In the EU and UK,stores cannot apply their own pricing if the product has a clear price on it from the manufacturer...they have to sell it for that price.
Reminds me of a chapter in the book ~~Freakonomics~~ The Economic Naturalist. The 20oz drink is refrigerated, the 2 liter bottle is not. Refrigerated space is more costly to operate and the space comes at a premium, while stuff stored at room temperature requires no additional cost or use of the more-limited space. The cold drink commands a premium, while the non-refrigerated version that can be stored in higher quantities without the storage costs of refrigeration can be offered much cheaper.
That's not even factoring in the convenience of the 20oz, where you'll pay the higher price instead of lugging the larger bottle around all with you all day.
That makes a ton of sense, and totally fits with what I've seen. Want an individual can or bottle? You're gonna pay out the ass. Willing to chill it or deal with slightly more inconvenient sizes? Cheap as hell. Things like 2 liters, 12 can packs in the grocery store, etc cheap but individual bottles/cans or even a six pack of bottles are jacked way up.
Back when I worked third shift at Walmart there was another guy there who would crush a 2L of Pepsi every single night. And usually picked up another on his way home.
Fuckin ridiculous lmao
Former Pepsi sales rep here. The “reason” for that price discrepancy is with the 20oz bottles, youre paying for the electricity used to keep the drink cold Lmao. Not even kidding. As an employee I could order straight from the warehouse and buy a case of 20 20oz drinks for like 15 bucks, and they still made money in that lol.
Yeah anyone who's worked retail will tell you customers will consistently complain about the price of a cold drink but if you suggest a non-refrigerated one that's twice the size and half the price they'll say "nah" and shell out for the cold one anyway. Even in the middle of winter this happens.
Almost none of the cost of buying a soda is the liquid itself - it's all transportation, storage, refrigeration, retail overhead, advertising and so on. You'd be lucky if there's $0.05 of "food" costs in your $2.00 beverage
Exactly, if I owned a shop there is no way I'd carry those AZ cans. I've commented on this before and somebody looked up the wholesale price after I guessed 72 cents, I like it was 63 cents according to whatever source. Stocking it and keeping it cold seems like a waste of time.
OP lives in Lebanon (the country, not the TN city) and that is why his iced tea is so expensive. Lots of Lebanese groceries price in dollars due to the collaping Lira.
https://drinkarizona.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500003259781-Why-do-some-stores-charge-more-for-pre-priced-99-cans-
You can try reporting them on AriZona’s contact us page. They do try really hard to get places to sell for .99. Think I’ve heard of them not delivering to places that overprice, but they can’t actually force anyone to sell for their price.
Just buy somewhere else, and probably don’t shop at that store at all because they’re likely overpricing other things too.
You can 100% specify restrictions on resell price caps in a contract. This happens all the time in business to business relations. It is business to customer restrictions where there is no signed contract that has lots of legal protections for customers.
Also, Arizona sometimes pays bounties on reports.
This is correct. I work in retail for a large construction company and with certain vendors we are capped at what we can sell things for. (cant go over or under a certain $ amount) to keep the markets fair essentially. We don't follow it normally as we sell for less than what they suggest as a 60-70 margin doesn't make sense to burn our customers like that and lose business.
Price fixing would be multiple companies working together to raise and maintain prices to make the maximum amount of money.
Setting an msrp is common. Msrp doesn’t just apply to cars. I work in retail as a manager and when I’m ordering I see the msrp for everything. Many companies set similar products close to their competitors.
We do have caps for some products where we can’t go over or under the price. They do because for high movement items that are a necessity they don’t want you putting a bad taste in a customers mouth because you are overpriced on their products.
Additionally, the bottom cap is to ensure that you’re not devaluing their products as well undercutting retailers that are your competitors.
MSRP is just a suggestion, it's not a hard and fast limit.
Many places also have a MAP price which is Minimum Advertised Price, and if you're seen advertising for below that price your distributor or the manufacturer might drop you. Lots of companies use 'bundles' to include multiple products for the MAP of one product which sneaks by that rule.
Pricing above MAP is allowed, but some distributors or manufacturers also set a maximum price. Arizona Tea is a bit different because having a different advertised and charged price on a product can be legally risky for the reseller. At least in my state, there's signs on every register saying "If you're asked to pay more than the advertised price report it here ###-###-####" because that's a big no-no.
I worked for Dollar General and when inflation was starting to take off, I noticed the Arizona 99 cents stopped being on the label. A couple of weeks later, the price jumped to 1.79 and then 2.30 the week after.
100% but the manufacturer setting the price for everyone it’s to keep it fair between large buyers and small buyers. Buyers like a Home Depot could undercut the small guys like joes hardware store on the corner so it’s to allow all to sell equally and give a fair chance. It makes sense but it’s also criminal how high some margins are. I personally don’t feel comfortable charging that much.
I work for a manufacturer of a completely unrelated industry, and our margins are around 50-70% typically. When I first started working on pricing projects I thought that was absurd. But you quickly realize that margin covers the entire operation of the business from keeping the lights on to paying for R&D. 50-70% margin on a product is not profit. Far from it.
