Originally Posted by foehn
It always cracks me up (or pisses me off, depending on my mood) to see the price of soda in machines. Currently around here you can get brand-name soda for about $1.25 to $1.50 a six-pack on sale. So why shouldn't a company sell at sale retail? I guess they really are subsidizing it though, because they are paying for the electricity to keep the cans cold, no?
The vending machines belong to a vending company. At one point the price was about .60 or .65. Don't recall. So the .25 per is a nice perk. .50 I can live with, but anything over that just breaks up a dollar and spare change is useless until you break up another dollar.
The one that makes me laugh though is the grocery store I was at recently. .99 for a 2 liter of name brand. Then the vending machine in the entry was 1.50 for a 20 oz.
The 20 oz in the store coolers at the checkout was .99.