Why have soft drinks gone up in price? 29 March 2017 at 11:24PM in Food shopping & groceries 31 replies 13.9K views

jenniewb

JackieO wrote: »

I love Aldi's lime soda and its only 37p a bottle ,delicious with a few ice cubes and very refreshing I am not a lover of cola at all as if it can get verdigris off coins what is it doing to your teeth or insides :):)

Try spilling a little of any full sugar carbonated drink onto a laminate floor or enamel covered table top (tried this at school) and come back in a days time. It is scary! Though no one leaves their teeth sitting in this an entire day, if you consider a little at a time and then consider how it's flushed over teeth again and again... Worrying!

Arif4275412

The cost of soft drinks ingredients are increasing day by day. It is one the great reason.

dlusman

Next week ( 27th -> 3rd ) @ Lidl

4 * 2L Irn Bru £3.79

RHemmings

davidgmmafan wrote: »

Yeah but I've never gotten away with the cheaper varieties. My mum swore by them but I can't stand them and I've tried a few...

I find that the co-op ones seem to taste quite nice. Have you tried them?

MiserlyMartin

Just wondering did the sugar tax ever effect the soft frinks market?

DCFC79

MiserlyMartin wrote: »

Just wondering did the sugar tax ever effect the soft frinks market?

The soft frinks market ?

The sugar tax is next year isnt it ?

dlusman

DCFC79 wrote: »

The soft frinks market ?

The sugar tax is next year isnt it ?

Soft Drink /Sugar tax due in April 2018
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38212608

According to this site -
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FRINKS&defid=599018
frink has several meanings - among which
1) A mythical ancient Greece creature, with the head of a goose and the legs of a chicken
2) A girl who has sex after consuming a large amount of alcohol.
3) To Consume A Liquid Substance
4)A person who has sexual relations with flowers and lemurs

so maybe the post is refering to the 3rd version ( or maybe the 4th ), and there doesnt appear to be any differentiation between a soft and hard frink

PasturesNew

I am a Max addict, but it also HAS to be in cans.... and it got tiresome continually trying to chase only the cheapest/deals - and finding myself either without any, or with an overload (as I stocked up) that then disappeared "just because I had them".

Somebody said try the 4ldi version, in bottles. Tried that, didn't get on with it.

Then I had to buy some drinks with zero notice and grabbed L1dl's cloudy lemonade and a bottle of fiery ginger beer. Lemonade was "so so", but I like the GB and am now having that. 45p/2 litres; 23p/litre. P/Max in tins was typically about 66p/litre.

PasturesNew

What I don't understand about the "sugar tax" is why not simply tax sugar.... why drinks? So it's OK to eat sweets and load up on cakes, but you have to pay the sugar tax on "no sugar" drinks because the manufacturers will simply spread the cost across all their products.

Madness.

Somebody didn't have their brain fully charged when they suggested this, came up with it, evolved it and made it law.

Or RATION it. Bring back rationing books for everything that's "not good for us"

antrobus

PasturesNew wrote: »

What I don't understand about the "sugar tax" is why not simply tax sugar.... why drinks? ...

Because the sugary drinks have no nutritional benefit.

PasturesNew wrote: »

...So it's OK to eat sweets and load up on cakes, but you have to pay the sugar tax on "no sugar" drinks because the manufacturers will simply spread the cost across all their products. ....

I think you'll find that they'll add the cost of of the tax to the product to which it applies. In the same way as they add VAT to food products where that applies.

Which is apart from the fact that manufacturing a soft drink and sticking it in a can or bottle, is quite different from baking a cake. You normally have a facility on some industrial estate that does one or the other. But not both.:)