[committee] Increasing the price of Coke

[Grahame Bowland]

Hey guys

A quick grep says we've sold about 547 cokes since Jan 2, so about 5.5
cokes a day in the 99 days in the current cokelog.

Extrapolating, we can expect to sell approximately 2000 cokes a year,
so shoving the price up 14c to $1 adds an  estimated additional $281 a
year to our gross earnings from coke, and I presume most of that would
be profit as we're not insane enough to pay more than 86c for a can of
the stuff.

Of course, UCC would be more expensive than Unigames and UniSFA, so
sales may drop somewhat..

Grahame

On 10/04/2008, Anil Sharma <Grand Poobah Maset> <maset at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>
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