In the latest sign of the growing economic crisis, soda prices are on the rise at the machine in the CAP 10th floor kitchen. Specifically, a twenty ounce bottle of Diet Coke that used to cost $1.00 now costs $1.25. Interestingly, however, the price of a twelve ounce can has stayed flat at $0.65. I made a chart illustrating the per-ounce implications:

Strikingly, the volume discount has gone away and been replaced with a volume penalty, surely the result of some kind of chaos in the soda markets. We need a bailout!
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