”.

  You can get roughly the same per-can sale price by buying flats of 35 cans from warehouse clubs like Costco every day without waiting for a sale, but the warehouse clubs don’t carry every Coca-Cola product, usually just Coke, Coke Zero Sugar, Diet Coke, and Sprite.

  Pepsi products cost roughly the same.

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  • huppakee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So that’d be $33 for 6 12-packs roughly $5,50 per pack or like 250% of the price in the image?

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    • Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In the states, $5.50 is considered a good sale now. I have seen single 12pks go for $12 not on sale.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    12oz can is 355ml very close to the 33 cl or 330ml or 1/3 liter in Europe.
    The price you state is almost $1 per can.
    Here (Denmark) we get 1 can for $0.30 when on sale, which they almost always are now, because they’ve lost sales to local brands.

    When I see people buy these at the cheap, I sometimes comment in a very soft overbearing voice: Nonono we aren’t buying American, like gently correcting a small child.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thw italian cola in the glass bottle is unreal

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        THW?

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Brio is an amazing soda with flavor of bitter orange and cola nut. But no one drinks more than a small bottle.

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  • taj@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, for a very long time I refused to pay more than $3/12 pack. Now I consider it around $5-6.

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• TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can’t tell how many are in those packs, it looks like 36, but a 24 pack is $15.37 right now. Image

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  • huppakee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s almost 400% increase, I would not consider that mildly infuriating. Yikes.

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• Rothe@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And how much is it in OPs picture? Is that the price per can, and how much was a can then?

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  • vrek@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, that was price per case. If I’m not mistaken I havent see any change in can size.

    I always thought the bottles of soda were priced even weirder. I remember buying a 20oz bottle for about 2 dollars, or you could buy a 1 liter bottle for about 2 dollars or you could buy a 2 liter for about 2 dollars. But to show that prices are made up and don’t really matter, a 1.5 liter bottle was 1 dollar…

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    • musicalphysics@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The cost to create more coke is essentially zero. The price to ship and stock the different sizes are about the same though.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  soda is practically overpriced now per can/oz.

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