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Consumers are switching to water as they avoid sugary beverages

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Re: Consumers are switching to water as they avoid sugary beverages

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Post by TylerE »

joezydeco wrote: post #5
wavesounds wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uh where are you buying your La Croix? They are the same price on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Croix-Naturally-Essenced-Sparkling-Va... https://www.amazon.com/Coca-Cola-24-12-Fl-Cans/dp/B0012QO8AY... Edit: As people pointed out Amazon has shitty prices on these things. Still in my experience La Croix is about the same price as Coke when you compare them both on sale or both not on sale.

Well, I'm certainly not buying it from here. $21 for a case of Coke? When they're on sale I can find cans of La Croix Grapefruit 12oz for about $4/8pk ($0.50/can). And I just bought Coke 12oz cans on sale for $2.25/12pk ($0.1875/can).

Yeah, that's a pretty horrible price. Usually at least one of the local pharmacy or gas stations will be running a special on coke along the lines of 3x 12pk for $12 or so.

Even at full retail a 12er is usually something like $6.99

Re: Consumers are switching to water as they avoid sugary beverages

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Post by AlexandrB »

TylerE wrote: post #7
semi-extrinsic wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apart from signalling that you have too much money and don't give a crap about the environment, why would anyone drinking just water buy bottled water every day instead of a Camelbak or Nalgene or Bobble bottle once a decade, and then drink tap water? Or even a Bkr if you're very fashion conscious? Is US water quality really that bad? Edit: and if you need sparkling water, why not get a Sodastream or equivalent?

Yeah, in many places, it's pretty bad.

I love that the American solution is not to try to bring the municipal water up to standard but to spend 10x-100x on bottled water.

Re: Consumers are switching to water as they avoid sugary beverages

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Post by Practicality »

hannob wrote: post #9

Good news. Now they should switch to tap water and it'll also be a win for the environment. (To anticipate answers: Yes, I know, in the US water often contains large amounts of chlorine and doesn't taste that good. And in poorer countries tap water is often undrinkable. But there's no good reason to buy bottled water if your water supply is reasonable, which is true for large parts of europe at least.)

"there's no good reason to buy bottled water if your water supply is reasonable"

You pretty much explained why many of us drink bottled water, since our supply is not reasonable. :)

Re: Consumers are switching to water as they avoid sugary beverages

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Post by AlexandrB »

TylerE wrote: post #7
semi-extrinsic wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apart from signalling that you have too much money and don't give a crap about the environment, why would anyone drinking just water buy bottled water every day instead of a Camelbak or Nalgene or Bobble bottle once a decade, and then drink tap water? Or even a Bkr if you're very fashion conscious? Is US water quality really that bad? Edit: and if you need sparkling water, why not get a Sodastream or equivalent?

Yeah, in many places, it's pretty bad.

> Yeah, in many places, it's pretty bad.

Can you please quantify that, because I'm still convinced it's mostly marketing [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_water_quality_in_the_...

Re: Consumers are switching to water as they avoid sugary beverages

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Post by koenigdavidmj »

joezydeco wrote: post #2

Low margin? My wife switched to La Croix which seems to be the new popular water drink around here. It's easily 3x the price of Coke.

Consider getting a carbonator (such as the Sodastream) and whatever she wants for her own flavoring. The occasional CO_2 cartridge and squeezing out a slice of lime is likely cheaper.

Re: Consumers are switching to water as they avoid sugary beverages

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Post by rbjorklin »

AlexandrB wrote: post #12
TylerE wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, in many places, it's pretty bad.

I love that the American solution is not to try to bring the municipal water up to standard but to spend 10x-100x on bottled water.

The government is evil and companies can do no wrong ;)

Re: Consumers are switching to water as they avoid sugary beverages

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Post by calgoo »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #14
bluedino wrote: post #8

Restaurants have to be mad about this.

In the UK tap water is free anywhere they serve alcohol, so yup.

You can get free tap water at mostly any restaurant in Sweden. Most will give it without you being a customer, and its really good. Its one of the things I miss living in Spain, where the water is horrible (at least here in Barcelona, im sure there is good water in the mountains).
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