• vrek@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    Several years ago mountain dew had the following prices

    20 oz - $2

    1 liter - $2

    2 liter - $2

    1.5 liter - $1

    It wasn’t a sale, they had these prices on several stores for over a year.

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      8 months ago

      Honestly kinda based

      Soda costs pennies, the plastic container is the bulk of the cost, and not much changes in plastic quantity between container sizes

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      8 months ago

      These units hurt me. For others with the same pain 20 oz is a bit over 1/2 a liter

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      20oz are more expensive per volume because they sell faster. There’s less of a demand for larger sizes typically go flat too fast for people unless they’re having a party or something, and even in that case they don’t have the convenience of being able to drink from the bottle.

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        8 months ago

        Do you leave your soda uncapped or something? I buy almost exclusively 2 liter bottles and they very rarely go flat on me. I’ll drink one over the course of about 4 days.

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          8 months ago

          No. I never had any issues with larger soda bottles. I would usually buy the 1 or 1.5 liter bottles because they were usually the best deal.

          I did some sales work for one of the local soda distributors, and it was crazy how much better the 20oz bottles did in comparison to everything else.

          It was the same with energy drinks. Most people would buy single cans for $3 when they could get a 4 pack for $10 or a 12 pack for $20.

          We would usually just open the 12 packs at our accounts because the singles simply sold better.

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        When I was in college a gas station a block from me would do incredible deals on soda 12 packs abouth once a month. Like buy one get two free. We’d stock a full month’s worth every time and basically have a soda mountain for people to rummage through

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      8 months ago

      A 12oz can was around $0.28 (when you buy a case). Today you’re lucky if you can pay $0.45.

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        I’ve had the best luck with Dollar General for affordable drinks. You have to wait for a decent sale and stock up though, and use coupons when available.

        For example: recently for Dr Pepper they had two 12-packs for $14, but you could buy three for $15 and there was a coupon for $2 off when buying three, making it $13 for three 12-packs. So you would pay a dollar less for 36 cans than you would for 24. Comes out to about $0.36 per can.

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          You know how many smokers have/had their hard line on what price would make them quit smoking? For me (a 52yo woman) that was when pop breached $5.99 a 24 pack case. I would buy it again occasionally if sale prices dipped into that range, but having crossed that line it broke my habit. The thought of $7 for a 12 pack is just painful.

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            8 months ago

            Yeah, that’s fair. I haven’t stopped drinking it, but I’m reducing how much I drink as prices increase.

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          Yeah, they’re happy to offer lower prices for people who are willing to climb barriers. It’s just a way of doing tiered pricing.