I’m trying to buy less American products and support swiss ones, but why does the 6 pack cost literally 6x the normal one? Isn’t there usually a small discount for buying in bulk?

by hateredditbuthere1am

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  1. It would be better if they sold larger bottles too. But it is what it is.

    At the beginning I didn’t prefer it, but now it is much better than Coca Cola. So for me it is still worth it.

  3. For the same reason a CFFSBB multi-journey ticket (6 journeys) costs the same as 6 single tickets, I guess…

  4. Apparently I need to share when and where this was taken; Coop in Basel, this morning.

  5. Welcome to Coop bro

    A six pack starts costing exactly the same as soon as they see that the customers buy a lot anyways.

    That used to be a thing, but it really isn’t anymore. And with coop, you can forget that anyways.

    I despise that company.

  6. Doesn’t Denner sell some good Cola? My grandfather buys that!!

  7. The main selling point for the 6 pack seems to be that they’re easier to carry.

  8. You should ask, why isn’t the price of the individual bottle jacked up to make me want to buy the six pack?

    Why should it cost less if you buy more? It’s only a ploy to make you buy more. I’m quite happy with this pricing.

  9. bro-tip: just drink water and less of this carbonated poison

  10. If they have different SKU, they have different life. The rest is your interpretation of the sales process.

  14. > Isn’t there usually a small discount for buying in bulk?

    Nope. Outside of specific sales, basically never.

    For most products, retailers *get* them in those 6-packs (or however many they are for that product) only. Every single lone bottle you see was part of such a pack.
    If the prices were different, the people working in the store would have to put a lot of thought into whether they’re supposed to unpack some when the single bottles run out or not. Wouldn’t make sense.

  16. Wow, six bottles cost the same as six bottles. Who would have thought

  18. I don’t know about Pepsi, but I do know Coca-Cola is produced locally. Or, at least mixed locally. It’s probably the dumbest “American” thing to boycott.

    I laughed when I heard the other orange store started carrying Turkish Cola instead. Turkish Cola products are likely cheaper to import than buying domestically mixed cola products… So yeah, of course they’re willing to dump the American brand and make more money.

  21. When you’ll pay 6x the price of 1, why on earth would they charge less? They’re not in this for altruistic reasons.

  23. If you just want one, you open the pack and take one, so the ones in the pack have to cost the same as the loose ones.

  25. Why do you think you get a discount because you buy in bulk? Not the case anywhere with anything except if it specifically says so.

  26. Why would you stop at Swiss border? Why not to prefer cola from your canton, city, street, house? What is so special about Swiss border?

  27. go with River or Freeway from Aldi and Lidl.
    That stuff is dirt cheap. ~0.60chf per 1.5 liter bottle.
    It tastes better than Happy Cola and is almost indistinguishable from CocaCola in my opinion.

    The downside is that it’s never cooled. So to just grab a bottle and go that’s not as nice.

  29. I have been buying coop prix and garantie coke. Its pretty good and is pretty good to the original. And pretty cheap as well. You’ll find them in big packs.

  30. You get volume discounts for more product in one package, not more packages of product in one bigger package.

    Meaning bigger bottles give you more CL/CHF, but more bottles ot the same size don’t.
    Unless it’s some special offer, where they tape multiple of a product together to get people to buy more than they otherwise would.

    If money is an issue, 0.5 liter bottles is not a good value proposition to begin with. You pay a considerable amount more for unnecessary extra plastic to throw away and hope it gets recycled.
    Even just a 6-pack of small bottles (1 liter) costs 10.50 while containing as much cola as 2×7.20=14.40 of tiny bottles.

  33. It’s like eating fake steak. Just avoid the whole cola stuff, drink healthier.

  34. Welcome to switzerland, where discounts not usual 🤣

  35. That’s not a good reason not to buy these instead of american.

  36. Wait, are you Swiss? One of the first things I noticed when moving to Switzerland from the US was the buy in bulk discount was largely not a thing. You buy X of something you typically expect to pay X*the price.

    Maybe it was all coincidence but that was my impression, native Swiss folk feel free to correct me.

  37. Vivi cola 50cl. 100cl= 2.40.-

    Pepsi Zero 33cl. 100cl = 2.73.-

    A six-pack of Pepsi contains 1.98 liters. A six-pack of Vivi Cola contains 3 liters. Per 100 cl, Pepsi is more expensive. The same amount of Pepsi as in the Vivi Cola pack would cost more.

  38. Coca Cola 6 packs cost also the same as 6 individual Coca Colas. That’s why you can just grab one from the six pack

  41. For the 6 packs. Let’s compare it using the same unit. Vivi Cola 1L=2.40 vs. Pepsi 1L=2.75. Vivi Cola cheaper by 0.35 on the liter than Pepsi

  43. Are you crazy? This is Switzerland, where the main reasoning for everything being batshit expensive is, that we need to pay peoples wages!

    Not really joking, honestly, that’s mostly the reasoning.

  44. I’m really annoyed that the only non-US options for cola zero is happy cola at Coop in my town or the Lidl store brand. Migros, Coop, Volg, Denner, Aldi, Lidl – none of them carries Vivi, Goba, Fritz, vo üs or any of the other decent regional alternatives.

  45. I thought with multi packs in Europe, you can just get into the pack and pull out a single. So no, there’s no volume discount. I was very surprised the first time I shopped in a French grocery store and all the plastic packages were torn open 😅

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