• @protist@mander.xyz
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    151 year ago

    Y’all, remember this is sugar water and even at $1.06 there’s a significant profit margin.

      • Troy
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        91 year ago

        Depends on the country. Corn syrup in everything is a distinctly American phenomenon

        • @GluWu@lemm.ee
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          01 year ago

          If you look at the picture you might be able to tell where it was taken. There are some pretty good hints.

    • Ephera
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      11 year ago

      Yeah, it certainly doesn’t seem like their production costs would increase much from inflation…

      • @moody@lemmings.world
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        111 year ago

        They don’t increase from inflation. The price increase is inflation and I think it’s an important distinction to make.

  • Soda is such a fucking profitable scam because it’s mostly water and that resource is mostly free. The syrup and carbonation should be pennies compared to what it actually sells for.

      • @0xb@lemmy.world
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        151 year ago

        Don’t know the situation in america so what you say may be true, but on some countries (developing ones where the power of the state is diminished) water is not free for everybody else, but multinational corporations get almost unlimited use concessions for their bottlers for a laughably low fee if any, drying out the area and sometimes literally leaving towns or regions with no public water left for other uses, forcing the people to have to pay for other sources. I don’t live in a place in that situation yet, but some other regions in my country are going exactly through that. In some cases, those beverages are for the american market.

        • Flying Squid
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          11 year ago

          It probably not that cheap anywhere in the U.S., but on the other hand, they probably get enough tax breaks to make up for it.

      • @WallEx@feddit.de
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        161 year ago

        Here in Germany they can extract millions of liters for a symbolic euro, that is basically free and also far from a third world country. Coke has enough power to get through with this.

  • Nick
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    151 year ago

    It’s usually very small, but here, prices must also show how much 100g/100ml of something costs

    • @ccunning@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      Where is “here” approximately?

      In the U.S. retailers are notorious for having the “unit” price of similar items being listed as (for example) $1.57/oz in one case and $2.23/count in another.

      • ChihuahuaOfDoom
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        31 year ago

        Exactly this, they will put $/oz next to $/unit next to $/lb. It’s infuriating but I still take the time to do the math.

      • @bstix@feddit.dk
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        81 year ago

        EU has a directive about it. Prices must be shown in the proper unit, including all taxes and any “before” price if it’s on “sale”.

        • lad
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          41 year ago

          Do they happen to make this kind of sales, too? sale sign but the old price is lower

          I once had a chance to tell our local pub that their Chinese New Year sale sign is incorrect. They decided to put the sign in Chinese but got confused over how the discount is written in Chinese, so they wrote a price of +50% instead of -15%.

          but why?

          In Chinese the sale price is stated as the remaining part of the original, and it is written in tens of percents (折), so the full price is 10折, and 15% discount is 8.5折, but they had a sign of 15折. Google translate seems to think 15折 = 8.5折 but I would guess that it’s just AI outsmarting itself again. Now, a real person would probably be able to guess what was meant anyway, but it’s nice to write things correctly and not rely on guesswork

          • @bstix@feddit.dk
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            31 year ago

            The specific rules are implemented in local laws, so it probably varies a bit from country to country, but generally it’s illegal to market something as a special offer unless it actually is cheaper than before. The sign says “save more”, which would be misleading marketing.

            There are other ways to work around it though. For instance by alternating between two similar products biweekly, or simply by not having that specific product before Black Friday, making it appear like a special offer even if it’s sold at full price.

            • lad
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              11 year ago

              Thanks for the info, I will now know of more schemes to try to avoid.

      • @fidodo@lemmy.world
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        41 year ago

        At least in California in grocery stores they always have a per weight tag too. Problem is that it’s not always the same weight…

        • lad
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          21 year ago

          California also has the benefit of being able to choose the more confusing convenient unit, i.e. showing price in $/ounce, $/lb, $/kg, k$/stone, ounces of gold/handful, etc.

      • GHOSCHT
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        41 year ago

        Not sure where that commenter is from, but it’s the case for Germany. Pretty useful to compare

      • Nick
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        11 year ago

        Well, since my instance is local I can just as well say that it’s Switzerland. Apparently it’s mandatory to label proces in a specific way. So far, I’ve never encountered the case that I wasn’t able to compare those prices between products of the same category.

