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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I live in Texas.
Now for regular price, you may be right. All I know is if any of the big beverages are on sale at one store, they are on sale at all stores here.
Now sometimes Bud and Coors will both be on sale. (Labor Day, Memorial day and Super Bowl). I have never seen coke and Pepsi on sale at the same time.
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It must be a much different market here in the Northeast US, because I just checked, and both Coke and Pepsi are on sale at one grocery store this week.
ANYWAY...the whole point of this side discussion was to point out that, unlike e-books, prices on other products are NOT controlled by manufacturers, but by the retailer. This is even true of paper books.
Other products may have *suggested* retail prices, but they are just that...suggestions. Retailers are free to sell for whatever price they want. Yes...there are exceptions to that rule, and it seems as if Apple is one of the exceptions, but even with Apple products I can buy an iPod Nano for $129 from Walmart even though it's $149 from the Apple Store, so it seems that stores are *allowed* to discount, it's just that most don't.
Shari