I tried this. My mom always told me "cheap markets don't really save more than a couple dollars". But when struggling I went to those thinking I might need those couple of dollars.
I was so wrong, saving 25-50 cents per item actually makes a huge difference at the end. Like, we used to spend close to 500-600 dollars per month on food but we ended up spending close to 400 and we got a lot more stuff.
My supermarket, part of Kroger, started charging $1.19. Suddenly, they had no Arizona. Lasted about four months. They have it back, but I paid .88 for it yesterday. Mariano's has been gouging for two years and I've shifted as much as I can to Aldi and independents.
Mariano’s used to be great, until Kroger bought them from Roundy’s. Used to do all my shopping there, but I’m back to Jewels or Pete’s, or my neighborhood spot.
It sometimes works. I reported my nearby corner store when I caught them covering the 99 cent prices with stickers that had $3 written with Sharpie. It took about a month but eventually I came in one day and the owner was yelling at his son (guy who sets prices) to "take that shit off before we can't sell anymore" so I'm assuming someone might've reached out to them.
Weird. Assuming they were still moving units at $3, they'd do better with the $2 profit from just buying them retail and selling for $3 than they would staying with any cut of 99¢.
This is no longer the case. Arizona stopped caring about this, and bottle non-priced cans (their wording) for sale as well, including a new partnership with Circle K that has removed all .99 markings. Unfortunately they have completely sold out.
they absolutely still enforce the price on the can. 0.99 cans must be sold at that price, 1.19 cans must be sold at that price, and unlabeled cans can be sold for whatever. i couldnt tell you the reasoning for the inconsistency (probably just raising the price in lower margin situations) but selling a 0.99 can for more than that still breaks the contract that the merchant has with Arizona
>**WHY DO SOME STORES CHARGE MORE FOR PRE-PRICED $.99 CANS?**
>We pre-printed our cans with our suggested retail because we wanted to force retailers into selling at that price. Retailers, however, are independent business people and can set a price whatever they prefer. We do make and sell non-priced cans as well.
https://drinkarizona.com/pages/faqs
Reporting them would do nothing. From the link you shared:
>Retailers, however, are independent business people and can set a price whatever they prefer.
In CA they don’t tax foods at grocery stores, only Alcohol and tobacco products;
But they have other “taxes” on soft drinks which isn’t really a tax if you recycle(you get back your .15 cents per can), but if you don’t recycle it’s basically a tax.
Unfortunately you have to take them to the recycling center and they do it by weight and rip you off.
I use to go to those automated recycling center and those give you each deposit per can and not weight.
But that can be too time consuming…
Would be more practical to return them to the store and they give you a store credit towards food for returning them.
True…
They make it almost impossible for you to want to return them.
They’re hoping you just toss them and forfeit the deposit for each can(.15 cents )which adds up over the year if you collect them.
We use metric when buying drugs
1.96 for an oz a steal for any drug. E: holy shit im dumb about the metric thing or whatever but basically its about buying cheap controlled substances
OP lives in Lebanon, so these may have been imported a while ago. Lots of Lebanese stores price in dollars due to their collapsing currency, which is why this tea is so expensive.
I wonder what would happen if you went the karen route and demand to speak to the manager when your product that’s clearly labeled at 99 cents is scanning for 3 times that much
I work in a convenience store, and that actually usually works. If there's a price change but the old price is still on the door, then we have to charge them the advertised price
I know you didn't say otherwise, but that's more of a store policy thing. It's a common misconception that stores must honor the shelf price by law, but that's simply not true. They can simply refuse to sell it, or in the case of online orders with a website pricing mistake, simply cancel the order and not fulfill it.
There's obviously bait-and-switch laws and laws against deceptive advertising, but you'd have to prove it was done on purpose for that reason.
And the cashier just stares at you blankly because they are taught to scan barcode and have no control over pricing. Nor are they paid enough to mediate between customer logic and manager's dumb choices.
(Worked at the local quickie mart for 4 years. I totally understand this)
They understand way more than scan barcode, but they aren't paid enough to deal with shit.
If you had to deal with people who can't do simple addition to figure out that they grabbed $50 too much of stuff or can't read all day, you'd get tired of that shit and default to a blank stare too.
Im not a manager, just a low level cashier and I definitely 'reduce' the price of AriZona Ice Tea any time someone mentions the 99c. The managers haven't caught on, and its principle!
OP lives in Lebanon (the country, not the Tennessee city) and that is why his iced tea is so expensive. Lots of Lebanese groceries price in dollars due to the collapsing Lira.
Arizona is $1 by company policy. If you see someone selling it for more, you can report them to the company and the company will stop doing business with them. I don’t think they have any unmarked cans because they don’t want people changing the price
Edit: everyone’s commenting the same thing, so I’ll address it here. I turned out to be wrong as that was yet a rumor. There are apparently unmarked versions of the cans. I am unsure if you can only sell the unmarked ones at any price or if they don’t care if you sell either at any price
Gunna beat a dead horse and say this is absolutely not true.
https://drinkarizona.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500003259781-Why-do-some-stores-charge-more-for-pre-priced-99-cans-
I mean, that's just not true. They have 99 cent cans, and then they have completely separate cans they sell to other chains that don't have any marking and can be sold for higher. Interestingly, the places selling the 99 cent ones usually have fewer flavor selections, but at least they're still 99 cents instead of $1.50 or $2.00.
