Price of coke in Asda

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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.

Ah ok thanks chimp

Some people have claimed that they drink 30 cans of Coke in a single week? Thirty cans a WEEK!! Every week?! That's more than 4 cans every single day!

I find that quite hard to believe tbh. It's surely an exaggeration intended to shock and to invite comments. Well, it worked, as I felt compelled to comment!

The first time I've heard about this sugar tax, is it to fight obesity? Seems silly, what about choc bars, Starbucks, will plain sugar be taxed as well or what's the point? Always thought that sugar free pop is as bad for you as the one with sugar

This is like reading those bizarre alcohol threads where people only ever have half a sherry at Christmas and think if you drink a bottle of wine every weekend you must be an alcoholic.

It's just a sugary drink, jeez! I don't drink it that much but we often have it in for when people come round.

Mind you 30 cans in a week does sound pretty unusual.

recon it will come out in years to come that the stuff they put in diet drinks is more harmful than sugar

There are plenty of studies that say that already!

I just did a quick calculation re the 30 cans a week thing.

There are 35g of sugar in every can. If you drink 30 cans every week, then in the course of the year you will have consumed just over 8.5 stones (54.6 kg) of sugar, just through drinking Coke!!

I tend to find those who get sniffy over people drinking coke are the ones who drink alcohol like fish and post all over Facebook about it being Wine O'Clock as soon as the kids are in bed

Really? You 'tend to find' exactly this? You know a whole bunch of people who are all:

'Sniffy over people drinking coke' AND are so publicly sniffy it's very obvious, as you know about it.

'Drink alcohol like fish.' Again, you must know them and their drinking habits pretty well.

Post all over FB about Wine O'Clock. Well, these are all close 'friends' I guess.

Have kids.

Or are you just making up a judgy little narrative about people judging you?

If you don't like people judging you, I'd strongly suggest not judging them.

Asda online says its £7.50 for 30 cans today which is same as previously?

"Person A lives an unhealthy lifestyle which includes 30 cans of coke a week, fatty foods and alcohol and dies at 65 costing the country £xxxxx amount in NHS care.
Person B lives a very healthy life and lives to 95 costing the country £xxxxxxx amount in pensions and adult social care. "

It doesn't work like that.

What fizzy drinks does to the body, won't shorten your life. it will just impact on the quality of it. you can take up weight lifting and do other stuff to try to combat the effects on bone density etc, but you'd have to do it daily.

Having said that, I don't agree with the sugar tax on drinks. there are enough discount shops around that will still make it affordable.

Also, my mum who barely took in any sugar, like many who lived through rationing, shouldn't have to pay out more for their mixers. As shouldn't any Adult.

I drink diet drinks, the lack of choice in the pubs have meant that I've had to go for something with more sugar in. That should have been tackled firstly.

"Some people have claimed that they drink 30 cans of Coke in a single week? Thirty cans a WEEK!! Every week?! That's more than 4 cans every single day! "

My Adult DD and her DP and a lot of their peers drink a lot of Coke/Fanta/Lucozade etc. They seem to constantly get the Tango 'ice blasts' as well.

I used to fill up on diet coke in the 80's thinking I was fat. I know some girls use diet drinks in that way. The caffeine is only slightly less than diet pills.

It’s gone up in price across the board. Some companies have flouted the tax by reducing sugar content and adding shitty chemicals like lucozade and Barr drinks (irn bru, tizer, rubicon etc). They taste vile now. I think Coca Cola has done it with Dr Pepper and Fanta too tbh, neither taste the same lately.

I don’t drink much fizzy at all but when I do, I prefer full sugar as it’s a rarity for me and I loathe shitty chemicals. I don’t know if the cost will deter people from buying and in turn, lessen the obesity rates though... I suppose only time will tell.

Well, I’ve just had my coke. It’s made my teeth feel fuzzy

It's not flouting the tax pinkvoid, it's not something they can cheat at.

They changed their drinks in advance knowing it was coming in so they don't have to pay it. That's a perfectly acceptable choice for them to make, it remains to be seen whether consumers will like the new tastes, it may well backfire and sales will fall more than they would have done if they'd passed the tax on to consumers. The manufacturers and retailers can choose if and how they want to increase prices to recoup the extra tax on the manufacturer.

notumbungo all drinks with added sugar who have a sugar level above 5g/l are leviable unless they are 75% or higher milk.

San Pel and J2O have reformulated so are below the sugar level. Pretty much the only ones left will be reg Coke, reg Pepsi (not Pepsi max as this has no sugar), red bull, and some of the niche premium squash brands like Rocks.

Squashes are levied at their diluted rates. So if you buy 1L of leviable squash that dilutes 1:4, you'll be 4L x 24p per litre (and then you'll lay vat on the levy!) So it'd add £1.15 to the litre of squash (which was probably a couple of quid to begin with)

I’m so annoyed they’ve messed with Irn-Bru, being Scottish I know it’s the ultimate hangover cure and great when I’ve got a migraine to give me a sugar hit with my meds.