    • @perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
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      Then you get shops like M&S where all the expensive varieties of (for example) tomato are £/kg and the cheap ones are £/unit so you can’t see the big price gap.

      • lad
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        71 year ago

        Nah, in places where you’re obliged to put the price/kg on display that would be illegal. But writing a price per unit in LARGE font and adding a really small price per kilo would be a legal, albeit shitty, move

  • @fireweed@lemmy.world
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    611 year ago

    That’s a 2.24x price increase. That’s even beyond Argentina-hyperinflation levels of increase. Are we sure this is an apples-to-apples comparison? Like, was there a sale or bulk discount that made the shorter can relatively cheaper? I’m struggling to believe a retailer would engage in such a brazen markup in a single week. (Not to say it’s not possible, but it’s extreme enough that I’m not taking the word of some random hand-written graphic on the Internet.)

    • @Sestren@lemmy.world
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      281 year ago

      I mean… I’ll regularly go to the grocery store and see soda prices vary by 200-300% week-to-week. Sure, it’s all based around “sale” value, but it amounts to the same thing. If it’s $9 for 2 12-packs one week and then $11 for a 12-pack the next week, it isn’t an invalid markup because you had to buy 2 to get the first price.

    • @WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml
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      It’s not an apples to apples comparison. This was a reddit post made by someone who went out of their way to buy things for different amounts to make ragebait.

      It’s a dumb post and it is safe to ignore it. Sadly someone reposted it here.

    • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      31 year ago

      It probably costs more to distribute the new can shape since our entire civilization’s can infrastructure is built around a standard can.

    • @Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world
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      61 year ago

      I’m more inclined to blame the manufacturer for the price increase (in this case Coke) as opposed to the retailer. Especially in this case, I kinda doubt a company as large as Coke would allow retailers to stray from the price they want by more that a few cents.

  • @Zess@lemmy.world
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    431 year ago

    Fuck corporations but I don’t believe this for a second. People are just making this shit up now. Some dude scribbles some prices on a piece of paper and this whole website loses its mind.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      I was going to say… who the fuck was paying $1.06/can for Coke to begin with? Hell, I saw one of those 32oz Big Gulp cups selling for $4 less than a week ago.

      This all just looks made up and hysterical, because Americans cannot handle not having their sugary treats.

  • @computerscientistI@lemm.ee
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    261 year ago

    Maybe you want to have a cup of tea instead? Way more cheap and healthy. Or buy some off-brand soda. It is just as much garbage as coca cola but at least it’s cheap.

    • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      41 year ago

      do other countries not have comparative price? here in sweden that’s listed right under the absolute price, e.g. a bottle of soda might cost 2 bucks and the comparative cost is 1.8$ per liter.

      my dad drives me mad because he utterly ignores that and instead manually tries to estimate the comparative price, it’s baffling

      • @apprehenticeA
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        11 year ago

        I’m in the US where it’s not mandatory. It’s up to the consumer to do the math, just like sales tax.

    • lad
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      111 year ago

      It’s not always an available option. If an ink maker deprecates old containers and starts selling smaller ones for almost the same price you can’t just buy something else if you need consistency. Coca-Cola probably thinks that you can’t just replace Coca-Cola®™© with substitutes and I know some people would agree

      • @apprehenticeA
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        101 year ago

        Well, I meant within brands. Drug packages are the worst. I’ve seen two boxes of the same drug side by side and the smaller box had more tablets. That is to say, containers can be deceptive. Look at the volume and weight of the product.

        • lad
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          11 year ago

          Have yet to see those, but I met packaging for 1 (yes, one) capsule that was about half of a phone size, looked like the usual package for 20 something tablets. In this case it could be a matter of standard package though

          But then there’s Velaxin that was cheaper in 20×75mg pack then 20×32.5mg, and this I cannot understand ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com
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    21 year ago

    We’ve had these types of cans for years and years and years where I’m from, but they were expensive before the switch too.