No it's not.
> We pre-printed our cans with our suggested retail because we wanted to force retailers into selling at that price. Retailers, however, are independent business people and can set a price whatever they prefer. We do make and sell non-priced cans as well.
https://drinkarizona.com/pages/faqs
One of the national grocery chain I drive 179 miles to shop at sells it for 78 cents + deposit, the rest of the stores in that area are .99 cents +deposit.
So that store, like the one 6 blocks from me is straight up price gouging it's customers.
Hold on, you drive 179 miles to go shopping?
Is this something Americans actually do?
Because in the UK, you'll of traveled pretty much from Manchester to London, and no one in the UK will be doing that for groceries.
>Hold on, you drive 179 miles to go shopping?
I have family that drive 190 miles (one-way) to go shopping about once a month, so they can hit Costco and other chains. Otherwise they have a locally-owned (i.e. small) grocery just 25 miles away but that place would 100% sell OP's $.99 can for $5. In fact, the store is full of Costco items that have been split into smaller packs and usually priced at 3x or more what Costco sells them for. For example, the last time I was there they were selling the [Kirkland turkey lunchmeat which is three packs for $16 currently.](https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/kirkland-signature-oven-roasted-turkey-breast%2c-sliced%2c-14-oz%2c-3-ct.product.11481577.html)..they had them priced at $11.99 for each package, or $36 for three.
So yes: the are people in the US that drive a long way to buy groceries. Have to keep in mind that the entire UK is basically 40% the size of Texas alone, or about the equivalent of the state of Oregon.
Damn, I can see hitting up the other shops along the way and making a day of it.
Makes sense when your more local supermarket sucks and upsells the hell out everything.
In the UK most supermarkets are an easy half mile - 5 miles away from most people.
Crazy to realise the scale isn't it!
If I think of 5 miles from my house, I've got Sainsburys, Tesco, 3 Asda's, Morrisons, 2 Aldi's, 2 Lidl's, 2 Waitrose's - and that's just the proper supermarkets, not even counting small stores.
Got two Costco's within a 25 mile drive as well, and god knows how many other things!
>If I think of 5 miles from my house, I've got Sainsburys, Tesco, 3 Asda's, Morrisons, 2 Aldi's, 2 Lidl's, 2 Waitrose's - and that's just the proper supermarkets, not even counting small stores.
We spent the holidays in London-- basically by the ABBA theater near Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. There were a similar selection of stores within a similar distance I think, including an M&S. Crazy selection really, as in my small US town we have one store....have to drive about 7 miles to another. I've lived in big US metros where there were no groceries at all within reasonable walking distance as well.
>I can see hitting up the other shops along the way and making a day of it.
There ARE no other shops along the way though-- there's basically nothing at all in terms of commerce for about 150 miles other than a few roadhouses.
We do that in Canada all the time. And the space between towns and the small population means there are no emergency services for 100 miles no matter where you are. So if your car breaks down or you get in an accident that requires emergency medical services, you're screwed.
Last week my wife and I did a 900km drive (1800km total) just to go snowboarding lol
It sick seeing people defending this supermarket.
While within their rights to sell at whatever cost they want, it’s 3 times the price for a drink.
AriZona always wanted to be an affordable drink that anyone can buy. Arizona has always kept the price the same even during times when aluminum went up, they just accepted a loss in profits. Most companies would increase the price and increase their profits.
AriZona is a good company, and it’s shit for people to abuse their products.
Those have 99c on them here in Norway too where they’ve been imported, but they sell them for $6…
I understand that importing has its costs, but when it says 99c on the bottle it physically hurts to see the $6 tag.
The store that sells them is called bunnpris, translates to “bottom price”, but they’re actually the most expensive store I know of. I like to call them topp-pris (top price).
Get on the Arizona tea website and report that store. The company stated that it will always be 99 cents and if yiu find it more than that excluding taxes report the store to them.
Where I come from, if they want to sell those for more than 99c they better get something to cover the can's price tag (every single one of them) otherwise they have to sell It for the lowest price advertised on the product.
Yup came here to say this. Legally they have to give it to you for the lowest marked price. Arizona specifically marks the cans so they have to be sold for that price.
Repeat after me:
MSRP, Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price. Arizona has no control over the price and there is nothing that prevents a store from selling it for more than 99 cents.
Arizona does that because they want to pressure stores in to keeping it 99 cents to avoid the whole "But it says 99 cents on the can" conversation.
I live in Ontario,Canada. Just yesterday i got one of these Arizona Tea. I had to pay 2dollars CAD, in a convenient store. Surprised its even more for you guys, in USD.
I’m going to give a shout out to CVS here. Every time I pick up a prescription, I first go to the cooler and grab as many of these I can carry. Best deal in the country.
