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Costco Bad Tasting Water
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Re: Costco Bad Tasting Water
What did they sell water in before plastic bottles? Did they use glass bottles or tin cans?
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Re: Costco Bad Tasting Water
Bottled water was in 5 gal glass jugs inserted into coolers..remember those?They switched to plastic in the 70s. We didn’t have single serving drinking water until the 80s - except for spring waters like Perrier and San Pellegrino
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Re: Costco Bad Tasting Water
Bottled water for everyday use in single serve type bottles was not really even a "thing" until the early mid 90's. When it started they pushed "Spring Water" and it was marketed as a superior tasting product to the tap water. As time went on in the usual US retailer/poorly informed consumer race to the bottom fashion to get the price on water down and sell people more they started to bottle "purified" tap water and throw it into 24 .5 liter bottle type cases at $3 and suddenly the customer who used to go pay 0.79 for a 1 L "Spring Water" sees that screaming deal and takes the case of the little bottles of tap water not knowing they are getting an interior product.
For instance an Albertsons I remember which was demolished/replaced in 1995- the old store, had its bottled water at the cleaning supply aisle. Why? Because when the store was last reset (last time it had been reset was in the late 80's) the main bottled water being sold was distilled water for irons and such cleaning purposes. Not consumption. They had of course cut in the drinking waters too, but had them on the cleaning aisle. Most of the space was plastic gallon jugs of water or 2.5 gallon dispenser type units, and a lot of it was distilled (some was drinking or spring water). Also back then in the early 90's Raleys had the gallon jugs of water and 2.5 gallon jugs at a drink aisle but then had the single serve "Spring Water" bottles in the "Natural Foods" department. It was rare back then for stores to sell any form of bottled water cold.
There are some people who really do have to buy bottled water for their household consumption (hence the 1 gallon jugs or 2.5 gallon dispensing bottles) because water systems in their area are not reliable. They can do a filtration system, boil, etc. too; there are other options.