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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 111 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Stupid shape for a can too, tips over In a vehicles cup holder

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 55 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Uses more aluminum to store the same amount of liquid too.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 8 months ago (7 children)

You sure about that?

Cylinders of the same volume will have the same area, so it should be the same amount of aluminum?

Maybe less, even, since the lid and bottom are thicker than the sides and on the taller can there's less of that thick top/bottom

[–] Jonnynny@lemm.ee 65 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Ignore things like the bevel, wall thickness, etc. Just calculating for a basic right cylinder, you can see how the surface area changes for different heights with a constant volume. I've outlined the standard dimensions of a can(inches). https://youtu.be/gL3HxBQyeg0

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I had a feeling it'd math out something like that if I opened my fat mouth, lol

I do wonder if thickness of the walls or lid/bottom does have an effect, though, as there must be some reason they make these weird ass cans

[–] Jonnynny@lemm.ee 15 points 8 months ago

In the grand scheme of things, it's not using much more. And if the prices are correct in OP, the markup on the new can is way higher than any extra cost they are incurring from additional raw materials. They probably had some marketing study show that a taller looking can makes consumer's less angry about a price increase or some other crazy nonsense.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The lid uses more aluminum than the rest of the can, making that smaller will have a bigger impact than the height of the can.

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[–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

Shady backdoor deal with bounty I bet

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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 80 points 8 months ago (4 children)

...do people think the tall can is bigger? If anything, I've always assumed that they were smaller 🤷‍♂️

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 201 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

(I don't know why this image is transparent)

[–] Supervivens@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Oh hey we watched that video in my psych class. Funny phenomenon. Kids are dumb

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In my highschool psych class we actually went to an elementary school and did this experiment with the kiddos. It was a while ago but if I recall correctly, 9/10 times they thought tall = bigger. I bet some people never grow out of that mindset or at least at first glance our less smart brain goes “tall is big!”

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I guarantee these big corporations have psych majors working in their marketing teams and it's 100% intentional.

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

This exact image is what I had in mind when I saw this post. Lol

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[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 70 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The great thing is you don't need it.

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[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 61 points 8 months ago (4 children)

That's a 2.24x price increase. That's even beyond Argentina-hyperinflation levels of increase. Are we sure this is an apples-to-apples comparison? Like, was there a sale or bulk discount that made the shorter can relatively cheaper? I'm struggling to believe a retailer would engage in such a brazen markup in a single week. (Not to say it's not possible, but it's extreme enough that I'm not taking the word of some random hand-written graphic on the Internet.)

[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago

I mean... I'll regularly go to the grocery store and see soda prices vary by 200-300% week-to-week. Sure, it's all based around "sale" value, but it amounts to the same thing. If it's $9 for 2 12-packs one week and then $11 for a 12-pack the next week, it isn't an invalid markup because you had to buy 2 to get the first price.

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 49 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Several years ago mountain dew had the following prices

20 oz - $2

1 liter - $2

2 liter - $2

1.5 liter - $1

It wasn't a sale, they had these prices on several stores for over a year.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Honestly kinda based

Soda costs pennies, the plastic container is the bulk of the cost, and not much changes in plastic quantity between container sizes

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[–] apprehentice@lemmy.enchanted.social 49 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Always purchase by volume/weight, not container

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's not always an available option. If an ink maker deprecates old containers and starts selling smaller ones for almost the same price you can't just buy something else if you need consistency. Coca-Cola probably thinks that you can't just replace Coca-Cola®™© with substitutes and I know some people would agree

[–] apprehentice@lemmy.enchanted.social 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, I meant within brands. Drug packages are the worst. I've seen two boxes of the same drug side by side and the smaller box had more tablets. That is to say, containers can be deceptive. Look at the volume and weight of the product.

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[–] Zess@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Fuck corporations but I don't believe this for a second. People are just making this shit up now. Some dude scribbles some prices on a piece of paper and this whole website loses its mind.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I was going to say... who the fuck was paying $1.06/can for Coke to begin with? Hell, I saw one of those 32oz Big Gulp cups selling for $4 less than a week ago.

This all just looks made up and hysterical, because Americans cannot handle not having their sugary treats.

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[–] darn@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago (12 children)

if you're buying coke in america, you should get the 12 packs at grocery stores instead. it's anywhere between $5.99 to $8.99, which is less than a dollar per can

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 months ago

That’s fucking crazy. I stopped buying soda pre-covid, but I regularly got 4 12packs for $2.99 each up until at least 2019.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

most people are getting cans like that in a pinch tho, if you want a lot of cola, regular 2 liter plastic bottles (or even better, 6-packs of 1.5/2l) are a much better deal

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

I saw one of those thin cans the other day and thought, "that's a weird can shape, I don't know why someone would buy that."

Now it makes sense.

Edit: Also, I forgot about this- https://moneynotmoney.com/historical-price-of-coca-cola-in-united-states/

[–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The biggest absolute price decrease in the price of 2 liters of coca-cola was in 2015, when the price dropped by $-1.79, or -100%.

Coke was free in 2015? Or is there a script filing is these paragraphs and it's counting missed data points as zero?

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago

It dropped by -1.79 which means it became 1.79 more expensive.

AI is amazing lol

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[–] computerscientistI@lemm.ee 26 points 8 months ago (9 children)

Maybe you want to have a cup of tea instead? Way more cheap and healthy. Or buy some off-brand soda. It is just as much garbage as coca cola but at least it's cheap.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 27 points 8 months ago (14 children)
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[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

Drinking a Coke in 5 years:

[–] UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Soda is such a fucking profitable scam because it's mostly water and that resource is mostly free. The syrup and carbonation should be pennies compared to what it actually sells for.

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[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 21 points 8 months ago

Reason 500,000 to not buy any Coca Cola corp products

[–] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 18 points 8 months ago

As long as I stay mad at "those damn libs" then companies can raise prices with impunity. If nobody boycotts these innocent companies then stock prices will be able to surge.

Honestly though, I wish people understood that by blaming only inflation they're effectively giving companies a blank check to keep raising prices. Sigh.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 15 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Y'all, remember this is sugar water and even at $1.06 there's a significant profit margin.

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[–] NiPfi@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (11 children)

It's usually very small, but here, prices must also show how much 100g/100ml of something costs

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Then you get shops like M&S where all the expensive varieties of (for example) tomato are £/kg and the cheap ones are £/unit so you can't see the big price gap.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They “proved” the trick works by a couple years back, releasing some different flavors in that shape can. Too many of us paid the premium to get the different flavor, even knowing it’s just manufactured scarcity. I still miss the blueberry-acai Diet Coke. Maybe they came away with “weirdly shaped cans sell at bigger profit”

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If it's tall and slim, it worth more. This is true for both cans and people.

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