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Originally Posted by Rattlesnake Guy
I was one of those kids walking the streets in the 60s picking up bottles for $0.02 each. Two cents was worth the effort to this kid. That was the free market at work. Not a government program with layers of bureaucrats making a living out of it with hopes of poor redemption to make profits. The good old days. Coke paid the retailer money to get the bottle back so they could wash it and use it again and again.
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I was selling Coke and Cott back in the early fifties. Coke was .035 per 6 oz bottle plus the .02 deposit. I was selling to golfers for .15 and I got 98% of the bottles back to return to Coke. Not a bad profit margin.