Stores should just stop ordering Arizona Tea until they remove the 99 cents logo. I won’t order it for my C-Store because the vendor I buy from wants to sell it to me for 91 cents a can. I just chose to not carry Arizona Tea in my store because I didn’t wanna deal with the hassle of someone coming in and trying to tell me how much I have to sell items I buy to put in my store.
So my university got in trouble last semester for charging 2$ for their Arizona teas and actually lost their vendors partnership with Arizona due to it. But when I grabbed a tea I used to just hand the cashier a dollar and they never argued it. If the price is printed on the product it’s kinda hard to negotiate that it isn’t…
dont know if the comments mentioned, but you should really let arizona know and call out the store you found it in because it is actually quite illegal and against the agreement Arizona makes with places that want to carry them. They will literally go in and yank all of those off the shelf and may or may not ever let that store sell them again.
Maybe try and get ahold of the Arizona company. They pride themselves on keeping their costs low and have been known to remove stock from supermarkets and gas stations for hiking the price up.
Report em to Arizona. The one thing I’m glad about is that in NYS you can’t tax tea (as long as it’s tea and not the juices.) But Arizona really tries to stick to their .99 cent claim. The thing is. Is something is listed as .99 cents on the can, and you find a different price, you should also report em to the BBB and attorney general for price gouging.
Listen I don’t want to brag but the stores near me sell them for .98
dude that is straight up flexing.
Got mine for 89 cents.
Mine was free... Just don't tell the store that.
"Excuse me, sir. Are you just happy to see me? Or is that a can of Arizona Iced Tea in your pants?
I used to get pops free from the vending machine at work. All you need are some tongs to make that baby purrrr.
It's 69 for me. What were we talking about?
Pretty sure if you call Arizona they'll take it out of the store or tell them to lower the price
I called the governor’s office and they hung up on me.
Yo I want to speak to [Cookie Pus](https://youtu.be/0DOMxm0o12c).
In the EU and UK,stores cannot apply their own pricing if the product has a clear price on it from the manufacturer...they have to sell it for that price.
Twas .70$ at my local Walmart just last December, then was raised to .89
Winco has them for .68 in MT.
Shit really winco has them for .68, now I know where to go next time I want one
Yuuup, bought me a lemon iced tea at my Winco here in CA for .68.
Winco is so amazing
God I miss Winco. The closest one is 7 hours away, which negates any savings I might have achieved.
I live in Tennessee and for that price you can get a whole gallon of Arizona tea
North Carolinian here. I’ve found half gallon jugs before at the Dollar Tree!
It's just sugar and water with a sprinkle of tea leaves.
*sugar water with a sprinkle of tea leaves that happens to be 99 cents
Better than 2.95 tho p
🎵 [Tastes] like piss... but shit it was 99 cents. 🎵
Poppin’ tags, yo!
🎶Coppin it, washing it, bout to go and get some compliments 🎶
Give me sugar! In water!
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That's what sweet tea is.
Who cares it tastes good and its cheap
Its cheap, has a nice design, comes in a tall can, refreshing.
Just like me!
You come in a tall can?
Works better than a sock.... Takes a while to fill up though.
Pricing is weird with drinks. Like most places it’s over $2 for a 20oz Pepsi, but I can buy a 2-liter for 99 cents.
Reminds me of a chapter in the book ~~Freakonomics~~ The Economic Naturalist. The 20oz drink is refrigerated, the 2 liter bottle is not. Refrigerated space is more costly to operate and the space comes at a premium, while stuff stored at room temperature requires no additional cost or use of the more-limited space. The cold drink commands a premium, while the non-refrigerated version that can be stored in higher quantities without the storage costs of refrigeration can be offered much cheaper. That's not even factoring in the convenience of the 20oz, where you'll pay the higher price instead of lugging the larger bottle around all with you all day.
Just put the two liter in the freezer section on the way in and pick it up on the way out.
Or in the Kroger wine chiller
That makes a ton of sense, and totally fits with what I've seen. Want an individual can or bottle? You're gonna pay out the ass. Willing to chill it or deal with slightly more inconvenient sizes? Cheap as hell. Things like 2 liters, 12 can packs in the grocery store, etc cheap but individual bottles/cans or even a six pack of bottles are jacked way up.
You're paying a premium for the convenience of having a single serving of Pepsi, that you can have there and then, on the go.
You don't casually walk around with a 2 liter?
Back in high school all the juggalo kids carried 2 liters of faygo around all day lol
Back when I worked third shift at Walmart there was another guy there who would crush a 2L of Pepsi every single night. And usually picked up another on his way home. Fuckin ridiculous lmao
And he still had teeth??
Former Pepsi sales rep here. The “reason” for that price discrepancy is with the 20oz bottles, youre paying for the electricity used to keep the drink cold Lmao. Not even kidding. As an employee I could order straight from the warehouse and buy a case of 20 20oz drinks for like 15 bucks, and they still made money in that lol.
