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I'm in Austin, Texas for vacation and stopped by a supermarket to pickup some water. The supermarket is called HEB and it's a wildly popular chain here in Texas. I found a gallon of water for $2.29 Who the hell pays this much for water? I would pay this much for water only if it was certified to be from the fountain of eternal youth blessed by the gods.
I skipped this store and found a walmart and found a Gallon of Great Value drinking water for a $1.20 (this used to be a buck, inflation I guess).
What items have you seen at the store with outrageous prices? Do you notice anyone buying them?
Generally, people don't go to a grocery store to purchase only one item. And price isn't the only factor that goes into where they shop. Other things like quality, distance, convenience, etc. factor in.
I believe it's a specialty brand which probably accounts for the extra cost. I've never heard of it before. Here is the history. https://www.absopure.com/about/history/
Bottled water is great for those that don't have clean tap water. I've never been in that situation and hope never to be. I had a friend that had well water that stunk up the whole house. If you couldn't stand the smell, why would you drink it? Bottled water has a purpose most of us will never need.
Obviously, if money is the most important thing to you, a public water fountain is where you will find the cheapest water.
If you can find a public water fountain. One of the things that was most mysterious to me was closing public fountains during Covid. If public fountains were such a disease vector why didn't we dispense with them a 100 years ago?
Many places have simply never put their fountains back into service. I'm sure someone somewhere figured out they could save XX dollars yearly in plumbing and electricity costs by simply never turning them back on. One more thing Covid destroyed that used to be seen as practically a right.
Of course, I grew up drinking out of fountains and I live somewhere with high quality tap water, so I still use them when in public if they're available.
Well, I do pay for good water in 5 gallon bottles that I have delivered. It's around $9 for 5 gallons and that includes delivery. But we don't drink any sodas or alcohol or fancy coffee, so we save money there. And we're very healthy, so I'm not going to change anything to save a buck or two.
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Who the hell pays this much for water? I would pay this much for water only if it was certified to be from the fountain of eternal youth blessed by the gods.
