[committee] Increasing the price of Coke

[Anil Sharma <Grand Poobah Maset>]

It's always been about profit.  Notice how we sell stuff (or at least we 
used to) at higher prices than UniSFA and UniGames?  Convenience of coke 
credit goes a long way.  Back in the day we used to screw around with 
prices to see exactly how high we could get them before people started 
going to other clubs to buy drinks.  Coke makes UCC a lot of money so we 
can buy machines and other stuff.

Large coke runs down to Claremont/Floreat/Subiaco isn't too hard, and 
every member in coke group is responsible for participating in these runs. 
Coles/Woolworths will always be cheaper than the IGA, and often do 
specials like $9.99 for a 24 can block.  Just turn up and see if you're 
lucky.

Cheers,
Anil
(procrastinating)

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Alix Chinnery wrote:

> Strongly against this idea. Or at least the part about putting coke up to $1. 
> I didn't realise it was about profit? It shouldn't be. Providing a service to 
> club members shouldn't be about profit. Some gain is good, sure, it allows us 
> to get things for the club. But a small increment on coke prices isn't going 
> to pay for a new computer.
> -Alix
>
> Scott Young wrote:
>> What do you guys think about raising the price of Coke?
>> 
>> I'm thinking of increasing it to $1 or so. I don't think it would
>> really impact sales all that much, but it would make a difference in
>> the continuity of the coke supply: currently the price of it at IGA
>> Broadway is ~83c a can, which doesn't give us much profit at all if we
>> sell it.
>> 
>> Of course, I'd suggest that we still continue to try to get coke as
>> cheap as possible whenever possible, but there's no easy way to find
>> out which places are selling it for ~50c a can, and I think we'd be a
>> lot better off just buying a few cartons from Broadway every now and
>> then to cover the periods when there's none available (like now).
> -- 
> Alix Chinnery
> secretary '08
> UWA
> a.e.chinnery at gmail.com
>