Robyn Shaber left the ShopRite in Cardiff in Harford County last week with her grandson and at least 24 plastic bottles of Coca-Cola and Mountain Dew.
“This is probably a couple days’ worth,” said Shaber, whose husband drinks a lot of soda.
Even with a sale — two packs for $12 and two more for $10 — soda prices keep going up, she’s found. If Maryland starts taxing sugary beverage distributors as has been proposed in Annapolis, Shaber plans to stop buying soda at the ShopRite, just feet from the Mason-Dixon line, and buy it instead in Pennsylvania, where she lives…