Why do people buy so much bottled water at the grocery store?

[Anonymous]

It’s cheap.

Nobody I know who’s worked for a city gov or contractor and seen the incompetence, the filthy pipes, the juked water testing, and/or the chemical additives drinks tap water unless they have a super sophisticated whole house filter system.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps they are addicted to microplastics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s cheap.

Nobody I know who’s worked for a city gov or contractor and seen the incompetence, the filthy pipes, the juked water testing, and/or the chemical additives drinks tap water unless they have a super sophisticated whole house filter system.

Why would whole house system be needed? For showering?

We bought a reverse osmosis system for $ 200 15 years ago and use it for drinking water. Yea, can test the water with a $10 water tester every few months to know if a filter change is needed. Its cheaper than buying tap water in bottles,

I bet half of the bottle water users don’t even recycle the bottles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps they are addicted to microplastics?

+1 I don’t know anyone who drinks bottled water anymore, but I routinely witness the same phenomenon at Costco. Must be to resell at mom & pop businesses.

[Anonymous]

Our water in the city sucks and we hardly ever use the car and walk 7+ miles a day so it is easier to toss a bottle into the purse for people and dogs.

[Anonymous]

I drink tap water when i’m out but the tap water in my house tastes gross, even filtered. That’s why.

[Anonymous]

Regularly buying bottled water instead of paying to filter tap is so short sighted.

So much plastic, huge carbon foot print in shipping water.

Surprising number of people US born who do this. I get why a person from a country/continent where the municipal beater is unsafe may buy bottled water - it’s habit. But hope they will break the habit.

[Anonymous]

what about not wanting to carry around a plastic/metal jug everywhere one goes? Bottled water is convenient... grab it, drink it, toss it... no reusable water bottle to wash/etc...

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe how many posters here are saying they do it regularly. It’s once of the worst things for the environment. I assumed it was all — people buying for an event; people who run bodegas or foot trucks or similar; or people who run landscaping businesses or similar. (I have a client who has people working out in the heat and I think they need this for osha purposes — can’t rely on workers to remembe to bring a refillable bottle.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what about not wanting to carry around a plastic/metal jug everywhere one goes? Bottled water is convenient... grab it, drink it, toss it... no reusable water bottle to wash/etc...

It’s like wearing a huge sign that says “I think my convenience outweighs anything else and I DGAF about other peolle in this world.” I really don’t know a single person that does this. There’s not a lot of things I judge but if I knew someone that did this as their regular practice, I would really think negatively of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe how many posters here are saying they do it regularly. It’s once of the worst things for the environment. I assumed it was all — people buying for an event; people who run bodegas or foot trucks or similar; or people who run landscaping businesses or similar. (I have a client who has people working out in the heat and I think they need this for osha purposes — can’t rely on workers to remembe to bring a refillable bottle.)

I think people flying around in private jets is worse than my bottled water.

[Anonymous]

At the Sam’s Club it’s the Latino community who are culturally used to bottled water. I wish they would hurry up and acclimate. It’s so wasteful.

[Anonymous]

For people who drink out of plastic bottles regularly, aren't you worried about all of the plastics you are consuming along with your water? Even if you don't care about ruining the environment, don't you worry about your own health?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the Sam’s Club it’s the Latino community who are culturally used to bottled water. I wish they would hurry up and acclimate. It’s so wasteful.

At my Costco it's all of the ignorant white men.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what about not wanting to carry around a plastic/metal jug everywhere one goes? Bottled water is convenient... grab it, drink it, toss it... no reusable water bottle to wash/etc...

It’s like wearing a huge sign that says “I think my convenience outweighs anything else and I DGAF about other peolle in this world.” I really don’t know a single person that does this. There’s not a lot of things I judge but if I knew someone that did this as their regular practice, I would really think negatively of them.

Think of all of the microplastics in their body, though. I just don't think they realize how bad it is for THEM.