cant find

[gundog]

any cheap soda. at least not on a regular basis anymore.  back around the holidays something was on sale somewhere every week.  I used to try to not buy soda at Sams, but lately that seems to be the cheapest.  I havent seen coke on sale around here since the holidays.  I just payed $4.28 for a 12 pack of cherry coke zero cans and $6.98 for case of mountain dew cans at Wal-Mart.

The bitter-sweet of it is I just agreed to place a machine at 50 cent cans.  I think I was just so floored that they were even considering letting me place the machine that I wasn't thinking when the manager asked me about price --I just blurted  out well 50 cents is the very lowest I can sell them for.  duh???  Learning experience I guess.

It was an easy placement so hopefully if it works out I will be able to raise price by summer or so. 

Here is how I got the stop.  I was at another stop I have and I saw a lady walking across a 4 lane highway with at least 4 fountain drinks and a bag.  She had just come from the quick mart and was walking into a decent size bank.  So the little light bulb goes off- either they don't have soda machine or it is out of service.  So I go over to the bank, ask for manager, told him I saw his employee walking across busy highway to get soda, talk with him for maybe 2 minutes and he says yeah, we will do this.  This was Tuesday and I am placing machine tomorrow.  Dont get much easier than that.

I know banks arent high $$ stops, but I have a can soda machine I bought for $175 to put there,  this stop is right across the road from another, and both are close to my house.  if it does a case a week I will be happy.  Anyway, kinda ramblin. 

[mission vending]

50 cents??? Yup that's a lesson learned.

Around here the bottlers usually run their specials around the major holidays, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas. Usually 2 weeks before the holiday and the week of the holiday. So when it's on special stock up.