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mexican cola better than usa cola if you want the taste.(cane sugar vs high fructose corn syrup.)
Coke zero cuz I’m too fat for this shit
Or how about neither, because cola is toxic waste.
💦 Water is the nectar of life 💦
Am addicted 😭
I understand addictions. Am addicted to Lemmy & YouTube.
Im a full time Lemmy doomscroller 🙋
Does this full-time activity pay well?
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.
This is a 2017 ad for a sale price, 20 cans, $4.99.
This is the first 20 can pack I found at today’s price. Might cost a little more than regular coke because sugar free, but it costs a shitload more than the 2017 price.
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.
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.
That’s crazy lol, no wonder diabetes is so wide spread
How did you even find a 20 pack of Coke? All I can find are 10, 12, and 24 packs.
Wtf. My local store sells 12 packs for $9, $7 on sale (US, Ohio)
Whats the point of this? Yes things were cheaper in the past.
It might be worth noting that coca colas profits were down 55% in 2017, lots of people were quitting soda at that time. Hence the sale.
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.
How much does it cost now? I haven’t had a soda in like 20 years.
It’s about 3x what it was 25 years ago.
Yeah seriously, if soda is so expensive as the post topic implies, how about you stop drinking it, then? Just drink water instead.
Imagine being mad at something like that. Deffo not a hydrohomie
Soda is not water.
I hate Reddit censorship, so instead of hydrohomie I prefer the original waternigga
President Trump making Americans healthy simply by starving them.
“And then we looked them dead in the eye and said, “Inflation is only 5% year-on-year”, and they actually nodded along like we were reading them a bedtime story.”
I’m happy I never developed a soda habit.
I pretty much only buy snacks and junks for parties. A normal sized bag of chips was like $7 yesterday. The smaller tostitos were labeled like $5.50.
I’d love to see some sort of general strike or mass boycott, but there’s not enough organization, and things aren’t bad enough for it to happen en masse spontaneously.
I’d love to see some sort of general strike
Same. That’s part of why we’re 50 fiefdoms instead of a single country. Makes it way harder to organize as a people and much easier to divide.
Luckily I’ve kicked soda before, so kicking it when prices ratchet up wasn’t hard. It’s just a matter of halving your consumption for two weeks straight, after which point you don’t have any withdrawal symptoms and if it’s not in your house there’s no real temptation to drink it.
I don’t think the US being one country would change anything. I have long held the belief that there is a population limit, not a geographic limit, to people’s ability to care that seems to hover at around 10 million.
Article’s old and the formatting is hosed but I think you’ll like this:
https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
When I was a freshman in college the bohemian vegan thing was super popular and the cool thing to do was to quit drinking soda. That’s probably the closest thing i have ever seen to some sort of mass boycott. So i guess we just need to get all the objectively attractive people to quit drinking soda and then we can peer pressure everyone else.
Fuck Pepsi. The other tortilla chip brands that are half the price are better anyway.
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.
Coca Cola and Pepsi need to have lower prices now than local brands to sell!
Personally I still buy a local brand, even when it’s 50% more expensive than American brands.Because fuck USA for electing Trump.
As an American, I wish I could buy your brand for the same reasons
Fuck USA companies and the USA super hard right now.
Plus, Jolly Cola and Sport Cola are pretty dang good.
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One might assume based on their comment that they are not from the US
Exactly, “here” is Denmark. I usually always include that when it is relevant to the understanding. But I somehow forgot this time.
Edited my comment to include “here” is Denmark.
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IDK but I’m innocent. I found it a bit confusing so I abstained:
https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/25325467
But I can see you downvoted me for answering, so thanks for that. 🤥
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.
Soda steam still real cheap if you want to use Pepsi flavor.
Fuck that pain in the ass and fuck Israel
It’s fantastic, easy to use, less waste, and you’ll get 10c soda 🤷♂️
DrinkMate makes a better machine and isn’t an Israeli corporation.
If that is a typo for SodaStream, just FYI that they’re an Israeli company that profits from the Palestinian genocide and has operated in the occupied West Bank.
Their machines are bulletproof and you can avoid giving them any money at all by picking one up at a garage sale or other used marketplace and using a cheap adapter to connect it to a large CO2 tank like a bar uses instead of their robbery for tiny cylinders.
I never see the offbrand ones for sale used or I’d drop the SS machine too.
I know. The makers used their influence to personalize the bombs themselves. They now deliver Pepsi bombs.
Is that low? I usually get Aldi xz cola, about 25p per litre.
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.
12.45€ for 15 cans here at this moment
I’ve started drinking more water which is honestly better for me. It’s hard to beat pennies per liter.
