re: What was the lowest price you ever bought a Coke for?

As I mentioned a few posts back, My Dad owned several service stations.

One time, somebody opened a new gas station across the street from 1 of his (It was actually a good friend of his), and on the opening day,they had a price war.... My Dad never lost a price war.

At about lunch time that day, he went for the throat, he dropped all prices down to 10 cents per gallon, that was Regular, Unleaded and Ethyl.
His help quit him that day, and Mom was sent to get me out of school, I was about 12.

When I got there, cars were lined up for 2 miles down the side of the highway, waiting to get in for that deal., News crews were there, and My Dad was having the best time of his life.
He just handed me a billfold full of cash(first time ever)to make change, and a pocket full of coin, and told me to be nice to everybody, and try to make them laugh.
We finally ran out of gas at about 11 pm that night,because the tanker drivers just wouldn't bring us anymore,if it weren't for that, I am pretty sure that I would still be there pumping gas right now.

Dad's theory on the price war was : we use the price to get them in here, but when they meet us, and find out how we treat them, most will become regular customers.Amazing how well that simple trick worked.
It was fun, and I got the next day out of school to rest.
When I went back to school, I was famous because I had been on TV.

About the same here, but we called it milk money, on Mondays, Dad would line us up at the door and give us our lunch money for the week, seems like that was 3 bucks. and with that, he would give us each a piece of advice for the week.

Actually here in Mexico City -- you can get a 600 for just under 75 cents.

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20c here or two dimes put a quarter in and get a nickle back after opening a vertical glass door on the machine and pulling the bottle out.

If you took the bottle they had a sign asking for a 5c deposit.

No fooling.

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I've got you beat.

When I was a kid, those same side door roller machines ... 10 cents for the coke and then you turned around and used the remaining 15 cents to almost fill your gallon metal gas can so you could cut four more yards and make four more quarters.

Best cokes ever came out of those machines. They had one in front of every gas station.

We used to walk the roads picking up peach baskets full of coke bottles then we'd take them to the local grocer and collect deposits.

Of course, those were the days when the milkman still came to your door. I remember when our milk cow died and we started getting milk delivered to our door. I thought we were living like rich folks. It was almost as good as seeing the Sears truck coming up the driveway delivering something. Usually a new pair of tennis shoes for one of my older brothers which, if they remained in one piece would eventually get handed down to me.

100 bucks for a ball

My church growing up had a Coke machine that they were 10c and they were the tall returnable bottles.

I can remember when these were the big thing, though I can't remember them being in a Coke machine.




They started adding the 4 oz free and moved from 16oz bottles to 20oz ones.