Pretty soon, we're talking real money

[madbaker]

We have subsidized soda machines at work. About a year ago, they started carrying bottled water. My cow-orkers go through four or five bottles each every day.

While that's healthy of them, I don't understand the economics of it all. At a quarter apiece, it's not huge dollars but a buck a day is $20-25 per month. We live in the SF Bay Area and get our water from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir. It's very pure - there was even a short-lived attempt to sell it.

Why would anyone spend money on bottled water when free stuff from the tap tastes as just good or better?

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[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

I know one person (not local, so don't ask) who buys a certain brand of bottled water because they "read somewhere" that it's bottled by a team of minimum-wage wage-earners...

... and they want to make sure those people keep their jobs.

I think it's 'social responsibiliby' taken a step or two too far.