Why does a 16 oz. bottle of water cost more than 8 lbs of ice?

[thundley4]

Our vending machine at work has a 20 oz. bottle of water or soda for the same low price, $1.00.   I take one bottle from home home and refill it out of the water cooler .

[Chris_]

Our vending machine at work has a 20 oz. bottle of water or soda for the same low price, $1.00.   I take one bottle from home home and refill it out of the water cooler .

The only time I buy water jugs is distilled water for my car's radiator.  I have plenty of "bottled water" at home as a result.

[seahorse513]

I drink alot of Diet Coke, when i am finished with bottle, I refill it with tap water and freeze it and voila!!! That would be good to use as a cooling element for a cooler too!! Once the ice is melted, you can drink it as water, and no more wasted water....

[GOBUCKS]

I refill it with tap water and freeze it and voila!

Damn! That makes me miss know-it-all nadin. She always writes that word "wallah".
When nadin went to school (in the third world), Pam Dawson taught spelling.

[I_B_Perky]

Interesting concept here.     Sell colored ice in cubes at twice the price of plain old ice.   

We sell colored water with a flavoring added, why not turn it into ice?  Much can be done with ice to make people pay more for it then bottled water.

Back many years ago when I was a kid, my great aunt had a little plastic container thing, 12 tubular things kinda like an ice tray, that had plastic sticks on it that you could put down in the liquid. You filled it up, put the sticks in it, tossed it in the freezer for 3 or 4 hours and you had pop-sicles. We made coke-sicles, kool aid-sicles,  you name it, we froze it. She grew up during the depression and just couldn't see paying for something she could make on her own. We also put coke in ice cube trays and froze it. Man they were good when it was in the high 90's.

I still make coke cubes for the nieces and nephews, who are now in their mid 20's with kids of their own, when they invade Uncle Perky's household every 4th of July.

[Chris_]

I remember those... my parents used to make orange juice popsicles during the summer.  Grocery stores still had them for sale as late as 1990 but I haven't seen any since then.  I did find some online last week.

[Mike220]

I remember those... my parents used to make orange juice popsicles during the summer.  Grocery stores still had them for sale as late as 1990 but I haven't seen any since then.  I did find some online last week.

I saw them at Walmart a few days ago. Brought back memories of child hood. Would love some Coke-sicles right about now actually.

I'm one of those people that will spend $1.50 on a bottle of water. Every Monday I buy one on my way to work, the refill it the rest of the week. I'll drink 4-5 of those on a normal work day.

[miskie]

Interesting concept here.     Sell colored ice in cubes at twice the price of plain old ice.   

We sell colored water with a flavoring added, why not turn it into ice?  Much can be done with ice to make people pay more for it then bottled water.

your post gave me flashbacks..

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[I_B_Perky]

I remember those... my parents used to make orange juice popsicles during the summer.  Grocery stores still had them for sale as late as 1990 but I haven't seen any since then.  I did find some online last week.

Oh I had forgotten about the orange juice-sicles. Man those things were great! We did chocolate milk one time. It sucked.

My great aunt made coffee-sicles. She would take cold coffee and mix some hershey syrup in it. Then freeze it. I've always drank coffee since I was a kid and I must say it wasn't half bad. I loved the candy called coffee nips. Ya all ever had them? Dunno if you can even get them now.

[seahorse513]

your post gave me flashbacks..

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That used to be right before or after School House Rock on saturday mornings. Those were the days!!!!

[vesta111]

First I remember these things were sold as Tupper Ware.

Today we can still buy Freeze Pops at Walmart that are plastic tubes that hold perhaps 3 0z 0f colored sugared  and flavored frozen ice water.  The kids bite or rip off the top and suck out the ice inside.   some boxes containing 50 of these summer delights cost less then $5.00.   Problem is what to do with a bunch of kids running about and dropping the empty plastic containers on the ground.   

