Why is bottled water often more expensive than other soft drinks?

[Lliam]

[AI Opinion]

Bottled water seems simple, but you often pay for more than the liquid itself 💧

There’s branding and marketing that sell “purity” and lifestyle. Many brands invest in source protection, filtration, mineral balancing, and quality testing. Packaging and transport costs are similar to sodas, but sodas are usually made by giant companies with huge scale, aggressive pricing, and strong competition, which keeps their prices lower.

[Lliam]

Mindless bot.

[ohsheeT]

Because fools will pay for something that was given to us free

But they are smart they put it in a bottle for you they you can buy it anywhere.

Why didn't you just bring it with you

Now the next mistake is where did the water come from

Not all water is created equal maybe at one time is was but now water flows from copper pipes , galvanized pipes, plastic pipes

From different cities comes in different conditions most bottled waters are worse been drinking pool water

Even when a pool is cleaned it still has over 3,700 floating bacteria in it

Big names like Coca-Cola core is some of the dirtiest bottled water you can buy

[midnightmoon05]

No idea. We try to not buy bottled water. We drive 30 minutes once a month to a few towns away to refill our 5 5 gallon jugs. The spring water tastes fresh and crisp. It’s really cold coming down from the mountains.
we refill our stainless steel water bottles before we go out.
if we must buy, we just buy it. We never really compare prices since we don’t drink anything else. We wouldn’t know.

[MrChinaski]

There are fixed costs. The poor schmuck who is most willing to pay has to pay and bottled water drinkers are said schmucks, is my best guess.

[MrChinaski]

(If that is not clear, so to speak, it's like the guy next to you on the plane who paid twice as much as for his seat because he left it to the last minute to book and really needed this particular flight... the schmuck that is willing to pay, pays; if you all pay discounted prices the airline goes broke. Same thing for restaurants, cafes, vending machines.)

[Anonymous]

It's healthier so they know more people want that choice and it's summer. Supply and demand. Yay capitalism!

[AviatorTom]

Because they can.

[iCandice]

Cause it’s healthy. They want you get diabetes.