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places are adopting DRM soda cups to prevent free refills at Coca-Cola Freestyle machines... I hate this
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Soda is so insanely cheap and the markup is already extremely high. This is a shit move all around.
Alawys amazing to see anti-capitalism Era defend this kind of stuff.
Alawys amazing to see anti-capitalism Era defend this kind of stuff.
This is a feature, not a bug. Theme parks just wanna make money, but this is the rare intersection of that desire + the betterment of your health. Unless you WANT pre-diabetes I guess
I wish I had done a cost analysis of how much money I've saved by completely eliminating soft drinks from my life 10 years ago.
It's a greed thing. If they only cared about loss they'd do smaller cups + forced ice. Instead they're doing the equivalent of a medium drink, with forced ice, for 4 dollars. Feels weird seeing people stan for the corp on this. Especially at a place where costs are already so high.
Um, don't look in my grandpa's pantry. There may be MULTIPLE containers of stolen Red Robin seasoning.
I don't know I would say that much of anti-capitalism Era are the ones defending this.
My local Legoland has this. But I think it allows for refills from special cups every 15 minutes or so.
My local Seaworld has a food pass you can get, that allows for a meal every 60 or 90 minutes.
My local Seaworld has a food pass you can get, that allows for a meal every 60 or 90 minutes.
They seem to manage ok pretty much everywhere else in the world.
The $9 unlimited soda for a day with my annual pass cup is one of my favorite things about Universal as a local, actually. Soda or lemonade or icees everywhere in the park for that day, and the cup can clip to my belt or pack when I'm not using it.
Disney's dumb cup is for resorts only. Boo on that as a local. That doesn't help me at all.
Yes I know, I'm only speaking about this specific location. It was recently redesigned, the behind the counter area is pretty cramped. So I can see why they would opt for a solution that doesn't need to move the machines which would require them to shift a lot of things around back there.
These machines have many drinks that cannot cause diabetes.
I guess? But soda from a fountain costs the restaurant pennies. Charging a few bucks for a drink delivers a massive profit margin. Being stingy with soda is incredibly cheap. Might as well limit patrons to one napkin or one toilet flush; they costs the same as a soda refill.
Due to our Woke af Green Initiatives® we are limiting napkins and toilet flushes to 1 per customer per visit
LETS ALL DO OUR PART™
Yes this raises our profits why do you ask
they removed self serve dole whips a few years ago at the Poly, when they opened the Pineapple Lanai dole whip shop... :(
it's just a barcode? take a picture -- free soda for life
I've never been on a cruise (thankfully? due to severe motion sickness) but I always thought they were like all-inclusive resorts where the drinks flow freely. That's ridiculous
I've never been on a cruise (thankfully? due to severe motion sickness) but I always thought they were like all-inclusive resorts where the drinks flow freely. That's ridiculous
I think in fast food the highest margins are in the drinks and fries. Especially the drinks.
I don't buy that this is because some assholes abused it. This is just to squeeze a few more bucks from people.
It has nothing to do with stopping theft outside of the people who would sneak into the park areas with their water bottles and fill em with soda which people did used to do all the time. They have to let you bring in water, so folks would bring water, then dump out and fill with soda at the various fast service stops.
But really its just about making money, ppl die in the heat at these parks and buy tons of drinks, it's pure profit
But really its just about making money, ppl die in the heat at these parks and buy tons of drinks, it's pure profit
It's actually extremely greedy and nothing else, soda costs nothing and is marked up insane amounts. Homeless people can have all the soda they like as long as that's all they do.
The only one I've been on where the only thing you had to pay for drink wise was alcohol was Disney Cruise Line.
Celebrity, RC, Carnival, etc all sell packages.
but dont you see? this will surely stop soda consumption. corporations are doing this for our health and not to squeeze more money out of people!
Why do people care whether Mcdonalds is having a couple sodas taken? They are literally the highest profit margin in any business. Its just tap water and some extremely cheap syrup. Pennies/less than a penny per serving. I'm as pro capatalist as you will see on this forum and Im startled by these responses, its like r/hailcorporate up in here
Cruises are all about nickel and diming you on the separate packages.
Really? Soda has, like, a 90ish% profit margin. Cheap motherfuckers.
Dumb story:
The restaurant owner of my college job used to get on us all the time for taking soda on our lunch breaks. During a meeting he once said "how would you like it if I came in you're house and took a soda from your fridge?". I replied that if I had a thousand sodas in my fridge I wouldn't care. That same guy got me fired four years later (after he had sold his portion of the business) and my manager mentioned that he brought it up during the meeting on whether to get rid of me or not.
Dumb story:
The restaurant owner of my college job used to get on us all the time for taking soda on our lunch breaks. During a meeting he once said "how would you like it if I came in you're house and took a soda from your fridge?". I replied that if I had a thousand sodas in my fridge I wouldn't care. That same guy got me fired four years later (after he had sold his portion of the business) and my manager mentioned that he brought it up during the meeting on whether to get rid of me or not.
do a poll about punishing the poor. And don't be shocked at the results. I dare you.
It costs these businesses like 5¢ per fill and the people stopping in for nothing but a free refill are most likely 99% poor. Just let these folks have your nickel for fuck's sake.
This is new to me. Many food places in my area have the Coca-Cola Freestyle machines but hasn't implemented these refill limited cups. Only problem I have is the touch screens on the Freestyle machines are crappy, they don't immediately recognize the selection I make unless I start pounding on the screen and other people have had this problem as well.
theyre not a terrible value either depending on how long you stay. I like using mine at home since they're insulated and work pretty well. Nice souvenir.
Well of course they had to get rid of self-serve dole whip. How else was the Walt Disney Company going to make money??
Just curious, not that it's super helpful, but as a local, couldn't you technically walk out of Epcot through the IG or to the contemporary at the MK with a resort cup any time you wanted? Probably worth it even if you only bring it on Epcot days and use it resorts via the IG around crescent lake or even at Riviera maybe via skyliner on the way to HS.
edit: I haven't bought one the past couple years though so I apologize if I'm wrong with when they deactivate.