Does anyone here actually buy brand name soda?

What is wrong with you? Why are you paying more than twice the price of something that tastes almost identical? I can understand people wanting to buy brand name clothing, even when the quality of lesser brands is the same, because of societal emphases on "status", but come on nobody's going to think less of you for drinking generic brand soda.

 

my mommy works for a vendor, I have so much soda pop there could be 10 nuclear wars and Id still have soda to drink.. not very good old soda but soda none the less...

 

sometimes "almost identical" is not good enough

I buy it but only when its a sale

 

If people realized how seldom anyone else even gives any thought to them they might realize what an enormous waste of resources brand names really are- corporations concoct imaginary value in an intangible- like status or a god-damned logo and use that to justify the practice of price gouging.

The sad thing is that so many fall for it that the practice is big business. People just don't think.

 

i buy sundrop (nothing gets close to that)

 

I think there is a difference in taste actually.

 

I like the generic corn flakes. They're about a buck per box. The name brands are in the range of a few bucks per box and don't taste any different than generic. There isn't anything better health-wise in the ingredients of the name-brand version either.

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Some tidbits of how the retail market works.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20030420/ai_n11396717/


Excerpt:

"The competition to get a product into a store is fierce. About 100,000 grocery items are available on the market, but a typical grocery store has room for about 40,000. In addition to slotting and other assorted fees, there are under-the-table payments as well, such as tickets to concerts or sporting events."


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i don't buy soda at all really.

but i buy store brand cereal

 

whats more interesting is what soda really costs.. If you see what my mom throws away, its only a week past its date, and back in the day, Soda didnt have expiration dates.. Is about production. Kinda like milk. you cant stop a cow from making milk, People need to drink it, or it gets tossed out!!!

 

I buy only brand name sodas. I actually do think you can taste the difference.

I don't consume very much soda but the kids like a pop and they each have ones they prefer.

 

we do!

 

Coffee till noon.

Tea till six.

Beer till midnight.

Theres no room in my busy schedule for cola.

 

Sometimes

 

find me a generic

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVfYxMYkWLo"]YouTube- Coca-Cola Christmas - Santa Claus

who ya gonna trust

 

I buy my soda by the single can, so it doesnt really matter

 

I don't buy much pop, it's just for a treat...when I do it's usually President's Choice. There are some gross tasting generics out there, Cott Cola is revolting.

We buy store brand cereal, only name brands on sale.

 

I buy faygo for all my juggalos and juggalettes yall

 

anyone remember GAYLORD brand soda.. That was so funny cause I was in catholic school, and we kept saying "gaylord gaylord"... haha fucking nuns..