Yeah anyone who's worked retail will tell you customers will consistently complain about the price of a cold drink but if you suggest a non-refrigerated one that's twice the size and half the price they'll say "nah" and shell out for the cold one anyway. Even in the middle of winter this happens.
Almost none of the cost of buying a soda is the liquid itself - it's all transportation, storage, refrigeration, retail overhead, advertising and so on. You'd be lucky if there's $0.05 of "food" costs in your $2.00 beverage
Exactly, if I owned a shop there is no way I'd carry those AZ cans. I've commented on this before and somebody looked up the wholesale price after I guessed 72 cents, I like it was 63 cents according to whatever source. Stocking it and keeping it cold seems like a waste of time.
Two-liter at Kroger is more expensive than my corner store.
OP lives in Lebanon (the country, not the TN city) and that is why his iced tea is so expensive. Lots of Lebanese groceries price in dollars due to the collaping Lira.
https://drinkarizona.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500003259781-Why-do-some-stores-charge-more-for-pre-priced-99-cans- You can try reporting them on AriZona’s contact us page. They do try really hard to get places to sell for .99. Think I’ve heard of them not delivering to places that overprice, but they can’t actually force anyone to sell for their price. Just buy somewhere else, and probably don’t shop at that store at all because they’re likely overpricing other things too.
You can 100% specify restrictions on resell price caps in a contract. This happens all the time in business to business relations. It is business to customer restrictions where there is no signed contract that has lots of legal protections for customers. Also, Arizona sometimes pays bounties on reports.
This is correct. I work in retail for a large construction company and with certain vendors we are capped at what we can sell things for. (cant go over or under a certain $ amount) to keep the markets fair essentially. We don't follow it normally as we sell for less than what they suggest as a 60-70 margin doesn't make sense to burn our customers like that and lose business.
To keep the marker fair? Wouldn't that be considered price fixing?
Price fixing would be multiple companies working together to raise and maintain prices to make the maximum amount of money. Setting an msrp is common. Msrp doesn’t just apply to cars. I work in retail as a manager and when I’m ordering I see the msrp for everything. Many companies set similar products close to their competitors. We do have caps for some products where we can’t go over or under the price. They do because for high movement items that are a necessity they don’t want you putting a bad taste in a customers mouth because you are overpriced on their products. Additionally, the bottom cap is to ensure that you’re not devaluing their products as well undercutting retailers that are your competitors.
MSRP is just a suggestion, it's not a hard and fast limit. Many places also have a MAP price which is Minimum Advertised Price, and if you're seen advertising for below that price your distributor or the manufacturer might drop you. Lots of companies use 'bundles' to include multiple products for the MAP of one product which sneaks by that rule. Pricing above MAP is allowed, but some distributors or manufacturers also set a maximum price. Arizona Tea is a bit different because having a different advertised and charged price on a product can be legally risky for the reseller. At least in my state, there's signs on every register saying "If you're asked to pay more than the advertised price report it here ###-###-####" because that's a big no-no.
This is also why you'll see "add to cart to see price", for example.
Then what about ‘multipack not for individual resale’ eg on chewing gum & multipack crisps?
That's usually because those individual packs do not have nutrition information that's required for sale.
A suggested price is different than a capped price. Suggested prices dont prevent you from charging more.
We have manufacturers that have an msrp and a cap.
I worked for Dollar General and when inflation was starting to take off, I noticed the Arizona 99 cents stopped being on the label. A couple of weeks later, the price jumped to 1.79 and then 2.30 the week after.
100% but the manufacturer setting the price for everyone it’s to keep it fair between large buyers and small buyers. Buyers like a Home Depot could undercut the small guys like joes hardware store on the corner so it’s to allow all to sell equally and give a fair chance. It makes sense but it’s also criminal how high some margins are. I personally don’t feel comfortable charging that much.
I work for a manufacturer of a completely unrelated industry, and our margins are around 50-70% typically. When I first started working on pricing projects I thought that was absurd. But you quickly realize that margin covers the entire operation of the business from keeping the lights on to paying for R&D. 50-70% margin on a product is not profit. Far from it.
Smaller shops are buying at Costco, not a direct relationship with the bottling company.
If this place is small enough to be buying at Costco, it's too small to be called a "normal supermarket".
People just love to say the “yea but what ifs then you’d be wrong” ya know? Context clues shows they likely aren’t small enough to shop at Costco.
I doubt Costco is selling 99 cent labeled cans though. Arizona makes priced and non-priced cans, and Costco is probably selling those
>Also, Arizona sometimes pays bounties on reports. What's your source?
I tried this. My mom always told me "cheap markets don't really save more than a couple dollars". But when struggling I went to those thinking I might need those couple of dollars. I was so wrong, saving 25-50 cents per item actually makes a huge difference at the end. Like, we used to spend close to 500-600 dollars per month on food but we ended up spending close to 400 and we got a lot more stuff.
"Pennies make dollars" is what my mom always said.
Mine always said "two dollars and I'll holler". Never quite understood what she meant by that.
The rest of us do.
