2 liter soda prices
Larry
there seems to be a price war going on,or is it loss leaders, re soda
prices especially at Albertsons. 1,59 was normal most odf the time,
then 1.29 down to .99, then .89 and .79 2 weeks ago and last week
I bought 4/$3, this was for Pepsi products and doesn't include CRV.
Won't be long until they'll be giving them away. Safeway seems to be
laggig behind with .99 the best I've seen for Coca/Pepsi brands
although Safeway is twice as far for me to go so I may have missed
some sales prices there. What's Costco prices for Coca/Pepsi 2 liter
bottles?
Larry (lro...@best.com)
Steve Wertz
Soda prices often get this low. It's makes you wonder, when
you pay $1.09 for a soda at a fast-food joint or restaurant.
I rarely buy soda unless it's for Rum & Coke's, or 7 & 7's. In
any case, I don't think CostCo would sell 2-liter bottles, 3-liter
bottles on some occasions (yes, they're still around).
-sw
Matt Ackeret
Larry <lro...@best.com> wrote:
>Well not exactly food to many of us, but have youall noticed that
>there seems to be a price war going on,or is it loss leaders, re soda
>prices especially at Albertsons. 1,59 was normal most odf the time,
>then 1.29 down to .99, then .89 and .79 2 weeks ago and last week
>I bought 4/$3, this was for Pepsi products and doesn't include CRV.
>Won't be long until they'll be giving them away. Safeway seems to be
>laggig behind with .99 the best I've seen for Coca/Pepsi brands
>although Safeway is twice as far for me to go so I may have missed
>some sales prices there. What's Costco prices for Coca/Pepsi 2 liter
>bottles?
Those Albertsons prices sound really good.. But Safeway often does
buy one get one free on 2 liter bottles.
Though I usually buy 12 packs nowadays (it's a tiny bit more expensive, but
more convenient at work).. The 12 packs (at least for Pepsi products,
since Diet Mountain Dew is about the only soda I buy nowadays except for
generic diet orange sometimes) go for either buy one get one free (normal
price something like $4.45), or 2 for $6.. I stock up at either price, and
usually don't run out before another sale.
I've wondered if you can beat these prices by buying from the bottler..
(even if you have to buy 10 cases or somesuch).. Has anyone ever spent
the 10 seconds to call up a bottler and find out?
--
mat...@area.com
mag...@rahul.net
(Matt Ackeret) put fingers to keyboard and typed:
>I've wondered if you can beat these prices by buying from the bottler..
>(even if you have to buy 10 cases or somesuch).. Has anyone ever spent
>the 10 seconds to call up a bottler and find out?
You can't. (I used to buy dozens of cases of soda a week for a
retail cookie and muffin store.) Supermarkets and Drug Stores
sell soda as a loss leader, for less than their low price bulk
purchase cost, as a way to get you into the store to hopefully
buy other items while you are there.
jc
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Bill Rubin
> Soda prices often get this low. It's makes you wonder, when
> you pay $1.09 for a soda at a fast-food joint or restaurant.
Most fast-food places don't even pay for the syrup, they get it for
free as an incentive to carry that brand. I've often heard that the
most expensive part of a cup of soda at these places is the cup
itself. The reason they get it free is to encourage you to buy it
in the store (i.e., switch from Pepsi to Coke).
Bill
Chris Knight
> Most fast-food places don't even pay for the syrup, they get it for
> free as an incentive to carry that brand. I've often heard that the
> most expensive part of a cup of soda at these places is the cup
> itself. The reason they get it free is to encourage you to buy it
> in the store (i.e., switch from Pepsi to Coke).
I'll confirm this, adding that this is why most restaurants have switched to
free refills (at higher prices). And I usually split my cup with my
girlfriend and we are never bothered by the staff.
As for soda prices at the markets, I suspect it's fairly seasonal, with
prices going up early in the summer (esp. around July 4th and other
holidays) and down in the fall...But I could be wrong (the reverse trend
would be more indicative of loss-leader activity.)
As for sodas, one thing I recently found out is that Webvan has Dr. Pepper
and Jolt in *glass bottles*! (I've never seen either in glass bottles
before.) Plus, they have Boylans (I used to get their cream soda from Cost
Plus, when they had it in cases) and other premium bottled sodas that I
would only find at Whole Foods. Given how heavy cases (I usually buy by the
case) of colas in glass bottles are, having them shipped to your door via
Webvan is a definite bonus...
Steve Wertz
> You can't. (I used to buy dozens of cases of soda a week for a
> retail cookie and muffin store.) Supermarkets and Drug Stores
> sell soda as a loss leader, for less than their low price bulk
> purchase cost, as a way to get you into the store to hopefully
> buy other items while you are there.
I heard a distributor explaining this just last night, to a
new store owner (he was asking how to get those big discounts that
the supermarkets get).
Was that muffin store, Rebecca's BTW?
-sw
Michaela Schlocker
> As for sodas, one thing I recently found out is that Webvan has Dr.
> Pepper and Jolt in *glass bottles*! (I've never seen either in glass
> bottles before.) Plus, they have Boylans (I used to get their cream
> soda from Cost Plus, when they had it in cases) and other premium
> bottled sodas that I would only find at Whole Foods.
But are they made with <gasp> cane sugar only?
Michaela
Chris Knight
> <ckn...@mail.arc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> > As for sodas, one thing I recently found out is that Webvan has Dr.
> > Pepper and Jolt in *glass bottles*! (I've never seen either in glass
> > bottles before.) Plus, they have Boylans (I used to get their cream
> > soda from Cost Plus, when they had it in cases) and other premium
> > bottled sodas that I would only find at Whole Foods.
>
> But are they made with <gasp> cane sugar only?
Nope, alas.
But they do sell Journey Twisted Vanilla which I do believe is (unrefined)
cane sugar. (At a price comparable to Whole Foods: $5 for 4 bottles.) This
brand is by far my favorite vanilla creme soda, but at the high price I get
it only occasionally...
mag...@rahul.net
<swe...@austin.rr.com> put fingers to keyboard and typed:
>Was that muffin store, Rebecca's BTW?
I worked for Rebecca for a week, in a warehouse location, when
she was developing her recipes before she opened her first store.
The stores I worked for included The Cookie Cafe on Main Street
in Los Altos and The Cookie Place on Ocean Ave. in Carmel (or do
I have the names/locations mixed up?), both in the late '80s. I
was the store manager in Carmel.