Not to mention Lipton Ice Tea is garbage. You can make your own for 1/10th of the price.
This is way too expensive for a drink.
Submitted 4 months ago by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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simple@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Aux@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What are you making your tea out of if it costs €0.50? Gold or something?
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My favorite part about purchasing iced tea in the store is that you will have 2 bottles sitting right next to each other. One will contain a product that costs far more and both will cost the same price. The main cost of sweet tea is sugar. No sugar in unsweet tea, just water and tea leaves…
PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Preach.
OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Mix in some peach herbal tea bags for another 15 cents?
TwinTusks@bitforged.space 4 months ago
Arizona Ice Tea ftw!
HollandJim@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Note the € sign - it’ll be nearly as expensive and you’ll only find 2-3 flavors if you’re lucky (US expat in NL)
Op: Brew your own tea and make your own. Or reduce it by half and add it as a concentrate to fizzy water if you need the bubbles. Also, equal parts sugar and water, low heat in a saucepan until reduced by ⅓-½ and you’ve got sugar syrup. That lasts in the fridge forever, and you can make it as sweet or not as you’d like.
fidodo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you’re using Lipton tea bags then it’s more like 1/100th
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Your not paying for the contents anymore. It’s shipping, packaging, advertising and CEO’s expenses your paying for.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 4 months ago
CEOs yachts yacht isn’t going to pay for itself!
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 months ago
It gets lonely 🥺
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It could though if you hooked it up to an AI and taught it to fish
CodeName@infosec.pub 4 months ago
I’ve cut so many products out of my life in the past few years. They used Covid as an excuse to price gauge and they just never stopped. They’ll keep creeping the price up until sales start to decline then they’ll settle there… for awhile.
KijinSeija@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Greedflation!
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Because as we all know, the thing that changed during the pandemic was that where before greed wasn’t a thing, it is now!
We know greed caused this inflation, because of the correlation between greed varying and the inflation varying.
During the year 2020, greed emerged into humanity, and gave us inflation. It makes perfect sense
/s
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 months ago
They never needed an excuse. All they needed was the lack of competition that we gave them when we forcibly shut down their competitors.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just so you know - Carrefour is one of the biggest retailers in Europe, they’re French, and have said a giant “Va te faire foutre” to PepsiCo this week -
Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fair play to them, that’s great stuff.
wh0se@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wow, didn’t know that. Bonne nouvelle !
GiddyGap@lemm.ee 4 months ago
For anyone who didn’t know, Lipton’s readymade beverages, like the one in the picture, are owned and sold by PepsiCo.
klemptor@startrek.website 4 months ago
Merci pour le partage!
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Water is the best
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TheUncannyObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Good news! This drink is mostly water by volume!
maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
💦 💦
Mereo@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Good! That means less people drinking sugar!
Sirico@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Gom Syrup 50/50 mix sugar or honey & boiling water Black tea 2 grams per 8oz water at 70c increase tea a little more if adding ice right away Fruit juice or purée to taste or go Eurobeat and not bother
Put in a reusable container, stop supporting nonsense things you can do yourself
Portosian@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Do the French dislike honey?
Sirico@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I refered to it as gom syrup
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Least incomprehensible recipe
Venat0r@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ve seen cheaper drinks at ski field cafes…
JustMy2c@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Inner city monopoly
kpw@kbin.social 4 months ago
Maybe it's in an airport within a ski field?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Psst hey kids, you wanna get high?
klemptor@startrek.website 4 months ago
“Ice” tea drives me nuts - it’s iced!
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 4 months ago
No, no. This is literally steeped ice cubes.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s not though is it? Can you really consider this product tea? And it definitely does not contain any ice. Therefore the product is named ice tea. If you make tea at home and put ice inside? Voila you got yourself some iced tea.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 months ago
1.25L for €4.95? Wow… $5.41 US. 42.268 fluid ounces, so $0.128 per ounce? Yeesh!
Here you can get a 12 pack of 16 ounce bottles for just under $7. $0.033 per ounce.
out@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
A shortcut for next time is reading the liter price under the normal price and converting that instead.
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
They went straight to ounces. I don’t think it would have mattered for them.
SVcross@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Please tell me that was at the airport
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 4 months ago
That was my thought. I spent the last 48 hours in various airports, and this briefly looked normal to me.
FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Was this picture taken in Ireland OP?
out@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
That’s quite likely since the Euro sign is only placed before the amount in English, Dutch, Irish and Maltese. The UK obviously goes out since they use £
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
the Euro sign is only placed before the amount in English, Dutch, Irish and Maltese
While true, on pricing labels it’s put in front of the numbers in other countries as well. My unresearched guess is to avoid tampering with a pen when a currency sign is blocking the space to put additional numbers in front.
gzrrt@kbin.social 4 months ago
Also insanely unhealthy to consume stuff like this on a day-to-day basis
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If it was in a glass bottle maybe I would buy it. Plastic pagaking should be more expensive IMO
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
The bottle doesn’t change the ingredients
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months ago
Is it me, or are those only about half full?
jj4211@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Looks more half empty to me
Dublin112@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The labels are like a shrink wrap, it makes it look lighter or empty starting at the bottom of the wrap in this picture.
1984@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Will they ever stop doing their stupid 4.95 or 4.99 as if people don’t understand it’s like 5 dollars…
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 months ago
It’s scientifically proven that it’s works. So, never.
adrian783@lemmy.world 4 months ago
no, it works. so they’ll do it forever.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
People will fall for this. Everyone reads its like 4 and even if you know it you can be mislead
ChucklesMacLeroy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
On a trip in Nola and took the kids for a treat at the Cheesecake Factory. 3 sodas and an iced tea was $21. Won’t be back for that reason alone. We are being fleeced.
kpw@kbin.social 4 months ago
Let them go bankrupt
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 4 months ago
The price is insane, is this store on top of a volcano and goods need to be transported via helicopter?
realitista@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Make your own. Only takes a minute and once you find the right formula, will taste much better than this garbage.
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Is that a hospital vending machine? I spent £15 once and got 2 packs of crisps, chocolate bar and drink.
TheUncannyObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Eww. The only thing worse than bottled Lipton is Brisk.
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Looks like the price says 1.25L. Even in the YS, that’s more than one drink
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Don’t go into a Starbucks.
For many reasons, but you certainly won’t like the pricing there either.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
New strategy to refrain consumers from buying soft drinks? Perhaps high taxation behind it, like special purpose taxes?
I remember this happened in my country; to cull high sugar and sweetners content, the industry threw a fit, the authorities didn’t care, life moved forward and sugar content in soft drinks dropped (but not the prices).
Lipton was always much more expensive than other brands, as well.
lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
That’s painfully expensive for just 500ml, ouch!
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
I buy no-name cola - store brands and such. It’s pennies per gallon and I honestly can’t tell the difference between them and Coke / Pepsi. If there is a difference, at the second gulp, I’m already used to the new thing enough to have forgotten. I don’t think I’ve bought the real thing in 25 years.
90% of the price is the brand name.
n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
That isnt a drink, its flavoured sugar water with some nasty chemicals hidden in there
ConstantPain@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s like a dollar here in Brazil.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Alternatively, you can walk to the coca cola shelf, pick up a 250 ml glass bottle and pay about 6.3 €/l. You know, there are really expensive specialty coffee beans that produce a drinkable liquid that costs less than that.
reddig33@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So don’t buy it. If you buy it, you’re telling the store you’re willing to pay that price. Go somewhere else or buy something else.
fidodo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Or make your own iced tea for even cheaper than the cheapest bottled one and save the plastic waste.