Shops selling Club/Pepsi bottles

allanb49

Ok i've noticed in recent weeks the price of soft drinks going up again by about 10c, not that anyone minds that

However.

Every now and then i used to get one of the 750ml bottles of club orange.

The one that has on the lable 25% Extra Free

Went in to get one this morning for work,

It was €1.95 while the normal 500ml was €1.69

Now i'm wondering are they allowed do that if something says X amount extra free can the shops charge more?

easyeason3

They can charge more if you're willing to pay for it.

And how empty is your life that you noticed this?

astrofool

This is the wrong forum for this.

And 25% extra free would be 625ml from a 500ml bottle.

allanb49

Must be my jewish blood that i notice it oi

Hasmunch

Are they not the pretty much the same price??

500ml for €1.69
600ml (plus 150ml Extra free) for €1.95

Shop usually charge you more when you get more product!!

Jet Black

Yes because its 600ml plus 25%extra. 500ml with 25% is 625ml.

MitchKoobski

Haven't seen a 500ml bottle of Pepsi in years!

Kintarō Hattori

€1.69 for a bottle of Club Orange is fecking expensive.

genericguy

allanb49 wrote: »

Must be my jewish blood that i notice it oi

oh no he di'in.

starbelgrade

"Wah, wah, wah... my junk food is too expensive... wah, wah, wah"

d1975

go to those euro shops you get 3 for 2 euro etc... great bargins there

NothingMan

Just pour out 125mm and pay them €1.69. Case closed. :cool:

discus

God, this is something that I was thinking about talking about on the Retail Forum I was considering petitioning for...!

It bugs the hell out of me. In my shop, club were doing a promotion so we took all those big 750ml bottles off the shelf, and sold only 500ml ones at €1. Sales went mad for the stuff - cause club products are quite nice. Then the offer stopped, and prices went up to €1.50. Signs pointed out that they were back to "regular" prices of €1.50 and still people bought them.

Now club are only supplying those gaudy, horribly bulky 750ml bottles. And no one buys them.

rant over!

lisbon_lions

easyeason3 wrote: »

They can charge more if you're willing to pay for it.

And how empty is your life that you noticed this?

How empty is yours that you lambast the op for making an observation and wanting to share it with us. :rolleyes:

rubberdiddies

Still Shocked at those prices. My local discount store charges 90c for club and coke 500ml. Fair enough it's not in a fridge but very cheap

caseyann

I dont pay attention to the amount in the bottle if i look at something and see the price imo is to high i wont pick it up anymore.
And in answer if it says free on the bottle it is meant to be free,you can buy a 2 litre for 2:20.It is a scam :mad:

OutlawPete

It's all disgraceful when you see that they can buy a crate of those bottles for a price that works out at around 22c a bottle.

eightyfish

OutlawPete wrote: »

It's all disgraceful when you see that they can buy a crate of those bottles for a price that works out at around 22c a bottle.

No they can't. That'd be a 700% markup. No supermarket gets anything like that on club orange. On the imported cans that you see in small newsagents and chippers, possibly, but Club is an Irish-only product so not importable.

rubberdiddies

there is a similar thread on this in the consumer forum. people there saying the wholesale price is around 60 to 65c + VAT for the 500ml

eightyfish

rubberdiddies wrote: »

there is a similar thread on this in the consumer forum. people there saying the wholesale price is around 60 to 65c + VAT for the 500ml

Taking the prices quoted earlier a 500ml is €1.36 ex vat, and this cost of €0.625 makes it about 100% markup. Still seems quite high. I would have thought it was about 30%, but I've nothing to base that on. I have a friend who works in this area, I'll see if I can find out.

kfallon

I used to love the old pepsi, not tasted it since it changed packaging and taste years ago.

You can't beat club orange or rock shandy tho, worth every cent!

rubberdiddies

eightyfish wrote: »

Taking the prices quoted earlier a 500ml is €1.36 ex vat, and this cost of €0.625 makes it about 100% markup. Still seems quite high. I would have thought it was about 30%, but I've nothing to base that on. I have a friend who works in this area, I'll see if I can find out.

well if it was 60c the including VAT (at 21%) would be 73c cost.
Considering I pay 90c for it most days I'd consider anything above €1 to be high. But sure I suppose they have to factor in electricity costs for fridges etc. Still though it's profit taking because people are willing to pay that amount.