[Rebel]

Snoutport  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jun-17-11 04:57 PM
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Why does a 16 oz. bottle of water cost more than 8 lbs of ice? I just picked up a 16 oz. bottle of water and an 8 lb bag of ice. The bottle of water was $1.69. The ice was $1.50. Whatever happened to a fair price for a product? My guess is the water bottle didn't cost much more to make than the power bought to freeze the water. Shipping should go by weight so, the ice should cost much much more for shipping.

American business makes me despair sometimes.

Why? Because you bought it, moron. Welcome to Capitalism. If idiots didn't buy expensive bottles of water, they wouldn't cost 1.69.

BTW dipshit, you can get a 30 pack of bottled water from Sam's for less than 5 bucks. Trust me, I do it all the time.

[GOBUCKS]

I buy maybe six bottles of water a year, maybe less. I just want the bottles to refill over and over, because they are so handy.
Each bottle comes with a Handy Cap.

Bottled water reminds me of the gum we used to buy to get the baseball cards. It was in flat squares that crumbled, and tasted like
hell. Every kid I knew bought the gum whenever he could come up with a nickel, took the baseball card, and threw away the gum.

I'd pay exactly the same price, just as often, if they poured out the water and just packaged the bottles. In fact, it would be appreciated, because they would be lighter to carry home.

That's an interesting marketing question. If you packaged empty plastic bottles, and put them next to packages of bottles full of water, with exactly the same price, which item would sell best? I'd always take the empty ones.

[Karin]

Handy Cap.

  I got that.   

But did you also read the DUmmie's advice about how to make an awesome bread tie device?

Take your empty water bottle.
Saw off the top.
Go to emergency room and have your hand stitched and the blood stanched.
Thread the bread wrapper into the underside of the halved bottle
Screw on the Handy Cap! 

[Texacon]

  I got that.   

But did you also read the DUmmie's advice about how to make an awesome bread tie device?

Take your empty water bottle.
Saw off the top.
Go to emergency room and have your hand stitched and the blood stanched.
Thread the bread wrapper into the underside of the halved bottle
Screw on the Handy Cap! 

 

KC

[NHSparky]

Why does a 16 oz. bottle of water cost more than 8 lbs of ice?

Simple answer?  Because pretentious dipshits like you will pay for it.

[Ptarmigan]

You can make ice at home with the an ice cube maker and water. Just put in the freezer and you got ice. As for bottled water costing more, just buy bulk.

[miskie]

You can make ice at home with the an ice cube maker and water. Just put in the freezer and you got ice. As for bottled water costing more, just buy bulk.

Pfft. Just go to one of those water kiosks with an empty jug - nothing beats 25 cents a gallon.

[IassaFTots]

Pfft. Just go to one of those water kiosks with an empty jug - nothing beats 25 cents a gallon.

I have a RO filter, and have tasty water any time I want.

[miskie]

I have a RO filter, and have tasty water any time I want.

Right, but you aren't a primitive, and will actually change the filter periodically. The primitive is just better off paying the quarter and not actually having to do any work.

[GOBUCKS]

Pfft. Just go to one of those water kiosks with an empty jug - nothing beats 25 cents a gallon.

I just checked my bill. For 25 cents, I get about 100 gallons, and in a blind comparison no one can tell the difference.

[AprilRazz]

First I remember these things were sold as Tupper Ware.

Today we can still buy Freeze Pops at Walmart that are plastic tubes that hold perhaps 3 0z 0f colored sugared  and flavored frozen ice water.  The kids bite or rip off the top and suck out the ice inside.   some boxes containing 50 of these summer delights cost less then $5.00.   Problem is what to do with a bunch of kids running about and dropping the empty plastic containers on the ground.   

I had something like this growing up.

Those freeze pops are medicinal. We had a small collision between two 5 year olds the other day. Both boys were running around the yard and neither one was looking where they were going till it was too late. One ended up with a goose egg on the forehead and the other had a bloody mouth. Both were in tears. Those freeze pops not only help with a bloody mouth but they cure crying.