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?

Comments

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Penn and Teller (on their Showtime series Bullshit!, in season 1, I think) did a great bit with bottled water. They literally had a water somalier at a nice fancy schmancy restaurant, who described to the customers in great detail why this bottle of water was worth 4.95, and that bottle was worth some other amount, and did tastings ... people really thought they tasted a difference. He filled each of the bottles from the same hose in the back of the restaurant ... (with great glee, but that was just the guy doing it). It was hysterical. The Amazonian bottle was hysterical, because it had a "spider" in it ... (it was a plastic spider, I'm sure, but ...). Anyway, worth watching for the laughter and reaction on people's faces ...

[lifeofglamour.livejournal.com]

I saw it! :-) I almost retched when they drank the spider water.