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Author Topic: Does bottled water sell? Rob Butler Film Handler Posts: 91 From: Westford, MA, USA Registered: Mar 2004 posted 06-03-2004 11:37 AM                     quote: Jeremy Fuentes $1.75 for a 20. oz bottle water here. Sells like crazy. But stupid Pepsi keeps sending the wrong kind. If it's still 2 parts Hydrogen and one part Oxygen, how can it be the wrong kind?  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 06-03-2004 11:43 AM                        It's all in the taste. Bottled waters live or die by the tiny amounts of minerals desolved in them, as opposed to distilled water, which is (or supposed to be) pure water. It's all in the taste.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 06-03-2004 11:59 AM                     quote: Rob Butler If it's still 2 parts Hydrogen and one part Oxygen, how can it be the wrong kind? They keep sending us tap water in old Pepsi bottles.  |  IP: Logged Michael Harlow Expert Film Handler Posts: 170 From: Faversham, Kent, UK Registered: Jul 2002 posted 06-03-2004 05:43 PM                     I sell water at my cinema. 500ml for 60p. I sell about 100 bottles a week on average.  |  IP: Logged Kyle Watkins Expert Film Handler Posts: 185 From: Stuart, FL, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 06-03-2004 06:16 PM                     we sell Dasani, and for $3.25, 20 oz bottle. and sells like crazy. $3.25 a bottle to me is to much. Kyle  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-03-2004 08:55 PM                        Dasani.. We well 15+ cases/week every week (on average).  |  IP: Logged James Pope Film Handler Posts: 31 From: world wide web, USA Registered: Mar 2002 posted 06-03-2004 10:15 PM                        Dasani $2.75 500ml, Evian $3.00 500ml Used to sell Fiji too $4.75 1pt sold like crazy till coke had a fit with it, not being there product "will rip out all of there coke towers if we kept on selling it.  |  IP: Logged Brandon Willis Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Richmond, VA, USA Registered: Apr 2004 posted 06-03-2004 11:02 PM                     Definitely go for the bottled water. It sells very well. Bottled juices are good also for people who can't have soda. At my theatre (Regal) we sell a 20 ounce and a 1 liter Dasani bottled water, as well as 12 ounce and 20 ounce Minute Maid. All of our bottled drinks sell very well. I'd say the best sellers are the 20 ounce water and the 20 ounce Minute Maids. We used to sell Fruitopia until it was discontinued.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-03-2004 11:37 PM                     It is definately a phenomena on how well it sells up here. Definately a "hot" item. Of course, we have excellent water quality up here for the most part. Actually, the very best water for drinking is from the evporators of the US Navy ships at sea - providing some person doesn't get the JP-5 valve tied in with the fresh water systems. When the Olympia Brewery in Tumwater, Washington was making their beer, their slogan was "It's the water..." Well, there was a cartoon that was drawn by someone where it pictured a big Indian Chief urinating in the stream upriver from the Olympia plant. The caption was, "It's the water..." About 30 years ago, I had a copy of that but it got away from me. If anyone has a copy, please send me one. Actually, Olympia was a darn good high quality beer. I think it was Miller Low Life out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin that eventually bought Olympia out. I think it was Miller bought out Rainier Beer, too. Rainier Beer was a crappy beer. It gave the drinker a case of the "Green Apple Two-Step"...(commonly known as the "Shizzling Drits") just like San Maguel Beer in the Philippines. Jeeze, that stuff was bad.....I drank enough of that stuff when I was in the Philippines. If you want your butt to leak, drink Rainier or San Maguel beer. That'll do the job. !!!! Edited for a typo. [ 06-04-2004, 12:59 AM: Message edited by: Paul G. Thompson ]  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-04-2004 01:11 PM                     Dasani water contains salt. That's why people think it "tastes so good" =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-04-2004 09:14 PM                        We started off selling the Aquafina (Pepsi) water at 20 oz for a dollar. We have a nearby convenience store that sells it for 79¢ so didn't feel we could get too much higher. Then Pepsi raised the price on it by a dime, so we said "the hell with it" and went to $1.50. Sales did not diminish. Then, Pepsi had a backorder on the Aquafina one week, so we substituted some local brand they carry called "Montana Treasure." I can't tell the difference between it and the Aquafina. But, MT costs us about 1/6 as much as Aquafina did, but we left the price at $1.50 and sales still did not diminish. So, not being idiots, we are still selling a buttload of Montana Treasure for $1.50/20 oz.  |  IP: Logged Ky Boyd Hey I'm #23 Posts: 314 From: Santa Rosa, CA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-05-2004 02:21 AM                       James, If your owners/management are letting Coke dictate what brand of water your theatre sells, they are crazy. Just because you sell Coke doesn't mean you are under any obligation to carry their entire product line. If the Fiji sells, stock it. We serve Coke and sell Crystal Gyser bottled spring water and bottled mineral water (plain, lemon and lime). Do you buy your Coke products from your Coke bottler or from your concessions supplier? We buy from Sysco, so we only see a Coke person about once a year or so.  |  IP: Logged Marcial Feliciano Ramos Expert Film Handler Posts: 108 From: Puerto Rico Registered: Oct 2003 posted 06-05-2004 11:25 PM                     We sell DASANI at $1.75  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 06-06-2004 12:56 AM                        quote: Ky Boyd Just because you sell Coke doesn't mean you are under any obligation to carry their entire product line. If the Fiji sells, stock it. Just don't stock it in the Coke cooler that Coke supplied you with. LOTS of theatres have fridges that they don't own, and in that situation Coke has good reason for not wanting someone else's product in their cooler. Some companies have also signed agreements to only carry Coke beverages in order to get much lower BIB prices. quote: James Pope coke had a fit with it, not being there product "will rip out all of there coke towers if we kept on selling it Whenever I get that crap I just ask if they happen to have the number for a local Pepsi rep.  |  IP: Logged Katie Smith Film Handler Posts: 9 From: Aberdeen, OH, USA Registered: Feb 2003 posted 06-06-2004 01:14 AM                     Hey guys, thanks for all your helpful and informative responses. Well yesterday we started selling the bottled water, dasani @ $2.75/20 oz. We sold 5 bottles. But we are a four plex, and we were slow (didn't get Harry Potter), also the weather has been kinda cool this weekend. So I am very optimistic that our sells will go up. Thanks again.  |  IP: Logged

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