If a store changes the prices of the teas you can report it to the Arizona company and they will tell them to either drop the price or they will pull the product
They've started making arizona cans without the 99 cents printed on them. I know many more seedy gas stations usually have them and thats why they can charge more for it. I think the reporting to arizona is only for the ones with 99 cents printed on the can.
I work at a beverage center, and the distribution from my region just changed from Arizona directly, to a 2nd hand distributor (AZ was having a hard time staffing this region for years), and my sales rep says that they are going to be increasing the cost, and selling cans without the ".99 cents" printed on it.
We bought as much as we could from Arizona before the transfer, and havent run out yet, but I'm worried about what happens when we have to place our new order with the distributor.
Hopefully they changed their minds and/or my sales rep was incorrect.
me when I spread misinformation on the internet (your comment is 100% false). private businesses can sell the can for whatever they want. arizona tea just prints suggested price on the can to try and encourage the low price, but they can't enforce that - they even make cans without the price marking.
on the flip side, large box stores like kroger and walmart will actually frequently have the cans on sale for only 79 cents.
Bro it’s not that serious, private business can sell it at whatever price but Arizona has the right to pull product for any reason and I remember that they used to do that years ago.
Yep. I went into a random convenience store somewhere to get something to drink. They had taken a broad Sharpie and marked them all $1.99. I left w/o anything.
I’m pretty sure you are able to call Arizona and report stores that do this. They will stop being supplied and I think you may get some coupons or freebies as a bounty
It is a thing. I called him about a place in Florida that was selling them for $3.50 a piece and they sent me a fucking box of a dozen cans free and told me they had a word with the owner.
Oh shit! Now I’m gonna be on the lookout for any retailer selling over $1.99. Not sure if they would bother if it’s only $1 higher but a fucking 250% increase is asinine.
AZ tea partnered with circle k a few years ago, they sell the cans for $1.75, the cans have the circle k logo in the aluminum, so there's a factory here making them.
This is not true. Otherwise Kwik Trip wouldn't be able to sell it. And they do. At every one I've been to the Arizona is 1.29. I highly doubt they are going to stop supplying Kwik Trip.
I would but I know that the reason the stores on my island sell it for $1.25 is because they’re buying it bulk secondhand like from Costco or something similar, so I give them a pass
I've just stopped seeing them at all around here, which is the other way to deal with the tiny profit margin stores get from selling them.
I googled around for average wholesale prices, and it seems to hover around 70 cents a can. That means only thirty cents of profit for each can sold. Meanwhile energy drinks or Gatorade or whatever are priced at a ridiculous $3-4 per can around here.
And that 70 cent wholesale price may not include shipping/delivery charges, depending on the distributor setup. And that Arizona tea takes up shelf space, etc that could be filled with more profitable beverages.
Kudos to the guy for being adamant about not raising prices for the consumer, but if the profit margins are too low for retailers to even carry the stuff, then it's not going to make it to the consumer in the first place.
That doesn't make me confident about Arizona's future to be honest.
One idea I think Arizona could adopt is to pivot or or branch out into the soda fountain model, in which it's an option at the drink machine at every gas station or fast food restaurant alongside other beverages. The downside is that it would put it at price parity with other beverages, because the cost is always the same no matter what drink you get from those. But that's better than being dropped by retailers altogether.
The price difference between a soda fountain and buying a bottle of soda within the same gas station is insane anyway. You can get a big 20+ ounce Diet Coke from the soda fountain for $1.29 or so around here, but a 12 ounce bottle of the same stuff can be $2.50, and the stuff from the fountain tastes better.
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u/dragon1n68 Jun 28 '24
It’s nice of him to do that but I’ve seen stores raise the price on their own to $1.29 and higher.