Submitted 3 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Funny story, here it’s actually cheaper than in 2017, because people have stopped buying Pepsi and Coca-Cola, so they are almost constantly on sale at prices way lower than before Trump became president for his 2nd term.
Personally I always buy a local brand, even when it’s 50% more expensive than American brands.
Because fuck USA for electing Trump.
Thats amazing. I wish the entire country here in Canada was boycotting as much as some of us. We also seriously need way more local brands that compete with coke
In Canada, flavored unsweetened sodas are the biggest sales growth. Sugar sodas are dying, finally.
Its at least double that price locally usa by me IDK wtf you’re smokin but put it downbor pass it this way
One might assume based on their comment that they are not from the US
Edited my comment to include “here” is Denmark.
As an American, I wish I could buy your brand for the same reasons
Yes I know there are many Americans that are very unhappy Trump became President.
And I really really wish you luck next time. But for now your country is unfortunately represented by madness.
Fuck USA companies and the USA super hard right now.
Plus, Jolly Cola and Sport Cola are pretty dang good.
How much is it now?
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.
So that’d be $33 for 6 12-packs roughly $5,50 per pack or like 250% of the price in the image?
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.
Yeah, for a very long time I refused to pay more than $3/12 pack. Now I consider it around $5-6.
I can’t tell how many are in those packs, it looks like 36, but a 24 pack is $15.37 right now. Image
That’s almost 400% increase, I would not consider that mildly infuriating. Yikes.
And how much is it in OPs picture? Is that the price per can, and how much was a can then?
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…
soda is practically overpriced now per can/oz.
You ever notice how graphic design is dine moving? 1987, 1997, 2007, and 2017 all would’ve had different designs for everything.
Change the price and you could convince me you took this picture yesterday.
When the logo is do iconic it doesn’t need to be rebranded or redesigned every 10 years
Is it that, or is it that they don’t want to pay for graphic designers anymore?
I’ve started drinking more water which is honestly better for me. It’s hard to beat pennies per cubic meter.
tbf, a common price for coke and pepsi 12pks was $2 going as far back as the mid 1980s. it was due to get ‘adjusted’ some in that time. what is ridiculous, though, is the $8-9+ they’re asking for today, when the price of store brands has only doubled (or less) in that same forty years.
I want Aldi to sell the syrup for their own versions, just think how cheap it could be!
20 cents a can. Not bad.
The real crime is in pre-chilled drinks. A 20oz Gatorade is about $4 here now. Minimum wage is still $7.25 per hour.
So $4,194,304?
In the US, cents would be written similar to a fraction. A small number with a line under. The “100” under the line being implied. Eventually the line just fell off, and it became commonplace that cents are either after a decimal, or the smaller number.
I’m going to stick with the exponent interpretation because it’s funnier.
I used to sell soda at work. We’d go buy cases when it went on sale and sell it to the people.
A sale in 2000/2001 would cost you ~ $0.20 a can. Stuff not on sale would be a touch over a quarter, so we sold the soda for a quarter. Never made any money, we just didn’t feel like paying $0.75 a can when the company stopped giving out free soda and put in a vending machine.
For the next few years, the sales would be closer to a quarter a can with an occasional sale being closer to 20 cents.
Costco is currently around $0.61 for Diet coke.
12 pack at the Smiths here is 11.99. WinCo is 8.98. no clue what Walmart is because I rarely shop there. The sale at Smith’s is buy 2 get 1 free. So makes it 7.99 a 12 pack.
That is from Walmart. No idea why the price is so high.
How did you even find a 20 pack of Coke? All I can find are 10, 12, and 24 packs.
20 was a fairly common size at Walmart and some grocery stores, it was usually cheaper and there was only a few types.
Name brand cola is no longer purchased in my household. I try to just not buy it period, but when I do, Sam’s cola is the drink of choice. Coke prices themselves out of my refrigerator. Even though I do think it is a superior product, no way in hell am I paying what they want me to.
Genuine question from European: do you consider $1 per can outrageous?!
20 cans for $5 is absurdly cheap for me
Americans replace water with sodas. People literally avoid drinking water.
For a 12 oz/300ml? Yeah, that gets into crazy territory.
But we’re in crazy land right now. My local Walmart? 8.50 for a 12 pack. 70 cents a can, so not full loony. But a far cry from this picture a decade ago with under 20 cents a can.
Wtf. My local store sells 12 packs for $9, $7 on sale
That’s fucking crazy. I think my 18 pack of Celsius is cheaper than that (per can) by quite a bit. I haven’t bought soda in a while but I always remember it being under $5 for a case. It’s mostly water.