Nothing like a bottle of Club Orange though!

sashafierce

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kfallon

Why is it the coke/orange/7Up in cans is really nice, then the 500ml tastes a little different, then the 2L bottles are not quite as nice (tho still nice obviously!). I know it means more money if someone was to buy 6 cans instead of a 2L bottle so that's prob why but I thought all cans/bottles would just have the same tasting stuff in it! There are little differences.

Also is it just me (cue the "It is you!" responses) or does a 2L bottle of coke go flat very quickly?

eightyfish

rubberdiddies wrote: »

Nothing like a bottle of Club Orange though!

+1.

For some reason I think Coke tastes better from a can, but Club tastes better from a bottle.

kfallon

A can of coke of club orange is the business! Bottles not as nice imo

OutlawPete

eightyfish wrote: »

No they can't. That'd be a 700% markup. No supermarket gets anything like that on club orange. On the imported cans that you see in small newsagents and chippers, possibly, but Club is an Irish-only product so not importable.

I worked in Musgraves.

You'd be shocked at the prices paid for soft drinks when bought in bulk.

eightyfish wrote: »

Taking the prices quoted earlier a 500ml is €1.36 ex vat, and this cost of €0.625 makes it about 100% markup. Still seems quite high. I would have thought it was about 30%, but I've nothing to base that on. I have a friend who works in this area, I'll see if I can find out.

The prices change on bulk buying.

Sure you can get a 24 pack of 330ml cans and 500ml bottles in the Supermarket for the prices your going on.

Do you really think they are selling at cost price?

When a supermarket buys a pallet of 500ml bottles for instance, they are getting them at around €7 per 24.

That's why small mom and pop stores can't compete.

Have you never been in Tesco's when all of a sudden they start selling two 2lrs bottles of the price of one?

Again, they don't sell stuff at cost price, they say they do, but they don't.

Milk is even worse.

A farmer is lucky to see 4c per ltr of milk they supply.

The supermarket will then sell that ltr for €1.

eightyfish

OutlawPete wrote: »

I worked in Musgraves.

I'll take it that you know your stuff then!

(except for the milk. according the the times, a farmer get about 35c per litre of raw unprocessed milk. something like that. that's presuming they know what they're talking about, which they possibly don't.)

eightyfish

OutlawPete wrote: »

Have you never been in Tesco's when all of a sudden they start selling two 2lrs bottles of the price of one?

It was my understanding that offers like that were funded by the manufacturer. IE Club want to run a 241 promotion to promote the brand. The shop buy the bottles at the normal price, and then Club refund them on 1/2 of the bottles sold.

clived2

easyeason3 wrote: »

They can charge more if you're willing to pay for it.

And how empty is your life that you noticed this?

lisbon_lions wrote: »

How empty is yours that you lambast the op for making an observation and wanting to share it with us. :rolleyes:

How empty is your life for lambasting the lambastee for lambasting the op

OutlawPete

eightyfish wrote: »

It was my understanding that offers like that were funded by the manufacturer. IE Club want to run a 241 promotion to promote the brand. The shop buy the bottles at the normal price, and then Club refund them on 1/2 of the bottles sold.

Most of time it is just extra stock.

In Musgraves we would just get stuff from companies and told to sell at half what they would normally go for.

If sales are low it can cost them to hang on to stock in the warehouses.

Also, Supermarkets also get left with excess stock and will want to shift them fast.

To complete the circle, Cash & Carry's also would get stuck with excess stock and would slash prices to make room.

Water was the worst when I worked there though.

The shops would sell Ballygowan bottles for five or six times what they were buying them from us for.

Back in the 90's, people were Mineral water mad, still are maybe.

Retrovertigo

Just do this next time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWtQW8vAslc

Edit: Cheers Eightyfish!

eightyfish

Retrovertigo wrote: »

Edit: Can't seem to link the video correctly for some reason.

Just put the video code - JWtQW8vAslc - between the youtube tags.

eightyfish

rubberdiddies wrote: »

there is a similar thread on this in the consumer forum. people there saying the wholesale price is around 60 to 65c + VAT for the 500ml

I have it off the grapevine that this is accurate.

OutlawPete wrote: »

Back in the 90's, people were Mineral water mad, still are maybe.

It's mental. I don't understand why people buy bottled water. This is worth a read.