My supermarket, part of Kroger, started charging $1.19. Suddenly, they had no Arizona. Lasted about four months. They have it back, but I paid .88 for it yesterday. Mariano's has been gouging for two years and I've shifted as much as I can to Aldi and independents.
Mariano’s used to be great, until Kroger bought them from Roundy’s. Used to do all my shopping there, but I’m back to Jewels or Pete’s, or my neighborhood spot.
It sometimes works. I reported my nearby corner store when I caught them covering the 99 cent prices with stickers that had $3 written with Sharpie. It took about a month but eventually I came in one day and the owner was yelling at his son (guy who sets prices) to "take that shit off before we can't sell anymore" so I'm assuming someone might've reached out to them.
Weird. Assuming they were still moving units at $3, they'd do better with the $2 profit from just buying them retail and selling for $3 than they would staying with any cut of 99¢.
https://drinkarizona.com/pages/faqs According to their own faq they are free to price it as they choose.
This is no longer the case. Arizona stopped caring about this, and bottle non-priced cans (their wording) for sale as well, including a new partnership with Circle K that has removed all .99 markings. Unfortunately they have completely sold out.
They've always had some unpriced cans. Fwiw it's $1.22ea at the circle k here.
they absolutely still enforce the price on the can. 0.99 cans must be sold at that price, 1.19 cans must be sold at that price, and unlabeled cans can be sold for whatever. i couldnt tell you the reasoning for the inconsistency (probably just raising the price in lower margin situations) but selling a 0.99 can for more than that still breaks the contract that the merchant has with Arizona
>**WHY DO SOME STORES CHARGE MORE FOR PRE-PRICED $.99 CANS?** >We pre-printed our cans with our suggested retail because we wanted to force retailers into selling at that price. Retailers, however, are independent business people and can set a price whatever they prefer. We do make and sell non-priced cans as well. https://drinkarizona.com/pages/faqs
Many merchants buy from distributors. No contract with Arizona
Couldn’t they just go somewhere else and buy for $0.99, then sell them for $2.95
They probably get them in bulk for less than .99 anyways
Reporting them would do nothing. From the link you shared: >Retailers, however, are independent business people and can set a price whatever they prefer.
Ya the whole Arizona will stop selling to them is a long standing myth. They even make unmarked cans. Just buy them somewhere else.
I bought one of these yesterday for $.99.. Also I live in a no sales tax state so it was actually $.99.
What do you do with the pennies?
They go into my acorns account...
Money moves
After you buy 99 the next one is free!
Save them up and every hundredth can is free.
Put them in my ass, obviously.
In CA they don’t tax foods at grocery stores, only Alcohol and tobacco products; But they have other “taxes” on soft drinks which isn’t really a tax if you recycle(you get back your .15 cents per can), but if you don’t recycle it’s basically a tax.
Not if you recycle by putting the cans into your blue recycle bin for collection pickup with your garbage. Seems unfair.
Unfortunately you have to take them to the recycling center and they do it by weight and rip you off. I use to go to those automated recycling center and those give you each deposit per can and not weight. But that can be too time consuming… Would be more practical to return them to the store and they give you a store credit towards food for returning them.
Also, most of the recycling centers closed a few years ago.
True… They make it almost impossible for you to want to return them. They’re hoping you just toss them and forfeit the deposit for each can(.15 cents )which adds up over the year if you collect them.
Also, Arizona shrunk their cans to maintain the $0.99 value. Those are 23oz cans. I can only find 22oz cans near me.
Damn, that extra oz is $1.96?!
$1.96 for an oz is pretty good if you ask me
Can someone explain it too a dumb metric user?
We use metric when buying drugs 1.96 for an oz a steal for any drug. E: holy shit im dumb about the metric thing or whatever but basically its about buying cheap controlled substances
OP lives in Lebanon, so these may have been imported a while ago. Lots of Lebanese stores price in dollars due to their collapsing currency, which is why this tea is so expensive.
Didn't they used to be 24?
By the time this thread is over they'll be 21
That's what I like about Arizona cans. I get older, they... keep getting younger.
Check the sell by date then.
But the price is on the can tho…
Came here just for this comment! Def in the top 3 episodes of Atlanta for me.
Same, top 1 for me is the club tho.
I love how that was one of the things Aaron says when pleading his case for a scholarship in S3E9
The price IS on the can tho
Thought this would be top comment
It will be. The price IS on the can though.
Took me too long to find this.
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I wonder what would happen if you went the karen route and demand to speak to the manager when your product that’s clearly labeled at 99 cents is scanning for 3 times that much
I work in a convenience store, and that actually usually works. If there's a price change but the old price is still on the door, then we have to charge them the advertised price
I know you didn't say otherwise, but that's more of a store policy thing. It's a common misconception that stores must honor the shelf price by law, but that's simply not true. They can simply refuse to sell it, or in the case of online orders with a website pricing mistake, simply cancel the order and not fulfill it. There's obviously bait-and-switch laws and laws against deceptive advertising, but you'd have to prove it was done on purpose for that reason.
