AMEX soft drink mark-up

[Peter Grummit]

Maybe I am just tight, but I thought I'd calculate the profit mark-up on soft drinks sold in the East Stand brasserie bar.

J20 £3 wholesale 75p = 525%
Pepsi 200ml bottle £2.50 wholesale 41p = 610%

This is without bulkbuy purchasing power, just based on an internet small order price. Now I know there are staff costs etc. but am I alone in thinking we are being ripped off? Don't be too grateful for the 10% you get back on your smartcard prepay.

PG

 

[Return of the Rev]

Maybe I am just tight, but I thought I'd calculate the profit mark-up on soft drinks sold in the East Stand brasserie bar.

J20 £3 wholesale 75p = 525%
Pepsi 200ml bottle £2.50 wholesale 41p = 610%

This is without bulkbuy purchasing power, just based on an internet small order price. Now I know there are staff costs etc. but am I alone in thinking we are being ripped off? Don't be too grateful for the 10% you get back on your smartcard prepay.

PG

barbie?

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Maybe I am just tight, but I thought I'd calculate the profit mark-up on soft drinks sold in the East Stand brasserie bar.

J20 £3 wholesale 75p = 525%
Pepsi 200ml bottle £2.50 wholesale 41p = 610%

This is without bulkbuy purchasing power, just based on an internet small order price. Now I know there are staff costs etc. but am I alone in thinking we are being ripped off? Don't be too grateful for the 10% you get back on your smartcard prepay.

PG

I imagine it's like that in most entertainment centres across the country. O2 arena, Thorpe Park etc. If the demand is there they will sell at that price. I've never bough anything from the Amex because it's a rip off, just take a bottle of coke in your bag next time and avoid the large fees.

 

[Safeway]

I imagine it's like that in most entertainment centres across the country. O2 arena, Thorpe Park etc.

Exactly. Not really sure what point the thread stater is trying to make, apart from stating the obvious.

 

[Stat Brother]

It's always been this way.

Pubs make more money from soft drinks than they do alcohol.

 

[Deleted member 18477]

Soft drinks are expensive everywhere. A coke in a pub these days is £2+.

 

[8ace]

The cola that is on tap is probably an even bigger rip-off, but no different to anywhere else as has been said.

 

[seagullondon]

The cola that is on tap is probably an even bigger rip-off, but no different to anywhere else as has been said.

£1 for a J20 in Wetherspoons! If only they had one in Haywards Heath

 

[T soprano]

Soft drinks are expensive everywhere. A coke in a pub these days is £2+.

It's gone now but I remember going in the green jacket in shoreham a few years back and the bloke was trying to charge me £3 for a pint of lime & soda ( Er don't think so mate I think was my reply ) not surprised it shut down

 

[Worthingite]

Be grateful of the prices at the Amex, have you been to the cinema lately? Daylight bloody robbery - an average portion of postmix costs in the region of 6p per serving, and Cineworld are pumping a MEDIUM out at £2.90.

 

[vegster]

It's always been this way.

Pubs make more money from soft drinks than they do alcohol.

Indeed, a landlord I once knew said he bought cola concentrate at about £3 a gallon....that made him about £100 before it ran out.

 

[T soprano]

Be grateful of the prices at the Amex, have you been to the cinema lately? Daylight bloody robbery - an average portion of postmix costs in the region of 6p per serving, and Cineworld are pumping a MEDIUM out at £2.90.

I can't believe people actually pay these prices at the cinema it's expensive enough just to see the bloody film let alone £4 for popcorn £3 coke
Film = £8.50
Popcorn = £4
coke =£ 3
family of four roughly adds up to £60 to watch a 85 minute cartoon fooking Goody A

 

[Worthingite]

I can't believe people actually pay these prices at the cinema it's expensive enough just to see the bloody film let alone £4 for popcorn £3 coke
Film = £8.50
Popcorn = £4
coke =£ 3
family of four roughly adds up to £60 to watch a 85 minute cartoon fooking Goody A

Too f***ing right. Have you ever tried taking your own sweets to the cinema? Don't - the staff (certainly in the Chichester Cineworld) are like the bloody SS. I just give going to the cinema a swerve now.

 

[Deleted member 18477]

It's gone now but I remember going in the green jacket in shoreham a few years back and the bloke was trying to charge me £3 for a pint of lime & soda ( Er don't think so mate I think was my reply ) not surprised it shut down

What a cock he must have been. Lime and soda is usually about 60p. Use to be 20p!

 

[Deleted member 18477]

Too f***ing right. Have you ever tried taking your own sweets to the cinema? Don't - the staff (certainly in the Chichester Cineworld) are like the bloody SS. I just give going to the cinema a swerve now.

Not that i take sweets but Erm you could put them in your coat pocket? In the summer its harder but I'd just take a different shape pack if I was that desperate (single pack of wine gums, fruit pastilles etc.)...I'd never pay there rip of prices thought in the cinema. Bloody joke!

 

[fire&skill]

Too f***ing right. Have you ever tried taking your own sweets to the cinema? Don't - the staff (certainly in the Chichester Cineworld) are like the bloody SS. I just give going to the cinema a swerve now.

Odeon Brighton never check. And the staff wear name badges with their favourite film on. Nice touch.

 

[MORTY]

You can buy a bottle of JD from a supermarket at £14 and get 30 odd shots out of it and say £2.50-£3 a shot in a pub. What's your point?

 

[Beach Hut]

Maybe I am just tight, but I thought I'd calculate the profit mark-up on soft drinks sold in the East Stand brasserie bar.

J20 £3 wholesale 75p = 525%
Pepsi 200ml bottle £2.50 wholesale 41p = 610%

This is without bulkbuy purchasing power, just based on an internet small order price. Now I know there are staff costs etc. but am I alone in thinking we are being ripped off? Don't be too grateful for the 10% you get back on your smartcard prepay.

PG

Given the current economic situation you are not tight, everyone questions costs of everything these days looking at what is value for money.

 

[Peever]

The cola that is on tap is probably an even bigger rip-off, but no different to anywhere else as has been said.

Much bigger rip off

 

[SeagullSongs]

Odeon Brighton never check. And the staff wear name badges with their favourite film on. Nice touch.

Instant way to judge their character