Why is it so difficult to buy carbonated water? My entire household likes it and we want to buy about 20 to 30 liters a week, and for years I’ve been buying Canada Dry brand “Seltzer” at a local liquor store. But Canada Dry’s local salesman told the store owner a few weeks ago that the company is no longer selling carbonated water in the eastern United States. Now the salesman won’t return his calls and the Canada Dry’s corporate office won’t answer his questions, telling him instead that he needs to cultivate a better relationship with the salesman. It’s become so difficult that he’s dropping Canada Dry products from his store altogether now.
He’s tried to get me Schweppe’s, but their parent company will not agree to distrubute product to him.
We’ve tried Vintage brand in the past, but kept getting flat cases - that is, the carbonation has leaked out of the bottle. We’re going to try that again but I have little hope for success.
I can buy it at grocery stores but that requires a lot of trips, a lot of waits in long checkout lines (I almost never get through the line in less than 20 minutes), and dealing with loose bottles in flimsy bags that tear and dump bottles everywhere. I think I’d stop consuming the product before I go to that much trouble. I have ordered case quantities of carbonated water at 3 different grocery stores but each time received mostly flat cases. Don’t know why they all did that, but it doesn’t look like a realistic option.
And even when it was not difficult to buy, for some reason it is generally more expensive than soda pop, which is the same product with corn syrup and dye and flavoring added. Sometimes it’s as much as about three times more expensive. Corn syrup may be kind of unappealing, but it’s a surprise that companies are willing to pay money to dispose of it.
The product I’m talking about here is, technically, water with carbon dioxide dissolved in it and nothing else. Its naming varies from place to place. My local liquor store owner just tried ordering me 3 cases from some division of Pepsi, and they sent him tonic water, which he and I both believe has corn syrup and flavoring and a tiny bit of quinine in it, but the Pepsi salesman insists that “tonic water” is what Pepsi calls carbonated water. Another related product, “Club Soda”, has a variety of salts mixed in, which I don’t like. Even naming the product consistently seems to be difficult.
Why in the world is it so hard to buy carbonated water?
Anybody here have much experience with those bottles you plug CO2 cartridges into, like the Three Stooges were so fond of?
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