people that pay $5 for a power bar or bottle of juice

[97guns]

My wife wants to work so I got her a new gig stocking shelves for a healthy foo foo drink called evolution fresh. I took her to 9 stores today, she stocked an average of 35 bottles at each with another left 70 for overstock. Today was our first day, but the trend looks like they are blowing through this stuff at $5 for 8oz. And $10 for the bigger size!

I was looking at some other items in the store and noticed $5 power bars getting gobbled up too. What kind of people are buying these things? These were all high end supermarkets that were packed, what kind of people shop these places?

[PeggyHefferon]

My wife wants to work so I got her a new gig stocking shelves for a healthy foo foo drink called evolution fresh. I took her to 9 stores today, she stocked an average of 35 bottles at each with another left 70 for overstock. Today was our first day, but the trend looks like they are blowing through this stuff at $5 for 8oz. And $10 for the bigger size!

I was looking at some other items in the store and noticed $5 power bars getting gobbled up too. What kind of people are buying these things? These were all high end supermarkets that were packed, what kind of people shop these places?

Healthy people

[LivingAlmostLarge]

people who think paying more makes it healthier.

[Shewillbemine]

I bet there are kids in Africa who would marvel at the amount of money you spent on the internet access that allowed you to post this topic.

Same for the phone/computer/laptop you used in the process.

$5 and $10 for ANYTHING is not that much money. Seriously.

[bjl584]

My wife wants to work so I got her a new gig stocking shelves for a healthy foo foo drink called evolution fresh. I took her to 9 stores today, she stocked an average of 35 bottles at each with another left 70 for overstock. Today was our first day, but the trend looks like they are blowing through this stuff at $5 for 8oz. And $10 for the bigger size!

I was looking at some other items in the store and noticed $5 power bars getting gobbled up too. What kind of people are buying these things? These were all high end supermarkets that were packed, what kind of people shop these places?

Makes me wish that I invented the stuff.

[bigdaddybus]

Want to know a persons priorities, look where they spend their time and money.

fancy juice and power bars provide no value to me so that's not where I spend my money, obviously others do.

[disneysteve]

I think it's ridiculous personally. I think LAL is on track saying some people think more expensive equals better.

Far more than stuff like this, though, that at least has some nutritional value that you can't get for free, I'm appalled at what people spend for water. I see people who drink 6 or 8 bottles of water every day that they BUY. I also drink a lot of water every day but I never pay for it (other than the household water bill which is dirt cheap). And when we are out anywhere, I drink tap water. Selling bottled water is the biggest scam ever.

[msomnipotent]

I would try it just to see if I liked it and could reproduce the taste at home.

[Spiffster]

You would have to have zero concept of the value of a dollar to spend $5 on a "power bar" of any sort. Same deal with bottled water. A fool and his/her money are soon parted.

[Fishindude77]

Not making a case for these products, I don't have much interest in them either. But ..... there is obviously a market for them, and some folks feel they are worth the money. Wouldn't want to live in a world where all of our choices were restricted to basic, generic, low cost items.

[snafu]

Has anyone on SA checked out the viability of buying stock in the most popular of these brands? Where do you see this market segment in 5 years? Is this a niche worth the risk short term?

[PeggyHefferon]

I think it's ridiculous personally. I think LAL is on track saying some people think more expensive equals better.

Far more than stuff like this, though, that at least has some nutritional value that you can't get for free, I'm appalled at what people spend for water. I see people who drink 6 or 8 bottles of water every day that they BUY. I also drink a lot of water every day but I never pay for it (other than the household water bill which is dirt cheap). And when we are out anywhere, I drink tap water. Selling bottled water is the biggest scam ever.

I used to feel the same way about bottled water, but there are many areas that do not have safe drinking water. Just read an article that only 9 states reported safe levels of lead in their school's water supply. I don't buy individual bottles but the 8 to 9 cents I pay is well worth it to me.

[bennkar]

I was looking at some other items in the store and noticed $5 power bars getting gobbled up too. What kind of people are buying these things? These were all high end supermarkets that were packed, what kind of people shop these places?

Bwah-ha-ha, I visited my mother over the weekend and went to a nearby surplus store. I bought 5 six-pack boxes of the 20-grams of protein power bars. Cost me $10 total, or $0.33 per bar . I eat around 4 of them per week (after my daily workouts), so they should hold me until my next visit there sometime this summer.

[disneysteve]

I used to feel the same way about bottled water, but there are many areas that do not have safe drinking water.

Obviously, that's an entirely different situation. If I go to Mexico, I buy bottled water, for example.

I'm talking about people who live places where the water is perfectly safe. I'm sure that very little of the bottled water sold happens in places with unsafe water supplies.

We go to Disney World regularly. All day long, I see guests buying bottled water for $3.50 a shot for themselves and their family members. Meanwhile, my family has a refillable sports bottle that we carry. We freeze it half full overnight and top it off with water in the morning and throughout the day from fountains or restaurants, adding more ice as needed. So we spend $0 while a family of 4 may spend $28 if they each have 2 bottles/day, maybe even more.

[PeggyHefferon]

Obviously, that's an entirely different situation. If I go to Mexico, I buy bottled water, for example.

I'm talking about people who live places where the water is perfectly safe. I'm sure that very little of the bottled water sold happens in places with unsafe water supplies.

We go to Disney World regularly. All day long, I see guests buying bottled water for $3.50 a shot for themselves and their family members. Meanwhile, my family has a refillable sports bottle that we carry. We freeze it half full overnight and top it off with water in the morning and throughout the day from fountains or restaurants, adding more ice as needed. So we spend $0 while a family of 4 may spend $28 if they each have 2 bottles/day, maybe even more.

Did you see the reference to just 9 states reported safe levels of lead in the school's water? 5,300 Water systems are in violation of lead rules impacting 18 million Americans.

It is extremely rare that I will buy a single bottle.