When in the hell did a 2 liter bottle of soda start costing $3.00+ each?

[Anonymous]

It’s $3.50 a bottle at the Giant I shop in. But there are sales pretty much weekly for either Coke or Pepsi buy 1 get 1 free. I don’t drink it but buy it for DH. I’m hooked on Spindrift and that is pricey when it’s not on sale.

[Anonymous]

I don't usually buy it but couldn't help notice at the store its like $4 for a 2 liter sprite and root beer. WTF?!

I guess they're charge what people are willing to pay if no one pays that they would lower the price of it.

[Anonymous]

PP here those were giant prices

[Anonymous]

Soda is outrageously expensive.

It does often go on sale so you might check other stores.

[Anonymous]

I only buy cans because they can be recycled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No clue but pre covid a 12 pack of Diet Coke could be bought fur $2.50. Now they are $11 at Harris teeter.

Where are you located and how long before Covid are you talking about? In MoCo you couldn’t get 12 pack of Coke for $2.50 in 2019. Back then, 3 for $10 was the best you could do.

The best I’ve seen in the last year is 3 for $12, but that’s rare. Right now you can get 12 packs at Target for $7.99 each, with a 40% discount if you buy 3, making them less than $5 each.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No clue but pre covid a 12 pack of Diet Coke could be bought fur $2.50. Now they are $11 at Harris teeter.

Where are you located and how long before Covid are you talking about? In MoCo you couldn’t get 12 pack of Coke for $2.50 in 2019. Back then, 3 for $10 was the best you could do.

The best I’ve seen in the last year is 3 for $12, but that’s rare. Right now you can get 12 packs at Target for $7.99 each, with a 40% discount if you buy 3, making them less than $5 each.

You might have to have a Redcard, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I drink a ton of soda. People keep telling me to drink water instead. But I think it’s one’s patriotic duty to drink soda. After all, there IS a water shortage.

As long as you don't drink DC water, you will be fine. Otherwise, it's tasty, tasty lead for you.

Our dysfunctional D.C. government at work; “only the finest people.”

[Anonymous]

Soda is a luxury and is extremely unhealthy. It should be more expensive IMHO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I drink a ton of soda. People keep telling me to drink water instead. But I think it’s one’s patriotic duty to drink soda. After all, there IS a water shortage.

As long as you don't drink DC water, you will be fine. Otherwise, it's tasty, tasty lead for you.

Our dysfunctional D.C. government at work; “only the finest people.”

There is a program to replace the lead lines in DC thanks to the infrastructure bill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bidenomics + high cost of DMV living, OP.

No. Manufacturers began gauging us with high prices during Covid, ostensibly caused by shortages,and they have been rising ever since. Trump was president them and as much as I loathe trump, there is nothing a president can do about rising prices on a free market.

I was listening to a podcast the other day that pointed out that one of the reasons we are where we are on food prices is because we aren’t actually in a free market. Most of the food production categories and grocery stores are run by a very small handful of corporations who keep buying each other out. The government — either side, although the Rs are more strident and vocal — really don’t want to enforce anti-monopoly laws because ‘it’s anti-business’’. The D’s will try to put a few brakes on when it’s truly egregious (eg, Ticketmaster). Some of the big chains realize they’ve gone too far and are starting to cut prices. They will whine about increased costs or higher minimum wages, but they’re still making record profits that our tax code does not require to be put back into the business or the community to be given tax breaks. Once the ruling came down that the corporations have a duty to protect the shareholders, where we are was kind of inevitable. They took the short term supply chain disruptions that happened during Covid and ran with them and haven’t looked back. And there’s no legion of competing corporations to push the prices back down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I drink a ton of soda. People keep telling me to drink water instead. But I think it’s one’s patriotic duty to drink soda. After all, there IS a water shortage.

😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Out of curiosity, how often do folks think that prices on everyday goods should go up? Or, put another way, for how many years do you think prices should remain the same?

This is a 200% increase. People were expecting 2% per year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The "Mountain Shoutin" / "Dr. Bob" generic sodas are much cheaper now.

Get the crappy store brand soda for those asssholes. It will taste like shit but it’s probably less than $3.

[Anonymous]

Liters are soda are disgusting. People that want to drink that garbage should pay more