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> Why would anyone buy bottled water Some reasons: immediacy, taste, convenience, quality, lack of price sensitivity. > Why would anyone buy [prepackaged whit

> Why would anyone buy bottled water Some reasons: immediacy, taste, convenience, quality, lack of price sensitivity. > Why would anyone buy [prepackaged white bread] Texture, goes stale slower than fresh baked bread, sizing, taste, convenience. > Why would anyone buy [brand toothpaste vs store-brand toothpaste] Taste, familiarity, trust.

ilovecars2 9y ago
A colleague of mine purchases 12x 500ML bottles of Evian a week. That will be over 600 bottles of water in 2018, not including the bottled water he drinks at home. Sure, bottled water tastes a little better than tap water, but I can’t help but cringe at the thought of 600 plastic bottles going into landfill. I avoid bottled water as much as possible, however when required I admit I do purchase 6 packs of 2L bottles for long road trips.
- wutbrodo 9y ago
  > Sure, bottled water tastes a little better than tap water I guess it depends on where you live, but this is definitely not the case for me. And I live in a 111 year old building.
  - lancewiggs 9y ago
    Old lead pipes apparently do make water taste sweeter...
- lwansbrough 9y ago
  I did this when I was in Thailand and thought it was completely insane and wasteful. It's shocking people do this because they don't like the taste of their tap water. Just purify it if you hate it that much? Also, the taste of any water pretty much disappears once you get used to it, so the thought of someone hating tap water is just absurd.
adwhit 9y ago
People do buy these things, so clearly there must be reasons for doing so. Point is, are they good reasons? And are they real reasons, or have they been put there by some big (and yes, evil) corporation? The BBC did a wonderfully subversive 3-part documentary a few years ago called "The foods that make billions", which investigates in some depth the way people's tastes have been shaped to accept anything the food industry comes up with (no matter how disgusting in concept). Well worth tracking down on YouTube or whatever (particularly the episode about yoghurt, which I found grimly hilarious).
0942v8653 9y ago
>> Why would anyone buy [brand toothpaste vs store-brand toothpaste] > Taste, familiarity, trust. That's the idea; familiarity and trust can be manufactured through advertising. You can become familiar with a brand name just by being exposed to it, and trust is harder but advertisers have it down to a science in some important ways.
- jjeaff 9y ago
  There is more to trust than advertising. You also must produce a consistent product.

ilovecars2 9y ago

A colleague of mine purchases 12x 500ML bottles of Evian a week. That will be over 600 bottles of water in 2018, not including the bottled water he drinks at home. Sure, bottled water tastes a little better than tap water, but I can’t help but cringe at the thought of 600 plastic bottles going into landfill. I avoid bottled water as much as possible, however when required I admit I do purchase 6 packs of 2L bottles for long road trips.

wutbrodo 9y ago
> Sure, bottled water tastes a little better than tap water I guess it depends on where you live, but this is definitely not the case for me. And I live in a 111 year old building.
- lancewiggs 9y ago
  Old lead pipes apparently do make water taste sweeter...
lwansbrough 9y ago
I did this when I was in Thailand and thought it was completely insane and wasteful. It's shocking people do this because they don't like the taste of their tap water. Just purify it if you hate it that much? Also, the taste of any water pretty much disappears once you get used to it, so the thought of someone hating tap water is just absurd.

adwhit 9y ago

People do buy these things, so clearly there must be reasons for doing so. Point is, are they good reasons? And are they real reasons, or have they been put there by some big (and yes, evil) corporation? The BBC did a wonderfully subversive 3-part documentary a few years ago called "The foods that make billions", which investigates in some depth the way people's tastes have been shaped to accept anything the food industry comes up with (no matter how disgusting in concept). Well worth tracking down on YouTube or whatever (particularly the episode about yoghurt, which I found grimly hilarious).

0942v8653 9y ago

>> Why would anyone buy [brand toothpaste vs store-brand toothpaste] > Taste, familiarity, trust. That's the idea; familiarity and trust can be manufactured through advertising. You can become familiar with a brand name just by being exposed to it, and trust is harder but advertisers have it down to a science in some important ways.

jjeaff 9y ago
There is more to trust than advertising. You also must produce a consistent product.