[bluedino]

How much margin do you think there is in coffee or soft drinks?

[rad_gruchalski]

Apparently nowhere near the 8000%. After https://www.profitableventure.com/income-soda-retailers-marg...:

> Restaurants and bars have around a 70% profit margin on a bottle of soda and soft drink, while retailers typically have between 30–50%.

[jollybean]

First - that is 'huge margin' far beyond their other offerings, but on fountain soda it's much greater.

Theatres make 0% margin on the Ticket and probably 90% on the soda and popocorn.

The analogy is reasonable: 'The Food' , 'The Film' or 'The EC2's are the primary ticket item and it's ballpark competitive on a cost basis.

AWS is not competing to be the cheap, low-margin host for YourFreeImageSite.Com and so their prices are going to be different on that point.

[adventured]

Coke and Pepsi have that kind of mark-up on their aluminum can sugar water products.

[bluedino]

What about a $3 Coke in a vending machine?

At a grocery store: 24 pack of Coke being $7 but one 20oz bottle being 1.99?

Or that $6 coke at the movies, ballpark, or Disneyland?

[rad_gruchalski]

$7 for 24 cans of Coke? I live in a wrong country.