What happened to the 5 cent soda pop? PLEASE ANSWER!?

Question

I am working on a school project (social studies fair) and it involves getting information from real people, so it would be GREAT if you could help. : )

Answer 1

Coca Cola and Pepsi prices
Tracing price histories for specific products (even ones as famous as Coca Cola and Pepsi) can be a complicated project. Why? Point of purchase (vending machine, grocery store, restaurant, army PX?), product size (10 ounce cans, 8 ounce glass bottles, 2 litre plastic bottles), and economic factors (sugar availability) all play significant roles. Most products do not maintain a uniform presence throughout the years. Unless the company itself has conducted such a study, the best you can do is approximate. If this is the case, base your study on price per ounce rather than container.

A note about canned soda:
Coca cola began selling its products in cans in 1940, two years after the first soda in cans (Cliquot brand ginger ale) went to market. Our research indicates these cans cost 5 cents each. About Coca Cola in cans:

"Coca-Cola had tested their product in cans as early as 1940. They tried a 16-ounce and 32-ounce cone top can with a red, green and white logo that read "canned specially for use at home and on outings." Coca-Cola began selling cans to overseas armed services in 1955 and, in 1959, test marketed cans in five U.S. cities. By 1960, however, it was Royal Crown that was selling the most canned soft drinks. Inspired by the new competition, Coca-Cola began using and promoting cans on a large scale soon thereafter. The soft drink maker even introduced a new label design specifically for their canned product called the "Harlequin" which featured a pattern of diamonds and proved popular with consumers."
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Survey of historic U.S. prices for Coca Cola and Pepsi
Notes: We include unit size whenever possible; some old newspaper advertisements exclude this piece of data. Pricing for these two products is generally competitive, meaning they are approximately the same on average. A sale one week for Coca Cola is likely be matched the next by Pepsi.

[1886]
When Coca Cola was launched in 1886, it was offered free to customers in drug store soda fountains. This popular period marketing strategy soon created a demand for the product. About Coca Cola.

[1887-1959] According to the book Value of a Dollar the price of Coca Cola (by the glass or bottle) was five cents. This book extracts its information from advertisements.

[1942] Advertisement placed in the Daily Record [Morristown, NJ] newspaper, Pepsi .05/bottle
[1944] Daily Record, Coca Cola, .05/bottle
[1945] Daily Record, Pepsi, .23/six 12 ounce bottles
[1968] Value of a Dollar, Pepsi, .59/6pack of 10oz bottles
[1972] Daily Record, Pepsi, .69/six-pack 12 oz cans
[1974] Daily Record, Pepsi Cola, .88/6 12oz cans
[1982] Daily Record, Coke, .99/1 litre bottle
[1985] Daily Record, Pepsi, .89/2 litre bottle
[1992] Daily Record, Coke, 6.98/two 12-packs 12 oz cans
[1994] Daily Record, Coca Cola, 3.99/two "12" packs
[1995] Daily Record, Coca Cola, .59-.99/2 litre bottle
[2002] Daily Record, Coca Cola .99/2 litre bottle
[2005] Daily Record, Coca Cola, 1.09/2 litre bottle

Answer 2

I remember buying soda in a bottle for 5 cents and I remeber picking up bottles thrown along the road and streets taking them back to the store and receiving 2 cents per bottle for them. Which meant my soda had only cost me 3 cents and sometimes I returned so many bottles that it was actually free.

Golly, we were so poor that my actuall allowance was only 25 cents a week, lets see the kids today survive on that!

Bringing emepty bottles back meant that I was getting almost $1.00 in spending money a week. I was in 7th Heaven.

The 5 cent bottle went the way of the dinosaurs. It left because the soda's company were trying to refine and make better their sodas. Research costs money. As they improved, they needed to raise their prices to cover their costs so that they could make a profit. Thus soda became more and more expensive.

Enempty bottles of sodas from yesterday bring in good money to collectors. Full bottles of soda that have never been touched and cap in place bring in even more. I once sold a full bottle of Coca Cola for $13.00 now the price is even higher.

Much more than when I was collecting them. When the soda companys went into can's I missed my extra spending money. Can's weren't worth much back then.

Now I live in Washington and they pay nothing for soda cans. While in California they pay over a $1.00 a pound. The last time I went to California I took 15 large garbage bags of crushed cans from here in Washington that said Ca. redemption on them. The recyclers in California paid me $74.82 and that paid for my round trip to California where I was visiting family and friends.

Answer 3

inflationary pressures, meant that to keep the pop at 5 cents they had to begin by reducing the volumn of the drink in the bottle. then they had to remove the sugar, then the colorant, then reduce the volume even more. Eventually there was so little in the bottle they decided they were better not selling it at all. Now the empty bottle costs more than 5 cents. so you cant buy a five cent soda pop any longer.

Answer 4

same as the 5 cent bubble gum the pay for people raised so the prices had to its really no different now you can get 25 cent pop

Answer 5

It popped!
I remember when I was eight or nine years old, one Saturday afternoon I mentioned to my Dad that he never gave me any allowance, and could I have a quarter: So he gave it to me. I said: "Don't expect me home for supper, Dad!"
I went to the village restaurant, and ordered French fries, a hot dog, and a coke. It all fit into the 25 cents. (No, I'm not 120 years old. I'm just 57!).

Answer 6

The same thing that happend to penny candy, Costs of product and inflation caused the price to rise.

Answer 7

inflation as well as figuriong out they could get people to pay a dollar for something that costs 13 cents to produce....profit baby

Answer 8

everything goes up in price the cheapest I remember was a dime when they soda coca cola in bottles glass ones back them seemed to tast better out of glass rather than plastic

Answer 9

When I first read your question I thought you must have just awoken from a coma you'd been in for the past 50 years.

Answer 10

Regarding prices, the only thing that never goes up is my age (I'm a senior citizen).