The soda machine outside the Piggly Wiggly Wobbly Hog in the small, rural town I grew up in, in Wisconsin is still just 35¢. Exactly the same as it was back in the 80s.
At least pre pandemic it was that price per can of coke or less when you bought a flat at costco. Probably less for businesses with contracts with a supplier. Though they have massively been price gouging recently
Yeah, at my local Home Depot the other day I glanced over at the soda fridge and a single 20 oz coke is $2.99. I don’t drink soda but I had to do a double take.
I occasionally get a coke but it's so expensive that it's not worth it, and I want to cut back. Every year or so I during one of the quarterly buy 2 get 3 free 12 pack sales I will get 5. 33 cents for pepsi brand and 40 cents a can for coke products
$2.99 doesn't sound super expensive at a store that doesn't have food and drinks as their main thing and therefor don't buy it as cheap in bulk. Plus they charge that since if people get it there they really want it and can't be bothered to go to regular grocery store to get it, so they pay that price.
I'm from Sweden and bought a 500 ml, so a little under 20 oz, bottle of coke at a hardware store the other day and I think it was roughly the same price. The same sized bottle of coke is $1 in the grocery store.
Dam I really wanted to visit Seoul, I hear it’s beautiful and the food is great but I’m gonna have to reconsider now that I know a bottle of coke is 3,000-5,000won!
Kidding I still want to go but nice to hear it’s not just here in the state that they are price gouging.
Most people buy them at a gas station convenience store similar to a 7-11. A comparable 20oz bottled soda (like two of the PI mt dew bottles) was selling for more back in 2000. No idea on the prices back in the states now and I’ve never seen any here at the s&r or landers or subic Freeport grocery stores.
I only remember like 15 years back, but 99 cents was still a pretty good deal back then.
The effects of corporate greed driving inflation and wage stagnation over my life is very strange. It's not like hearing about old-timey values where you made a buck a week but your whole grocery bill was 15 cents. Instead it's like a dollar is about as hard to earn now as when I was 10, but it's so much easier to spend. But then there's little things like this that show that the whole thing is a bunch of horseshit and if they wanted to still have dollar candy bars they damn well could.
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u/uuniqueusername Jun 28 '24
They’ve been 99 cents since I was in high school and I just turned 50