Title: Mexican coke underground
Post by: vendobaldtops on January 11, 2006, 02:12:44 pm
Hi All,
There is a great article on the front page of The Wall Street Journal today about how the U.S. bottlers of Coca Cola are trying to stop the importation / "bootlegging" of Mexican glass bottled Coke into the U.S.
U.S. bottlers are trying to figure out how the "Hecho en Mexico" stuff gets in and who is supplying it. The retail guys are not talking and have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy...LOL.
I just want my Coca Cola in bottles at a reasonable price. It's easier for me to find Mexican Coke than it is the dinky 8 oz ones.made here...plus, there is no replacement for a Mexican Coke washing down a burrito with extra hot sauce on a sunny day...Jeez..when is lunch?
There is a great article on the front page of The Wall Street Journal today about how the U.S. bottlers of Coca Cola are trying to stop the importation / "bootlegging" of Mexican glass bottled Coke into the U.S.
U.S. bottlers are trying to figure out how the "Hecho en Mexico" stuff gets in and who is supplying it. The retail guys are not talking and have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy...LOL.
I just want my Coca Cola in bottles at a reasonable price. It's easier for me to find Mexican Coke than it is the dinky 8 oz ones.made here...plus, there is no replacement for a Mexican Coke washing down a burrito with extra hot sauce on a sunny day...Jeez..when is lunch?
Title: Mexican coke underground
Post by: DanV on January 11, 2006, 08:17:15 pm
I say they should come out with Coca Cola in 12 and 16 oz bottles and let the consumer pay a premium for it. Also put sucrose or cane sugar on the ingrediant list, not HFCS. I would pay extra for it.
Title: Mexican coke underground
Post by: DanV on January 11, 2006, 08:18:24 pm
Title: Mexican coke underground
Post by: Pixel on January 13, 2006, 01:28:24 am
I realize this is a bit off topic, but I want to know why those tiny 8 oz glass bottles of Coke that are made here in the US sell for over $3 for just one pack of 6. That's outrageous, more that twice regular retail for cans.
I stock my Cav bottle machine with cans because those glass bottles are IMO WAY too expensive.
I stock my Cav bottle machine with cans because those glass bottles are IMO WAY too expensive.
Title: Mexican coke underground
Post by: dr galaga on January 13, 2006, 05:40:13 pm
$3.00 - holy cow! Come to where I live and they are $4.59 for a six pack!!! 
Title: Mexican coke underground
Post by: Pixel on January 13, 2006, 06:00:52 pm
Ouch. 
I wouldn't pay that. I only got one pack at local price to test the machine out with.
Even at regular price, a 12-pack case of 12 oz Coke cans is usually around $3 - $3.50. I doubt they sell the
glass bottles very often, but when they do they're making a killing.
I wonder how much a case of glass bottle Cokes costs in Mexico.
I wouldn't pay that. I only got one pack at local price to test the machine out with.
Even at regular price, a 12-pack case of 12 oz Coke cans is usually around $3 - $3.50. I doubt they sell the
glass bottles very often, but when they do they're making a killing.
I wonder how much a case of glass bottle Cokes costs in Mexico.
Title: Mexican coke underground
Post by: halehouse on January 13, 2006, 06:04:11 pm
Or $4.99, but I've said before that I can get it through a friend's husband who drives for Coke for $7/case of 24. Well, he recently took a new job, but still has friends that can get it. Sam's ran around $10 a case, so that shows you the kind of mark-up the supermarkets are getting.
Title: Mexican coke underground
Post by: dr galaga on January 13, 2006, 06:31:21 pm
I just pick up a 6 pack when there is a new commemorative bottle out. So I pick up about 3 6-packs a year! 
Title: Mexican coke underground
Post by: johnieG on January 13, 2006, 10:35:05 pm
| Quote (dr galaga @ Jan. 13 2006,5:40) |
| $3.00 - holy cow! Come to where I live and they are $4.59 for a six pack!!! |
Sams Club has the small Cokes in a 24/case for 11.99 up here in Michigan...as for the Mexi-Cokes, they are all over this area, the problem "Coke" faces is that everyone & his cousin brings them up from the border states, so if they want to "stop" the import, they must (gawd forbid!) do what the market is telling them to do (duh!) put some of the 12oz in glass & sell them to people for petes sake! as far as I'm concerned with the big bad bottlers & there U.S. monopoly on the domestic distribution market is the following...the market rules...quit bitchn & start selling!
Title: Mexican coke underground
Post by: MoonDawg on January 14, 2006, 01:12:49 pm
| Quote (dr galaga @ Jan. 13 2006,2:40) |
| $3.00 - holy cow! Come to where I live and they are $4.59 for a six pack!!! |
But they will sell a plastic 2 liter bottle of the same product for 79 cents. Pretty profitable packaging gimmic.
Title: Mexican coke underground
Post by: davethebirdman on January 14, 2006, 01:40:58 pm
I'd just be happy to get hold of them.... $3.000, $5.00 even $10.00. I have to fill my own bottle up from the 2ltr Plastic Bottles.
Dave
Dave