That looks to me to be a 24 pack. The normal price for a 24 pack was NOT $2.22. That was not a normal sale price.
Around 2008-2015ish, in the Florida panhandle at Walmart, 12 packs of cans were usually around $3.50-$4.50 or so. I certinly wouldn’t buy them over $4.50. And soda has always had cyclical sales where you could find them advertised at many grocery stores for 4/$12. That was the price I’d stock up.
Those were the days that 2L would usually be $1.25-$1.50 and when they’d drop to $1, I’d stock up a bit.
Interestingly, Walmart has recently dropped Coke Zero 24pk to $10, and since the normal 12pk is now around $7.50-$8.00, I get the 24pk. That’s supposedly a permanent (or at least long term) price. Has been there for a month or so already. I remember stumbling across a news article about it. heh.
So while soda has gotten a lot pricier, it’s not nearly like OP’s pic suggests. To the point where I’m thinking that pricing sign must surely not be for that soda.
You’re focused too much on msrp for this category that was perpetually “on sale”. While I agree that a 24 pack likely wasn’t this price, a 12 pack was functionally $1.50 - $2 each IME. 3 for 5, 4 for 8 kind of things. Typically dependent on meeting quantity to trigger sale price though.
You lived in a very different place than I did, or are talking further back in time :)
I remember 5/$10 sales, but that goes back into the late 90s and maybe very early 2000s.
As an Australian, these prices are insane to me. a 24 pack here runs you $30 commonly, and yes our dollar isn’t as strong but that’s still twice the price even after you take that into account. Everyone here is talking about $4 USD a 12 pack like it’s expensive, but that would be nothing to pay here
Imagine being mad at something like that. Deffo not a hydrohomie
I hate Reddit censorship, so instead of hydrohomie I prefer the original waternigga
Soda is not water.
How much does it cost now? I haven’t had a soda in like 20 years.
Whats the point of this? Yes things were cheaper in the past.
I just buy CO2 now and make my own sodas with syrups or juices.
mexican cola better than usa cola if you want the taste.(cane sugar vs high fructose corn syrup.)
Is that low? I usually get Aldo xz cola, about 25p per litre.
President Trump making Americans healthy simply by starving them.
a 2L Soda Costs 1.3$ in my Country
Mildly?
Soda steam still real cheap if you want to use Pepsi flavor.
superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hot take - soda is priced correctly in 2026. It’s a luxury and is quite bad for your health.
vogi@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I just wish the reason would be a tax on sugar which is then used to subsidise more healthy options. But I don’t believe that to be the case here. :(
Zephorah@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
That’s not a bad idea. It is addictive. Tax it like alcohol and tobacco. I’ve watched a subset of diabetics scream that they need sugar no matter what healthcare tries to say about it. Tears. More often, anger and spiteful overconsumption in reaction to being told no. (A subset, not all.)
Buckshot@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
UK introduced a tax on high sugar drinks a few years ago. Most drinks changed their recipe to be under the threshold and taste weird now. Coca Cola was the only one that didn’t. I just looked and a 24 pack of cans is £15.25 for original where diet and zero are on sale at £8.50. The tax is only about £2 on that though so no idea why it’s so much more.
I pretty much entirely stopped drinking all of them though because I can’t stand the taste now so I guess the tax worked. They are lowering the sugar threshold again in a couple years so I imagine more recipe changes are coming.
ulkesh@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
That’s definitely one take on unfettered corporate greed.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I would agree with you If those prices weren’t being set by corporations raking in record profits.
raze2012@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re not wrong. But by that logic water based products would be cheaper. Which it sadly isn’t. Often the contrary.
The US very rarely uses price to incentivize good practices and vice versa.
makeshift0546@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
So it’s doom scrolling on Lemmy 🙄
It’s like your want to lose elections and have sure fascism is king.
Just mind your own business, Jesus Christ.
lokalhorst@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
This comparison is so ridiculous that in the end I decided not to argue against it. I can’t believe some people.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Nobody is coming for your soda. Put down the baseball bat.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Average American drinks 45 gallons of soda a year. Most don’t even drink water any more.
But microplastics now cause everything.
isyasad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do you have a source for that or even honestly believe it yourself?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
JFC! No wonder my doctor is surprised I don’t have type 2 despite a family history. Mfers need
Jesusto hydrate.hoch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If only they were able to create soda with zero sugar…
superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hotter take - Diet soda is even more of a luxury because it has practically zero nutritional value. There are some people who benefit from the sugar in soda as it’s calories that sustain life. Of course that’s not most people.
sanitation@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Yes. Agreed
Rooskie91@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Yeah but what about corn subsidies?