weird economics

[cellio]

My employer provides free drinks, including soft drinks, but because ours is a small office we have to do our own buying. When supplies get low somebody goes to the store, which requires carrying cases of pop a couple blocks. Particularly during the winter this sometimes broke down, so that got us to look at options.

It feels wrong that it is cost-effective to buy our drinks from Amazon. That really shouldn't work. It can be less expensive to buy locally if there's a sale, but otherwise it's a wash -- and an Amazon box comes to our door.

Huh, weird.

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[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

When I read "For God, Country and Coca-Cola", it described how there were many regional bottling companies around the nation - syrup was manufactured centrally (and under close corporate control) and then shipped for local bottling.

I suspect that is still true today. More than likely there is fine print on your can or bottle telling you where the soda was bottled.

I'm going to presume that the are not just bottlers but also distributors, who are responsible for getting the finished product to the store (and, possibly, onto the shelf).

I've been learning a lot about how grocery/HBA distribution works, for what are probably obvious reasons.