Cocacola Gouging the Public

[Patranus]

People are free to buy or not buy the product based on the price. If Coke wants to try to charge more, let them. I prefer Coke to Pepsi, but I'd buy Pepsi if Coke were more expensive. Until someone holds a gun to my head and makes me buy a Coke, I don't see how it's "gouging" for me to voluntarily pay $x for Coke.

This.

 

[fstime]

Maybe it has to due to the fact that some retailers can get Coke cheaper from Costco than from Coke directly. Coke's prices are based on the area, so an affluent town gets Coke for higher prices. I think this is how it works, not sure.

 

[StageLeft]

How is a 100% luxury product's increase gouging? Answer: It's not. I love coke. It could go up to $400/can and I'd just not buy it. I'd go to Pepsi instead.

 

[Hacp]

Its too bad many of the store brand colas make me fart -_-.

 

[iGas]

Price gouging how so?

Why is that some mass produce wine cost $5 a bottle, and some mass produce cost $50 a bottle?

 

[RaistlinZ]

I switched to store brand 2L a year ago. Only costs $0.79 a bottle and quenches my thrist just as well as the $2.79 bottle of Coke. I don't have loyalty to any brand whatsoever. The only loyalty I have is to my wallet.

 

[aldamon]

Dasani is another great tasting product, it just tastes better than all the other waters on the market.

Now I've heard it all.

 

[StageLeft]

Now I've heard it all.

lol

 

[ebaycj]

It is like they are purposely causing inflation.

No, it is like they are purposely being greedy. Which, being a republican, you should understand thoroughly.

 

[Capt Caveman]

No gouging found

 

[ebaycj]

Dasani is another great tasting product, it just tastes better than all the other waters on the market.

http://www.myspringwater.com/SpringWaterInformation/LeadingWaterBrands.aspx

Dasani comes from a municipal water source. So does what most people refer to as "Tap Water". It is then filtered in a manner very similar to what most people refer to as a "Brita Pitcher".

If you're gonna buy bottled water, at least buy one that says "Natural Spring Water" and lists the source on the label as a "Spring" instead of a "Municipal Water Source".

 

[brandonbull]

Brandonbull: You either mischaracterize or totally misunderstand Mursilis' comment. How is the manufacturer's decision to raise prices an action of the government? Typical teabag reaction.

This is NOT price gouging, there is nothing essential about carbonated sugar water nor is there a scintilla of evidence of any illegal market control. This is capitalism pure and simple, the natural tension between buyers and sellers in an open market. If Coca Cola can squeeze more profit out of their product, all the more power to them. Ditto to Costco-they are also seeking to preserve and expand their profits at their end of the marketing chain, and are crying crocidile tears with their protecting the consumer nonsense.

I'm startled this even made the news-excellent negotiating tactic on the part of Costco's PR people.

He wants the price of a product raised only for the reason that it could make people fat because Mursilis knows what's best for the rest of us. Glad you didn't fully read the posts but if you had then you couldn't have made your cute "teabag" comment.

 

[waggy]

No, it is like they are purposely being greedy. Which, being a republican, you should understand thoroughly.

they are acting like a business. you know to make fucking money? how you can say its republican thing is silly.