The Coca-Cola company uses pliers to squeeze us, again

[mejeep]

For many years, there was a Mexican Standoff among Coke, Pepsi and Cadbury/Schwepps to see who would break the $1.99 price for a 2 gallon soda at the supermarket. (CVS, delis and convenience stores passed that mark long ago, particularly if refrigerated

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[scritchwuff]

A combination of my trying to control calories, more than $1.50 a bottle, and hating having to slog heavy bottles of basically water into the house have led me to drink a lot of home brewed iced tea in recent years. Over $2.00 a bottle. Meh. That's getting rather pricey for a bottle of fizzy water with some high fructose corn syrup and caramel color.

[deffox]

Soda seems to have random prices here. Between various supermarkets it can be up to $2.50/2L Canadian, or on Sale for $1. So I tend to stock up during sales.

I've seen one of those Coke Freestyle machines open. It reminds me of an inkjet printer with its flavor cartridges.

[bear_cat]

This many: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Freestyle#/media/File:Coca-Cola_Freestyle_syrup_cartridges.jpg Yes, 100 is roughly N(base drinks) * N(add-ons).

The manual is here. https://www.manualslib.com/download/1262373/Coca-Cola-Freestyle-9000.html (there is a pdf download, might have to go through a captcha).

Looks like one has to scan the RFID tag on a new box to get the door to open, *and* type the code when replacing the "non-nutritive sweetener" box.

[mejeep]

WOWZERS, thanks for the links!
The inner tech is quite impressive: microdosing, originally from the pharma industry.