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Coca cola price rise
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Now £1 or more for the 1.75l rather than the two. Noticed in Poundland it's it's just 'two cans' for £1. How come it's the most expensive soft drink and do they charge as much in shops in Europe and the US? I know cash and carrys sell juice quite cheap so it must cost about less than a half a penny to make. Maybe 1p for the plastic bottle maybe somebody would have an accurate figure?
Supermarkets do soft drinks cheaper so I reckon these big companies are conning us with the high prices.
Also what's the most you have ever paid for a can? I'm sure some snack bars charge £3 a can at big events.
Supermarkets do soft drinks cheaper so I reckon these big companies are conning us with the high prices.
Also what's the most you have ever paid for a can? I'm sure some snack bars charge £3 a can at big events.
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Most I've paid for a can is 70p, least is 45p for a 330ml
What you've described is basically the visible effect of inflation.
They charge about £1.50 for a can of Coke at the car boot sales (and I'm sure more at festivals/events) but anybody with half a brain brings their own.
Are they really going to get rid of the 2L bottles?
£1 for two cans in 2014 (so 50p each) , I recall paying the equivalent of 50p for one can at a station in Paris back in 1990. Tesco's is now 42p a can or 12 for £4.25
The thing is we all want everything cheap but then complain about peoples wages
There are a number of other factors which contribute to the price difference between branded and own-label products.
1. The cost associated with the fact that major brands advertise heavily in order to retain or grow their market share.
2. The supermarkets play manufacturers off against each other in order to secure the best deal for the production of their own-label products, and manufacturers will often take a much reduced profit in order to secure the extra volume as it reduces their overall unit cost. (It's better to have the production lines running at full capacity!)
3. Supermarkets will take a reduced profit where there is a very strong brand presence (such as cola) as there needs to be a clear incentive for people to switch from the likes of Coke.
They stopped making 2L bottles months ago AFAIK.
Any that are for sale currently are stock to clear.
It's because Pepsi isn't Coca-Cola.
They spend less on marketing, and as a result people wont be willing to pay as much for it.
As somebody has pointed out, the major difference between any soft drink really is the amount of money spent on peripheral activities like that.
That's why Red Bull commands a price of £1.35 a can, yet an identical product, with identical ingredients and taste - genuinely no different mix - is less than 35p a can in Euroshopper branding.
not for much longer it won't...
It's money for old rope essentially.
Do you ever do any research before faceplanting the keyboard and posting whatever ill-informed rant appears?
Two litres of Coke at Sainsburys used to cost £2.10, the new 1.75l bottle costs £1.85. What's your point?
Quite possibly.
This is what I had in mind. It's identical to Red Bull in every way as far as I can see from the ingredients list, caffeine amount, nutritional values (about 1cal difference) etc.
It's rather ludicrous people pay what they do for Red Bull given that.
However, on the Coke situation I'm happy with either Pepsi or Coca-Cola, but I can certainly tell an inferior brand. I'm not even that fond of RC, let alone supermarket colas.
I'd agree with this, in regards to soft drinks cola is all I drink, Pepsi and Coca Cola are similar, the rest of the cola brand don't come close.
I can remember my vending machine at school selling Coke for 35p per can and that wasn't a million years ago, you could also get 2 if you managed to hit 2 buttons at exactly the same time
I've just switch to a cheaper canned drink.
That's the one I had. It does taste exactly like Red Bull.
Pepsi a quid a bottle at Tesco last time I checked, usually one or the other is on a multi-buy - even though I'm a bit of an addict I wouldn't pay £1.90+ for a bottle, own brand would have to do.
If we all did that would soon drop there prices. I imagine sales must be down a bit.
Don't Coca Cola also make the likes of Dr Pepper drinks have they also gone up?