Price of coke in Asda

[noenergy]

Last week I bought 18 tins for £4.15.

Today I popped in and has to check prices again as they were £8 for 10 tins or £10 for 24 tins. I couldn't believe it. Sugar tax or whatever it was certainly stopped me from buying it.

I'm thinking the labels were wrong? I did read them to check quantity and price.

If you don’t want a glass of water then how about a cup of herbal tea, some squash?

I can quite easily drink 30 cans in a week! So no, providing I stay fit. I play 90mins of football every week, I play another sport four times a week and tennis in summer....it doesn't cause me any damage or hospital stays.

It's all down to the person.

Bloody Hell

It won't be long before it'll be cheaper to do a line of Coke for a 4pm pick me up.

Tesco were doing 24 cans of Pepsi Max for a fiver last week.

AJPTaylor It's not going to change my habits at all. I'll pay the higher price because that is what it costs but that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.

30 cans in a week?! That’s incredible!

I don’t know anyone who drinks coke without alcohol in. I really didn’t think that was a thing people did?!

I see the harmful effects fizzy drinks have on people’s health every day. This is a good thing - they should be a ‘treat’

Is it just me who's giggling at the irony that someone with the username noenergy has got through 18 cans of coke in a week. There's your energy problem!

Herbal tea tastes like crap. It is utterly vile. I've tried loads of them. Dd has a cupboard full. I haven't drunk squash since I was about 12.

I drink soft drinks maybe twice a month, so not often, but occasionally I just fancy something fizzy. Maybe it'll be cheaper to drink prosecco?

Why isn't there a tax on doughnuts? You can buy 5 for £1 and they have next to no nutritional value and are full of fat. I'm not saying a sugar tax is necessarily a bad thing. I just think it has been poorly thought through and implemented. If they are levying this sugar tax then surely the money gained from it should go to subsidise fresh fruit and veg?

Definitely. I drink it at work mostly, and don't drink hot drinks! But it hasn't caused me any damage and I balance it with exercise.

??? That's a bizarre thing to say NotUmbongoUnchained. Why do you think so many restaurants offer coke as a drink, and not just as a mixer? Who do you think is drinking it? It isn't just kids I assure you.

Well yeah out at a restaurant is a bit different as you probably not have 1 and it’s occasionally, but I have never been to someone’s home and been offered coke or seen coke there.

I must live in parallel universe because I know plenty of people who drink it. Not that I tend to go looking in their fridge, but it's far from uncommon. I have two bottles of Diet Coke in mine.

I support this tax increase, and I hope it's extended to other products that contain sugar as well. Coca cola as a product is believed to be a common cause of obesity and tooth decay.
People might be unhappy on an individual basis, but it's whether it is effective on a population level that is the question. We will have to wait and see.

Only 1, that should say. Sorry, I’m ill in bed and shakey.

Sugar is addictive - the more you have, the more of a sweet tooth you develop, and the more you want. Just look at America, where every damn thing you eat is crammed with sugar, because if it isn't, no one will buy it because they don't like it because it's not sweet...

When I first started Low-Carbing, it was incredible how quickly your taste for sweet/carby things gets super-charged - things like yoghurts or biscuits became too sweet.

We all could do with being weaned off too much sugar in the same way that cereals now have something like a tenth of the salt they used to - a bowl of cornflakes from the 50s would be way too salty now.

In 10 years hopefully people will look at a can of Coke and get that shuddery feeling I get when I think of sweet stuff!

Don’t think I have drunk 30 cans during my whole life . The only time I drink it is if I’m having a alcoholic drink in a pub and then I only have a small amount to water down spirits. Hate the stuff and would never give it to my kids (luckily they hate anything fizzy).

Not all of us drink alcohol either. I don't so I often have diet Coke, though I do drink other things. I can't be alone in that surely?

I've had two before, no often though as I can't drink a lot of carbonated drinks. I didn't think twice when I did though.

Sorry to hear that you're ill. Poor you. I hope you feel better soon.

30 tins in a week?
That is over 1kg of sugar a week

Funny thing is that for me it simply means I will make my own lemonade, with as much sugar in it as I like.

I’ll drink coke if it had a double captain Morgan’s in it

And thankyou!

We all could do with being weaned off too much sugar

No, no, some of us actually have a very good grip on what we eat, when we eat it and how much of it we eat without some nanny state needing to "wean us off it".

Yep we can easily drink 30 cans of Diet Coke a week.

The sugar tax adds on 8p to a can of coke so that does not explain the huge price rise. More likely as someone else suggested that the shops have inflated the price so they can reduce it in a few weeks so it looks like a really great offer.