I think it’s sad that they’ve had to do this and ruin it for everyone else. Everyone should be able to have the choice on what they consume.

Yanbu, i love coke. It won’t stop me buying it. Just encourages me to buy more bigger bottles and refill them ( and piss me off).

I'm annoyed at the stealthy introduction of sweetners in response to the tax.
Bye bye Ribena
Bye bye Lucozade
Bye bye high juice
You can all join the lemonades and Robinsons squashes and all the other soapy revolting headache inducing beverages that I've ignored for years.

I've had to learn to tolerate the taste of Pepsi in recent years because it is usually the only drink avaliable other than water that I won't be regretting for hours afterwards in places that serve those brands. Water is fine. I drink a lot of it. Fruit teas too (hate tea/ coffee and can't dilute them with milk/soya anyway) but sometimes water doesn't hit the spot and I want a drink I can taste.

Sometimes I need something sugary to support me with exercise. When doing a two hour run, weak squash is easier on the body than plain water as it is a better concentration for the body to absorb. I'll now have to use diluted fresh juice or premium elderflower types.

I wouldn't mind a gradual reduction of sweetness in recipes and a gentle reduction of the British sweet tooth, but I'm not convinced that isolated tax increases and substituting to synthetic ingredients to maintaintain the illusion of sweetness is going to lead to a significant improvement in public health.

Asda online says its £7.50 for 30 cans today which is same as previously?

The Asda app is showing Coke Zero and Diet Coke at that price, but full fat Coca-Cola is £8.50 for 24 cans

I'm slightly impressed the government have undertaken a tax with the intention of improving public health but which must be unpopular with large multinational companies. I'm not convinced it will change consumer choice much but has clearly reduced sugar levels in many drinks. Also not sure it will impact on obesity rates. I think it's complex; busy lifestyles, processed food, sedentary jobs, mental anguish etc etc

The only time I've recently judged someone's choice of drink was when a friends partner said he no longer drank packeted ground coffee. He meant all cofee should be ground from beans moments before consumption. I have to admit I judged him as a food snob.

I also don't know many coke drinkers. I sort of realise people do drink it but my friends and family don't. We bought some for a party and threw it away a year later. Not a boast. My kryptonite is biscuits (preferably with lots of chocolate chips).

I went online after posting my original post and the online price was cheaper than what it said in store. I wasn't the only person that notices it in store, others were working out the price at 80p a can.
Didn't realise most of u say cans and not tin!!
I'm Norn Irish so that probably explains that.

I will continue to drink it, I don't drink tea or coffee and it's my source of caffeine but I don't normally drink more than1 or 2 cans a day. I don't have a sweet tooth in any other shape or form don't like chocolate or eat desserts.

Didn't know that most people on here don't drink it, most people I know drink it. Can't stand the taste of Diet Coke.

Personally I don't agree with the tax as it doesn't change people's fundamental attitudes or behaviour, plus there's starting to be significant evidence that sweeteners are no better and that's what people will switch to, not water/milk/juice.

In addition I'm DAMN sure the money raised won't be going to nhs, social care etc (possibly arlene' bribe though)

But fizzy drinks are harmful in many ways (speak to dentists, gastro consultants, endocrinologists)

To the pp - "but I exercise and am slim so it's not hurting me" have you heard of the slim outside fat outside phenomena? People who eat loads of fatty foods and sugar but do loads of exercise to burn it off? It still raises cholesterol, messes with insulin production and therefore they are just as at risk as obese people of stroke, diabetes, heart disease etc.

I think a gradual reduction of the amount of sugar used would have been more effective.

In addition with cola it's not just the sugar that's problematic, it's the caffeine and phosphoric acid too that's harmful - but there's no moves to address that.

Don't even get me started on energy drinks in U.K. That contain ingredients banned in most other countries

"recon it will come out in years to come that the stuff they put in diet drinks is more harmful than sugar" totally agree - we've seen this before with butter and trans fats, eggs and different types of cholesterol, I even remember my mum and her friends swearing off potatoes temporarily because they were declared "fattening" but they were still having glasgow fries 😂😂 I was doing my nurse training at the time of the butter fiasco. Several medical professionals I came in contact with thought it was a nonsense fad even then, that natural (in moderation) is always better and that includes a dietician.

Yes there's already lots of studies saying this but it's not yet generally accepted as fact.

And yes as a Scot I think irn bru have made a MASSIVE mistake in choosing to change the recipe.

I have a family member who used to only drink full sugar coke so got through 5+ cans a day he now has no teeth at the age of 45 and alot of other health problems. He has always been skinny and active.

I think it’s sad that they’ve had to do this and ruin it for everyone else.

Who are they? The government, or the 2/3rds of the populataion that are overweight or obese and couldn't make sensible choices?

What should the government do I find 2/3rds of the population are overweight or obese? Ignore it and continue to fund any NHsS treatment for them if weight related? Not treat them? Or try to find a way to reduce the problem?

i love coke - sugar tax what a load of crap - how about taxing cakes biscuits pizzas crisps then i should have stock piled the coke