To think the sugar tax is an excuse to rip

[Fantasticday09]

Off consumers
In local supermarket today to buy Pepsi and diet Pepsi.
Diet Pepsi £1.30
Pepsi £2.00
Sugar tax is 48p
In restaurants with free refills regular coke no longer available. Fair enough. But charging same price for 330 miles is a rip off compared to unlimited refills.
Aibu

Mils not miles

Yabu
The whole point of it is to make you consume less sugar..... by raising prices....
And encouraging business to use less sugar.

It’s capitalism at its best - business is there to make as much money from you as humanely possible. As their costs rise, they pass them on so as to protect their profit.

Well considering that those same consumers are provably either a burden or a future burden to the NHS I say it is fair game. If you are happy to have a government that provides healthcare then it is only reasonable to redirect that government to try to dice you into maintaining a healthy diet.

@believeitornot is social engineering by taxation, its really not capitalism beyond the fact that it is operating within a capitalist system. The government is causing the price rise not the market. It would be capitalism if the actual sugar cost more due to market forces.

I find it a bit odd that say in Tesco if you wanted coke with a meal deal you had to get a 330ml bottle instead of 500 ml for Diet Coke, but you could get a 500ml Dr Pepper (non diet version ). Or is there significantly less sugar in Dr Pepper?

I don't necessarily disagree with the sugar tax, although not entirely sure of the long term effects of artificial sweeteners. BUT DP is allergic to diet/zero versions of drinks so has to have full sugar ones.
Of course he could give up fizzy all together but doesn't want to.

The additional 48p is fine. It's the extra 22p rounding that I resent. Ironically I am overweight and drink diet drinks. Dh is slender and drinks regular. Go figure.

I was confused that I could still buy a litre of full sugar coke for £1.

@Racecardriver

The response of business is capitalist. That’s what I meant.

@beliveitornly duh, I'm an idiot. I re read your post and realised that I had completely confused myself by reading it to to bottom (need to stop doing that!)

*bottom to top

Ha ok no worries

Dr. Pepper now has sweeteners in it so maybe that's why it's cheaper? It tastes horrible now, like my beloved Ribena

I find it weird that you can get a small 500ml bottle of full sugar Coke in the local Co op for £1.48 but a big one (1.75lt?) is £1.50 or 2 for £2.50

Not that I'm complaining, Coke is about the only soft drink I can have now!