re: Supermarket chain stops selling Pepsi products do to price rise

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Supermarket stores in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium pulls PepsiCo products over price hikes...

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I will take your work for it pay wall YNWA

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Another award winning thread by YNWA.

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What do you expect from fookin’ Scouse filth?

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I don't really get this. Don't the stores just sell the brands at a margin and let the labels compete against each other? Unless the brands aren't moving because they are overpriced relative to their competition, how does it effect the merchant one way or the other?

I'm sure there's a massive amount of nuance I'm missing. Anyone have some insight?

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These stores have a finite amount of shelf space and therefore need to get the most revenue per square foot of shelf/store space. So a product that isn't selling is not worth keeping on the shelves...so they reduce how much space they allocate to it or just don't sell it.

So there's a 1% chance this is virtue signaling and a 99% chance it's driven by revenue (or lack of revenue).

I've always thought that Pepsi was cheaper than Coke products. Interesting.

We have a gas station here that only sells Pepsi products. Threw me off because I can't recall ever going to one in my life that didn't have both Coke and Pepsi products.

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Manufacturers are always price gouging. I spoke to a manufacturer a few weeks ago. He told me the cost of every single ingredient he used to make his product has steadily increased since Covid. Nothing has come down, but they all keep going up.

So let’s say this is his formula that used to cost $9 to produce:
A - $2
B - $3
C - $4


Now it costs $14 to produce just for the ingredients:
A - $4
B - $5

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Yes, its all about how much gouging they can get away with. Always.

Yes, things have gone up. But they have gone up generally 20-30%. But prices for retail goods after gouging have sometimes as pointed out gone up 100%+. It doesn't add up. In your instance the $2 item went to $4, when it should instead be $2.50 now. That $1.50 extra is the BS price gouging, and then as pointed out companies love to throw deals around.

Its all marketing and business plans. But I don't understand why they can't just charge $2.75 all the time instead of charging $4 most of the time and then bogo $4.

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stopped drinking Coke back when it was still $2.50 for a twelve pack.

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These prices don't bother me, but I might drink 2-3 soft drinks a year. I don't know how people can drink that crap everyday. I will just consider myself lucky that I don't have any desire to drink them.

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Due?

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He could not afford the extra letter.

Price increases.

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That’s all a lie. Not who you spoke with, but manufacturers and suppliers. There is zero reason for these insane increases for everything, not just food. Just to be greedy and an opportunity to price gauge. I wish our gov would step in, and that’s saying a lot.

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Government caused inflation, inflation caused a lot of the price increase, and companies figured they could raise prices even more and blame inflation.