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Just take a trip to your local grocery store and see how many water bottle brands there are, selling the exact same product that you get for free out of your fa

Just take a trip to your local grocery store and see how many water bottle brands there are, selling the exact same product that you get for free out of your faucet at home.

namaria 2y ago
In my corner of Europe the cool kids from the business course all start some sort of bottled drink company. Getting picked up by the big supermarket chain is always commemorated with cringe LinkedIn posts.
- xenospn 2y ago
  1. Copy liquid death 2. Raise money 3. Profit
  - neerajdotname2 2y ago
    Absofuckinglutely.
  - al_borland 2y ago
    I was at a local event my city was hosting and the only water option was Liquid Death. It felt criminal to charge as much as they did for water in a fancy can, but I wasn’t going to order soda just so I could feel like I’m paying for something. It was probably 2 years ago and I’m still bothered by it. The world needs less of this, not more. I’ve been to a couple cities in Europe that were very proud of their water. Hotels and restaurants advertised that they served tap water, and the bottled water was proudly bottled tap water. There were filling stations around town to get more of this water for free. I want more of this, and less Liquid Death. Invest in the local water supply, not marketing companies with the laziest product possible.
    - m3047 2y ago
      Where I live (Tacoma WA if anyone wants some) there are wellheads you can go to and get water for free. I use it for brewing beer (because of the mineral content). I've never seen anyone else filling. I was curious so I asked, and they measure how much water people take and it's only in the hundreds of gallons a month per wellfield. There has to be over 200,000 people within five miles of one of these wellheads.
      - xenospn 2y ago
        I think Americans simply distrust things that are: 1. Free 2. Provided by the city
    - mixmastamyk 2y ago
      At least they are using aluminum instead of plastic.
      - al_borland 2y ago
        Aluminum cans are typically lined with plastic.
        mixmastamyk 2y ago
        How does recycling work then? Or they burn off the plastic?
    - xenospn 2y ago
      I was in Lithuania recently and apparently they pump ground water directly into the city water system without any filtration. It's that clean, and it tastes amazing. Gotta watch out for old soviet pipes, tho.
      - neerajdotname2 2y ago
        Without filtration. That means the shit got to be real. Amazing.
roncesvalles 2y ago
It's that simple. If you can wrest just 0.1% of the American bottled water market with a 10% profit margin, it'd make you silly rich.
- xenospn 2y ago
  easier said than done
  - deleted 2y ago
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Just take a trip to your local grocery store and see how many water bottle brands there are, selling the exact same product that you get for free out of your faucet at home.

namaria 2y ago

In my corner of Europe the cool kids from the business course all start some sort of bottled drink company. Getting picked up by the big supermarket chain is always commemorated with cringe LinkedIn posts.

xenospn 2y ago
1. Copy liquid death 2. Raise money 3. Profit
- neerajdotname2 2y ago
  Absofuckinglutely.
- al_borland 2y ago
  I was at a local event my city was hosting and the only water option was Liquid Death. It felt criminal to charge as much as they did for water in a fancy can, but I wasn’t going to order soda just so I could feel like I’m paying for something. It was probably 2 years ago and I’m still bothered by it. The world needs less of this, not more. I’ve been to a couple cities in Europe that were very proud of their water. Hotels and restaurants advertised that they served tap water, and the bottled water was proudly bottled tap water. There were filling stations around town to get more of this water for free. I want more of this, and less Liquid Death. Invest in the local water supply, not marketing companies with the laziest product possible.
  - m3047 2y ago
    Where I live (Tacoma WA if anyone wants some) there are wellheads you can go to and get water for free. I use it for brewing beer (because of the mineral content). I've never seen anyone else filling. I was curious so I asked, and they measure how much water people take and it's only in the hundreds of gallons a month per wellfield. There has to be over 200,000 people within five miles of one of these wellheads.
    - xenospn 2y ago
      I think Americans simply distrust things that are: 1. Free 2. Provided by the city
  - mixmastamyk 2y ago
    At least they are using aluminum instead of plastic.
    - al_borland 2y ago
      Aluminum cans are typically lined with plastic.
      - mixmastamyk 2y ago
        How does recycling work then? Or they burn off the plastic?
  - xenospn 2y ago
    I was in Lithuania recently and apparently they pump ground water directly into the city water system without any filtration. It's that clean, and it tastes amazing. Gotta watch out for old soviet pipes, tho.
    - neerajdotname2 2y ago
      Without filtration. That means the shit got to be real. Amazing.

roncesvalles 2y ago

It's that simple. If you can wrest just 0.1% of the American bottled water market with a 10% profit margin, it'd make you silly rich.

xenospn 2y ago
easier said than done
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