Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
aemeijers wrote:

The cost of the beer is trivial- what you are buying is the experience.
And for a certain subset of bars and/or beer drinkers, long-necks are a
vital part of the experience. Think bars where most of the people are
wearing hats. The washing and refilling is not expensive- that is mostly
automated. What is expensive is hauling the empties back and sorting and
inspecting them. Lotsa fuel burned, lotsa manual labor.

(Even for those of us who don't insist on glass, look at the cost per
ounce in a keg, once you get the deposit back, versus the cost in cans
sold retail. The beer is close to free- you are paying mostly for the
shipping and the handling of the containers.)


I understand and concur, but still don't see the difference between
refilling a coke bottle and refilling a beer bottle, that would make the
one economically viable and the other one not.
Beer, at least in the refillable bottles, is sold a lot fewer places,
and the customers don't mind paying a buck fifty a bottle?

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