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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
According to my numbers: If you by a 24 pack of coke from Walmart at $4.97 it means you are paying .000583 cents per ml of coke.
If you buy the 2L bottle for .99 cents a bottle, it works out to .000495 cents per ml. So the two litre bottle is still the best deal.
The problem is you usually have to drink the whole 2 L bottle within a day or two of opening it. The cans are good if you don't drink much.
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Actually, your decimals are off. It's 0.0583 cents or 0.000583 dollars per mL for the cans and 0.0495 cents or 0.00495 dollars per mL for the bottles. You don't work for
Verizon, do you?
Also, because the deposits are charged per container, you'll pay $1.20 in deposits on the cans (5 cents each), but only 20 cents for a bottle. If you want an equal volume of pop: 24 cans has 8.52L of Coke, so you'd need a little over 4 bottles. If you bought 5 bottles, the deposit would be $1.00. The deposit is refundable, but you still have to incur the upfront costs and many people give their bottles and cans away, so they never reclaim the money.
A 24 can pack for $4.97 will actually cost $6.47 (after GST and deposit). 5 bottles at $0.99 each will cost $6.25 (after GST and deposit) and will actually give you 1.48L more Coke than the cans.
Whoa, too much Coke math.