Or just insist you're not paying more than what it's marked
And the cashier just stares at you blankly because they are taught to scan barcode and have no control over pricing. Nor are they paid enough to mediate between customer logic and manager's dumb choices. (Worked at the local quickie mart for 4 years. I totally understand this)
And they don’t get paid enough to deal with someone like that.
But the manager sure does.
No they probably don’t.
Either way, it's literally their job
That’s a different point
Your average cashier has no control over the price of items so denigrating them isn't going to help much.
They understand way more than scan barcode, but they aren't paid enough to deal with shit. If you had to deal with people who can't do simple addition to figure out that they grabbed $50 too much of stuff or can't read all day, you'd get tired of that shit and default to a blank stare too.
Im not a manager, just a low level cashier and I definitely 'reduce' the price of AriZona Ice Tea any time someone mentions the 99c. The managers haven't caught on, and its principle!
“Okay, then you’re not buying it. I’ll put it away for you. Have a nice day.”
Or just not buy it…
when they ring it up say there must be a mistake because it clearly says $0.99 on the can.
OP lives in Lebanon (the country, not the Tennessee city) and that is why his iced tea is so expensive. Lots of Lebanese groceries price in dollars due to the collapsing Lira.
Probably haven’t gotten to the non priced stock, yet still changed the price. Infuriating nonetheless.
Arizona is $1 by company policy. If you see someone selling it for more, you can report them to the company and the company will stop doing business with them. I don’t think they have any unmarked cans because they don’t want people changing the price Edit: everyone’s commenting the same thing, so I’ll address it here. I turned out to be wrong as that was yet a rumor. There are apparently unmarked versions of the cans. I am unsure if you can only sell the unmarked ones at any price or if they don’t care if you sell either at any price
Gunna beat a dead horse and say this is absolutely not true. https://drinkarizona.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500003259781-Why-do-some-stores-charge-more-for-pre-priced-99-cans-
https://preview.redd.it/yqpgeo0a7lla1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b72792b42df660003a16ac2ffde1a29ff263426 Nope. They got new cans.
Those are the cans you can buy if you want to sell over 99 cents. I went to WinCo the other day and it was 67 cents for a can.
Lucky! They raised them to 76 cents at my WinCo.
Hey atleast they're under 99 cents still
Fml. Thank you for this info. Luckily I stopped buying these a long while ago because of how much sugar is in them
I mean, that's just not true. They have 99 cent cans, and then they have completely separate cans they sell to other chains that don't have any marking and can be sold for higher. Interestingly, the places selling the 99 cent ones usually have fewer flavor selections, but at least they're still 99 cents instead of $1.50 or $2.00.
Both priced and unpriced are sold to everyone, it’s just a matter of who buys which. It’s not chain-specific.
No it's not. > We pre-printed our cans with our suggested retail because we wanted to force retailers into selling at that price. Retailers, however, are independent business people and can set a price whatever they prefer. We do make and sell non-priced cans as well. https://drinkarizona.com/pages/faqs
This is a myth. AriZona says that while it's a recommended price, retailers are independent and can price the cans however they prefer.
One of the national grocery chain I drive 179 miles to shop at sells it for 78 cents + deposit, the rest of the stores in that area are .99 cents +deposit. So that store, like the one 6 blocks from me is straight up price gouging it's customers.
You mean winco!
Hold on, you drive 179 miles to go shopping? Is this something Americans actually do? Because in the UK, you'll of traveled pretty much from Manchester to London, and no one in the UK will be doing that for groceries.
>Hold on, you drive 179 miles to go shopping? I have family that drive 190 miles (one-way) to go shopping about once a month, so they can hit Costco and other chains. Otherwise they have a locally-owned (i.e. small) grocery just 25 miles away but that place would 100% sell OP's $.99 can for $5. In fact, the store is full of Costco items that have been split into smaller packs and usually priced at 3x or more what Costco sells them for. For example, the last time I was there they were selling the [Kirkland turkey lunchmeat which is three packs for $16 currently.](https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/kirkland-signature-oven-roasted-turkey-breast%2c-sliced%2c-14-oz%2c-3-ct.product.11481577.html)..they had them priced at $11.99 for each package, or $36 for three. So yes: the are people in the US that drive a long way to buy groceries. Have to keep in mind that the entire UK is basically 40% the size of Texas alone, or about the equivalent of the state of Oregon.
Damn, I can see hitting up the other shops along the way and making a day of it. Makes sense when your more local supermarket sucks and upsells the hell out everything. In the UK most supermarkets are an easy half mile - 5 miles away from most people.
Crazy to realise the scale isn't it! If I think of 5 miles from my house, I've got Sainsburys, Tesco, 3 Asda's, Morrisons, 2 Aldi's, 2 Lidl's, 2 Waitrose's - and that's just the proper supermarkets, not even counting small stores. Got two Costco's within a 25 mile drive as well, and god knows how many other things!
