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I’m happy I never developed a soda habit.
I pretty much only buy snacks and junks for parties. A normal sized bag of chips was like $7 yesterday. The smaller tostitos were labeled like $5.50.
I’d love to see some sort of general strike or mass boycott, but there’s not enough organization, and things aren’t bad enough for it to happen en masse spontaneously.
I’d love to see some sort of general strike
Same. That’s part of why we’re 50 fiefdoms instead of a single country. Makes it way harder to organize as a people and much easier to divide.
Luckily I’ve kicked soda before, so kicking it when prices ratchet up wasn’t hard. It’s just a matter of halving your consumption for two weeks straight, after which point you don’t have any withdrawal symptoms and if it’s not in your house there’s no real temptation to drink it.
Funny story, here it’s actually cheaper than in 2017, because people have stopped buying Pepsi and Coca-Cola, so they are almost constantly on sale at prices way lower than before Trump became president for his 2nd term.
Coca Cola and Pepsi need to have lower prices now than local brands to sell!
Personally I still buy a local brand, even when it’s 50% more expensive than American brands.Because fuck USA for electing Trump.
Its at least double that price locally usa by me IDK wtf you’re smokin but put it downbor pass it this way
Hot take - soda is priced correctly in 2026. It’s a luxury and is quite bad for your health.
That’s definitely one take on unfettered corporate greed.
Explain seltzer
Seltzer, or carbonated water, is water infused with carbon dioxide, creating bubbles. It can aid digestion and serve as a low-calorie alternative to sugary drinks, but excessive consumption may lead to gas, bloating, or exacerbate acid reflux in some individuals.
I just wish the reason would be a tax on sugar which is then used to subsidise more healthy options. But I don’t believe that to be the case here. :(
That’s not a bad idea. It is addictive. Tax it like alcohol and tobacco. I’ve watched a subset of diabetics scream that they need sugar no matter what healthcare tries to say about it. Tears. More often, anger and spiteful overconsumption in reaction to being told no. (A subset, not all.)
If a diabetic has low blood sugar, then they literally DO need sugar, and fast!
Yes. Agreed
So is doom scrolling on Lemmy 🙄
It’s like you want to lose elections and make sure fascism is king.
Just mind your own business, Jesus Christ.
This comparison is so ridiculous that in the end I decided not to argue against it. I can’t believe some people.
Nobody is coming for your soda. Put down the baseball bat.
President Trump making Americans healthy simply by starving them.
Mildly?
How much is it now?
Regular prices for my location in the US Midwest are around $11 for a 12-pack of Coca-Cola products — that’s twelve 12oz cans. Sales are frequently run for “buy 3 (13-packs), get 3 free”.
You can get roughly the same per-can sale price by buying flats of 35 cans from warehouse clubs like Costco every day without waiting for a sale, but the warehouse clubs don’t carry every Coca-Cola product, usually just Coke, Coke Zero Sugar, Diet Coke, and Sprite.
Pepsi products cost roughly the same.
12oz can is 355ml very close to the 33 cl or 330ml or 1/3 liter in Europe.
The price you state is almost $1 per can.
Here (Denmark) we get 1 can for $0.30 when on sale, which they almost always are now, because they’ve lost sales to local brands.When I see people buy these at the cheap, I sometimes comment in a very soft overbearing voice: Nonono we aren’t buying American, like gently correcting a small child.
Edit PS:
The price in Denmark includes 25% sales tax.Thw italian cola in the glass bottle is unreal
THW?
e is right next to w
So that’d be $33 for 6 12-packs roughly $5,50 per pack or like 250% of the price in the image?
In the states, $5.50 is considered a good sale now. I have seen single 12pks go for $12 not on sale.
Those are 12 packs which is $8.57 right now.That’s almost 400% increase, I would not consider that mildly infuriating. Yikes.
And how much is it in OPs picture? Is that the price per can, and how much was a can then?
No, that was price per case. If I’m not mistaken I havent see any change in can size.
I always thought the bottles of soda were priced even weirder. I remember buying a 20oz bottle for about 2 dollars, or you could buy a 1 liter bottle for about 2 dollars or you could buy a 2 liter for about 2 dollars. But to show that prices are made up and don’t really matter, a 1.5 liter bottle was 1 dollar…
I just buy CO2 now and make my own sodas with syrups or juices.
Soda steam still real cheap if you want to use Pepsi flavor.
Fuck that pain in the ass and fuck Israel
If that is a typo for SodaStream, just FYI that they’re an Israeli company that profits from the Palestinian genocide and has operated in the occupied West Bank.
Their machines are bulletproof and you can avoid giving them any money at all by picking one up at a garage sale or other used marketplace and using a cheap adapter to connect it to a large CO2 tank like a bar uses instead of their robbery for tiny cylinders.
I never see the offbrand ones for sale used or I’d drop the SS machine too.