Why did bottled water increase dramatically in price?

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It is funny how bottled water's marketing gimic is to have French-sounding names

Aquafina, Dasani, Perrier, Danone.

Aquellé is not a very South African name but is a South African brand.

 

[upup]

Thirsti is near Newcastle in KZN.
aQuellé is near Pietermaritizburg in KZN. The company is that German sex cult religious group where people work free

Maybe the cult members have gone on strike and the leadership now has to pay sex workers.

Know some of those people, really nice and friendly.
Diesel, tolls and safety stuff is picking up the price. I never buy those bottles, but do have a R/O at home. Was the other day in PTA, there I drank tap water.

 

[Harmonic]

Paying R1,20 or R1,50(?) a litre for drinking water at the moment in the WC

 

[bwana]

Paying R1,20 or R1,50(?) a litre for drinking water at the moment in the WC

That I could handle. Our tap water is atrocious because of the low level extraction from our dams.

We buy 25l at a time and pay R25 for it, plus the sixth is free, so we're basically paying R0.85 a litre.

 

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R23 a litre is nuts

Is Coca Cola not R20 for 2 liters? Bottled water price is coming closer to reaching parity with bottled cooldrink with it having an additional government sugar tax.

 

[Harmonic]

Is Coca Cola not R20 for 2 liters? Bottled water price is coming closer to reaching parity with bottled water with it having an additional government sugar tax.

Wtf drinks coke by the 2l? Do you want to get diabetes? Petrol is around the same price, do you want to sniff it? 1 litre of gold is probably hundred of millions.

Let's compare apples with apples. R23 a litre for water is nuts

 

[bwana]

Wtf drinks coke by the 2l? Do you want to get diabetes? Petrol is around the same price, do you want to sniff it?

The 2l bottles are reduced sugar anyway.

 

[Harmonic]

The 2l bottles are reduced sugar anyway.

Who cares. What's the use in arbitrary comparison?

 

[bwana]

Who cares. What's the use in arbitrary comparison?

Diabetics? You brought it up.

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around willingly paying R23 a litre for water.

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

Wtf drinks coke by the 2l? Do you want to get diabetes? Petrol is around the same price, do you want to sniff it? 1 litre of gold is probably hundred of millions.

Let's compare apples with apples. R23 a litre for water is nuts

1l of gold is less than R1 million

 

[Harmonic]

Diabetics? You brought it up.

True

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around willingly paying R23 a litre for water.

Me too. It's absolutely crazy. At R23 a litre, you could probably dig a hole in your backyard and boil your own water for less than that. Even given LPG prices

 

[Harmonic]

1l of gold is less than R1 million

A quick Google showed 55k usd per kg. 19 kg in a litre and that's 18 bars worth of gold. Fair enough I was an order of magnitude off

 

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Wtf drinks coke by the 2l? Do you want to get diabetes?

Lots of people. That is why they sell so many of them.

You should do the 2 by 2L double barrel chug. It's heaven.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Is Coca Cola not R20 for 2 liters? Bottled water price is coming closer to reaching parity with bottled cooldrink with it having an additional government sugar tax.

I also can’t fathom how something which is processed and has various ingredients added and a special recipe and what not costs the same as something that is literally free.

It’s such a scam.