That’s actually super interesting. When I was typing out my first post, my main thought was “man it’d actually be pretty silly to ship around cases of empty bottles”. But having blanks ready to be blown into more custom molds owned by the different manufacturers would certainly be a way around it.

This is without me looking it up because I don’t really care enough to. But more than likely, the bottled water companies do not make their own bottles. They probably buy from manufacturers of bottles, then do the hard part of filling them up.

I don’t get it. The heck is that supposed to be