One Liter of Soda $1.25 - Two Liters of Soda $1.25. Who's Benefitting From This Smart Arrangement?

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Not I. Ususally purchased as a mixer for alcoholic purposes, I can't keep a 2 liter fizzed up enough without squeezing the air out of the bottle to keep it alive. Even this doesn't work well on a half-used 2 liter because of air pressure or something. So half of the product goes to waste. So why not just buy the 1 liter?

Got a method of keeping your fizz in? Why's the price the same? Can packaging really be more costly than the product? Your thoughts are well appreciated.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW, what's with the useless pointed bottoms of the bottles that tend to fall over?

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a conspiracy jim. they're designed specifically to frustrate and irritate you.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

And it works.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

just imagine all those bottle designers, sitting back and rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of sticky spilled soft drink all around the world. hours of fun.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

how much do you get for refunds in VT nowadays, jim?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

A staggering 5 cents. If it were a quarter, I'd go into business, picking up empties along the roadsides.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

damn, it was a nickel back in the 80s (when i vacationed there w/ my parents)! cheapos!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

could be worse, they've taken all the 2 liters off the shelves in my grocery store.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Why?

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 26 July 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

so people will pay more for soda.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 26 July 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

So the 2 and, even in the rot-gut category, 3 liter bottles might be disappearing soon at a store near me soon?

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 26 July 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 26 July 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got one of these "Fizz Keeper" pump-action bottle tops which I use to keep 2 litre bottles pressurised so that the soda doesn't go flat. It works very well.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:Zy_IeEgGh08J:www.kitchenfantasy.com/images/032368050021.jpg

― C J (C J), Monday, 26 July 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

sixteen years pass...

― xzanfar, Monday, 7 December 2020 15:44 (five years ago)

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