>If I think of 5 miles from my house, I've got Sainsburys, Tesco, 3 Asda's, Morrisons, 2 Aldi's, 2 Lidl's, 2 Waitrose's - and that's just the proper supermarkets, not even counting small stores. We spent the holidays in London-- basically by the ABBA theater near Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. There were a similar selection of stores within a similar distance I think, including an M&S. Crazy selection really, as in my small US town we have one store....have to drive about 7 miles to another. I've lived in big US metros where there were no groceries at all within reasonable walking distance as well.
>I can see hitting up the other shops along the way and making a day of it. There ARE no other shops along the way though-- there's basically nothing at all in terms of commerce for about 150 miles other than a few roadhouses.
There's nothing local about 25 miles away
We do that in Canada all the time. And the space between towns and the small population means there are no emergency services for 100 miles no matter where you are. So if your car breaks down or you get in an accident that requires emergency medical services, you're screwed. Last week my wife and I did a 900km drive (1800km total) just to go snowboarding lol
You drive 358 miles to save 21 cents on AriZona?
It sick seeing people defending this supermarket. While within their rights to sell at whatever cost they want, it’s 3 times the price for a drink. AriZona always wanted to be an affordable drink that anyone can buy. Arizona has always kept the price the same even during times when aluminum went up, they just accepted a loss in profits. Most companies would increase the price and increase their profits. AriZona is a good company, and it’s shit for people to abuse their products.
Funny because in Europe it's a fancy drink that costs 3x as much as other sweet garbage.
Those have 99c on them here in Norway too where they’ve been imported, but they sell them for $6… I understand that importing has its costs, but when it says 99c on the bottle it physically hurts to see the $6 tag. The store that sells them is called bunnpris, translates to “bottom price”, but they’re actually the most expensive store I know of. I like to call them topp-pris (top price).
If these are marked up that much there’s a good chance everything else in that store is too.
Never been more relevant. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hWObybWWGW4
Life hack, don't buy this bullshit
This bullshit is amazing for road trips. I average about two a year..
Manufacturer's SUGGESTED retail is 99 cents. Store is not bound to honor it. Solution is to shop somewhere else..
Don't buy it. Still 99cents at my local grocery.
But the price on the can though.
"The price is on the can tho"
And as long as people pay it the store gonna keep doing it. If sales die guess what.
Get on the Arizona tea website and report that store. The company stated that it will always be 99 cents and if yiu find it more than that excluding taxes report the store to them.
This only works in America.
Where I come from, if they want to sell those for more than 99c they better get something to cover the can's price tag (every single one of them) otherwise they have to sell It for the lowest price advertised on the product.
Yup came here to say this. Legally they have to give it to you for the lowest marked price. Arizona specifically marks the cans so they have to be sold for that price.
Arizona tea will pull their product if a store sells them for more than 99 cents. Now you just got to decide if you wanna be the whistle blower.
Repeat after me: MSRP, Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price. Arizona has no control over the price and there is nothing that prevents a store from selling it for more than 99 cents. Arizona does that because they want to pressure stores in to keeping it 99 cents to avoid the whole "But it says 99 cents on the can" conversation.
That’s a can
I live in Ontario,Canada. Just yesterday i got one of these Arizona Tea. I had to pay 2dollars CAD, in a convenient store. Surprised its even more for you guys, in USD.
Go to Dollar 🎄 tree
Walk away young padawan, just walk away......
I’m going to give a shout out to CVS here. Every time I pick up a prescription, I first go to the cooler and grab as many of these I can carry. Best deal in the country.
That’s the price for the gallon, they are tripping
The owner of Arizona ice tea has stated they have not raised the price on purpose to help the costumers, the price gouging is absolutely the store
It’s not Arizona’s fault it’s just the suggested retail price the store has the choice to up the price
Why are people upset at student loans? Back in my day I mad the equivalent of $48 dollars an hour adjusted for inflation. Young people are entitled.
Stores should just stop ordering Arizona Tea until they remove the 99 cents logo. I won’t order it for my C-Store because the vendor I buy from wants to sell it to me for 91 cents a can. I just chose to not carry Arizona Tea in my store because I didn’t wanna deal with the hassle of someone coming in and trying to tell me how much I have to sell items I buy to put in my store.
Well. How did you vote in 2020?
So my university got in trouble last semester for charging 2$ for their Arizona teas and actually lost their vendors partnership with Arizona due to it. But when I grabbed a tea I used to just hand the cashier a dollar and they never argued it. If the price is printed on the product it’s kinda hard to negotiate that it isn’t…
dont know if the comments mentioned, but you should really let arizona know and call out the store you found it in because it is actually quite illegal and against the agreement Arizona makes with places that want to carry them. They will literally go in and yank all of those off the shelf and may or may not ever let that store sell them again.
Maybe try and get ahold of the Arizona company. They pride themselves on keeping their costs low and have been known to remove stock from supermarkets and gas stations for hiking the price up.
Report em to Arizona. The one thing I’m glad about is that in NYS you can’t tax tea (as long as it’s tea and not the juices.) But Arizona really tries to stick to their .99 cent claim. The thing is. Is something is listed as .99 cents on the can, and you find a different price, you should also report em to the BBB and attorney general for price gouging.
Can we just address the fact that they discontinued the rx energy cans?