They are notorious for going into small towns and undercutting local businesses until they go out of business then raise prices, they also severely underpay employees. And the owners are the wealthiest family in the world who use their money to lobby for right wing policies

I try small brick and mortar as much as possible but the up charges for the identical product can really hurt, like why is the same brand of pet food twice the cost if I drive 10 miles for it vs if I order it online

Is Walmart really any better than Amazon?

Anyone can order on sigma as long as you make an account! Which is really cool but a lot of the times their prices aren’t competitive with random products you could find on amazon since the average person rarely needs hplc grade products.

I used to do that exact same thing with 200mg of caffiene in a Nalgene with a drop or two of lemon juice haha

You can get it super easy in the U.S. for cheap

Here is lab grade caffeine

That if you wanted to make 150mg energy drinks it would cost less than 3 cents each.

If you want to just mainline caffeine I would recommend caffiene pills they are preportioned and are cheap here are the equivalent to 100g pre measured out for under $20

But my point still remains that the cost of caffeine is completely irrelevant to the cost of energy drinks

That’s because monster overcharges, caffiene powder is cheap and you could add it to soda for cheap