Re: Re: people with autism
By: Mike Powell to Mortar on Tue May 12 2026 07:08 pm

I have seen $10-11 12-pack soft drinks here. That has been the going rate at Kroger now for at least 2 years. :( At Walmart they've been $7-8 per 12-pack for a while, unless you are buying the house brand.

Some grocery prices are getting crazy high. I'm surprised they're selling soda 12-packs for that much. Kroger owns some grocery stores in my area (which were formerly local chains) and that sounds a bit right - And they're one of the more expensive grocery stores for some things. They also have their own store-brand sodas which tend to be a lot cheaper (I bought a 12-pack of Diet Dr. K from them for $4.50 not too long ago, but the price may have gone up since then). If I buy soda, I've been buying house brand lately since it tends to be significantly less expensive (what name-brand soda used to cost). Sometimes I'll buy some soda from Costco because I think it's fairly good for the price.

Soda isn't a basic necessity, and I find it hard to justify spending $10 for a 12-pack of soda..

Nightfox

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Re: Prices
By: Nightfox to Mike Powell on Tue May 12 2026 10:24:45

Soda isn't a basic necessity, and I find it hard to justify spending $10 for a 12-pack of soda..

I never buy "packs", I stick to 2-litre bottles. Much more economical. If I want to carry pop with me, I'll use a 20-ounce bottle I got from a vending machine and fill that up from the 2-litre. You can get three 20-ouncers with change left over.

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Re: Prices
By: Mortar to All on Tue May 12 2026 01:18 pm

Re: Prices
By: Nightfox to Mike Powell on Tue May 12 2026 10:24:45

Soda isn't a basic necessity, and I find it hard to justify spending
$10 for a 12-pack of soda..

I never buy "packs", I stick to 2-litre bottles. Much more
economical. If I want to carry pop with me, I'll use a 20-ounce
bottle I got from a vending machine and fill that up from the
2-litre. You can get three 20-ouncers with change left over.

over by me it's cheaper to buy the cans instead of the bottles of SODA.
there are deals sometimes for the six packs, but not often.


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Re: Re: people with autism
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mike Powell on Wed May 13 2026 06:52:38

...I'd look at my local grocery stores, and they'd have lots of Coke, Cherry coke, Vanilla Coke, caffeine free coke, and an empty space where all of the Diet Coke used to be.

How's that for irony. What once was avoided by most because of taste, becomes the item of choice because of price.

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Some grocery prices are getting crazy high. I'm surprised they're selling soda
12-packs for that much. Kroger owns some grocery stores in my area (which were
formerly local chains) and that sounds a bit right - And they're one of the more expensive grocery stores for some things. They also have their own store-brand sodas which tend to be a lot cheaper (I bought a 12-pack of Diet Dr. K from them for $4.50 not too long ago, but the price may have gone up since then). If I buy soda, I've been buying house brand lately since it tends
to be significantly less expensive (what name-brand soda used to cost). Sometimes I'll buy some soda from Costco because I think it's fairly good for
the price.

For me locally, the more reasonable source would be Walmart or, possibly, Save-A-Lot. I don't go there often because they don't stock a lot of things and their produce is usually too close-dated.

Soda isn't a basic necessity, and I find it hard to justify spending $10 for a
12-pack of soda..

That was the example being discussed. Other items have doubled in price, too, and unlike promised, they've not gone down at all since Biden left office. The only exception here locally is gasoline, which did go back well down before recently going back up higher than when Biden left office.


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Re: Prices
By: Nightfox to Mike Powell on Tue May 12 2026 10:24 am

I have seen $10-11 12-pack soft drinks here. That has been the going
rate at Kroger now for at least 2 years. :( At Walmart they've been
$7-8 per 12-pack for a while, unless you are buying the house brand.

Some grocery prices are getting crazy high. I'm surprised they're selling soda 12-packs for that much. Kroger owns some grocery stores in my area (which were formerly local chains) and that sounds a bit right - And they're one of the more expensive grocery stores for some things. They also have their own store-brand sodas which tend to be a lot cheaper (I

Just snaged myself a 24 pack of 12 oz Coke from Smiths (Kroger) for 10.99
I don't buy soda to often but I do like a coke now and then.

Denn

...24 hours in a day and 24 beers in a case. Hmmmm...

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Re: Pop Goes the Prices
By: Mortar to All on Wed May 13 2026 11:07 am

Re: Re: people with autism
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mike Powell on Wed May 13 2026 06:52:38

...I'd look at my local grocery stores, and they'd have lots of Coke, Cherry coke, Vanilla Coke, caffeine free coke, and an empty space
where all of the Diet Coke used to be.

How's that for irony. What once was avoided by most because of
taste, becomes the item of choice because of price.

i'd rather have diet soda. regular soda has a pound of sugar in it.


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Re: Prices
By: Denn to Nightfox on Wed May 13 2026 11:31 am

Just snaged myself a 24 pack of 12 oz Coke from Smiths (Kroger) for 10.99 I don't buy soda to often but I do like a coke now and then.

That's a pretty good price.

Generally I'd prefer Pepsi; I don't really like Coke that much.

Nightfox

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