• @Dasus@lemmy.world
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    627 days ago

    Guys…

    The product is called Arizona Iced TEA. The main ingredient is… drumroll brewed tea.

    How many tea-farms do you know of in the US? There are some small-scale ones, but only one large-scale one at 127 acres.

    India has over 800 major estates and ~60,000 small tea gardens across the country

    • curbstickle
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      117 days ago

      And the costs are not high for the tea itself, which is my point. Its hard to say exactly which supplier, what component of flavoring, etc would be an issue for costs that caused an increase (or if they just wanted to use it as an excuse).

      Point is, it doesnt matter why. There are lots of imports for various materials for functionally any company in the US.

      • @Gerudo@lemmy.zip
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        97 days ago

        I’d assume that after years and years of absorbing rising prices, they just are finally at a point where they have to to stay afloat. I’m sure just the aluminum tariffs are a huge reason.

        • curbstickle
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          37 days ago

          I dont know about staying afloat, its just the one kind of can thats been under $1.

          That said, yeah they definitely have less wiggle than they used to. It also goes to show how much they were making on that 99 cent can back in the 90s.

      • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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        77 days ago

        I thought it might have something to do with protesting as well, a tad. I mean for sure their costs have gone up, as they have over the years. Exactly because they’ve kept the price the same on purpose and had that as a marketing point, they could now garner quite a bit of attention towards this tariff-idiocy by finally yielding and raising the price. It’s kind of a win-win for them, probably, unless the sales plummet.

    • Endymion_Mallorn
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      -117 days ago

      Then they should have long since been growing their tea and fruit in upstate NY, as well as focusing on sourcing their water responsibly.

      • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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        167 days ago

        Because, decades ago, they should’ve guessed that a demented clown will take over the US…?

        Seems a tad unreasonable.

        • Endymion_Mallorn
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          -97 days ago

          No, decades ago, they should have recognized that we should always focus on domestic production and domestic labor.

          • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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            127 days ago

            Good luck 1) growing tea and fruit in upstate NY and 2) finding the workforce for jobs that quite a significant portion of Americans are literally physically unable to perform.

          • user_name
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            117 days ago

            Why do nationalists always want to keep foreigners poor? What’s wrong with trade?

      • @ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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        27 days ago

        And when the crop doesn’t grow they’re they should just yell at the trees and kick them until they produce more.

        • Endymion_Mallorn
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          -37 days ago

          I’m actually less concerned about the specific price point. They sold the cans as a volume sale rather than individual profit.