[committee] Increasing the price of Coke

[David Basden]

Much of that time was not during semester as well.

Traditionally coke has been a very significant source of income. We've
always been cheaper than UniSFA at least, and keeping it below $1 has
kept sales quite high.

We shouldn't be making a loss on it, but with the volume of Coke that
is drunk we don't need a 100% margin (although I realise that Scott
wasn't actually suggesting that much). I really, really think it should
be kept < $1 if possible, if only for the psychological effect.

David

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 06:04:24PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > >
> >
> >