Coca Cola 2Ltr RIP

Annasopra

Del2005 wrote: »

People will only pay a certain price for products, so instead of increasing the price manufacturers decrease the amount that is sold. KitKat removed a finger and Yorkie a block, it goes on all the time.

When did kit kat remove a finger?

krattapopov

All of the mars confectionary pouch sizes have gone down (you know the ones always on offer at 2 euro). Maltesers/Counters, the grammage has decreased. Scandalous!

Snake Plisken

Yeah It's scandalous all right, manuafacturers think we won't notice! I refuse to buy the Diet Coke 1.75l litre bottles and have switched to Diet Pepsi 2 litre bottles, although I suppose it's only a matter of time before they switch to the stupid 1.75 litre bottles.

lawlolawl

I see quantities/portions of garbage food and drink being reduced as a positive thing

Seve OB

lawlolawl wrote: »

I see quantities/portions of garbage food and drink being reduced as a positive thing

maybe. but when the robbing baxtards won't drop their prices accordingly it's a disgrace

lawlolawl

Seve OB wrote: »

maybe. but when the robbing baxtards won't drop their prices accordingly it's a disgrace

Meh, building in their own sugar-tax for the slovenly addicts.

More power to the manufacturers.

TeaBagMania

We had a beer company here pulling that crap, they reduced the quantity to 11oz. per can so we we re getting ripped off for an entire beer in a 12 pack

fryup

they'll be downsizing durex next :mad:

o1s1n

lawlolawl wrote: »

Meh, building in their own sugar-tax for the slovenly addicts.

More power to the manufacturers.

Can you repeat that? It's kind of difficult to hear you from your ivory tower.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I remember a fat friend telling me one time that he'd cut out most of the junk food from his diet but still wasn't shifting weight. The guy was completely oblivious to the impact his gallon a day coca cola habit was having.

jester77

jester77 wrote: »

There are much much nicer Cola's out there, don't fall for the marketing.

mansize wrote: »

Such as???

jester77 wrote: »

Fritz Cola and Afri Cola are both nicer, not as sweet and the carbonation is way better than what Coca Cola do.

Craft colas are as nearly as popular as craft beers now, so there is no shortage of different varieties to try out.

You are literally the worst person ever. A fu*cking cola hipster. I've seen it all now.

Agricola

Oops69 wrote: »

Coca cola can't be mentioned on -line or verbally without being followed by smart ass middle -class comments about sugar water , teeth rotting , childhood and adult obesity , etc. etc.
I LIKE IT AS A TREAT ! like a lot of people and am not over weight so go off and pontificate over the healy - reas or some other middle class obsession or maybe GET A LIFE !

Fair comment. A generation ago a bottle of coke was a treat lots of Irish kids would have highly prized, their parent's before them would have been lucky to get a drop of water without bubonic plague in it.

Nowadays it's all "Oh Fiachra and Uactar Reoite only have distilled angel tears once a month. They're on a strict macrobiotic diet but you have to let them be kids once in a while, right?"

Sciprio

The 5 pack of Koka noodles is now a 4 pack. I never ate them that much apart from a snack but haven't bought them since i found out.

mdol

Ressurecting this thread as I've just discovered Iceland are selling 2.25ltr bottles. €3 a pop.

Pricey but better value than the rip-off prices the 1.5ltr are (saw one in a service station for €3.10 recently, the swindling bastards!)

cena

mdol wrote: »

Ressurecting this thread as I've just discovered Iceland are selling 2.25ltr bottles. €3 a pop.

Pricey but better value than the rip-off prices the 1.5ltr are (saw one in a service station for €3.10 recently, the swindling bastards!)

Iceland roscommon have 3l of 3 euros

SureYWouldntYa

mdol wrote: »

Ressurecting this thread as I've just discovered Iceland are selling 2.25ltr bottles. €3 a pop.

Pricey but better value than the rip-off prices the 1.5ltr are (saw one in a service station for €3.10 recently, the swindling bastards!)

You can get 3 of the 1.5L bottles for €4.50 which is much better value than what’s on offer in Iceland

mdol

Didn't know that. Was never really a fan of them 3ltr bottles though, they go flat long before the bottle is empty and I ended up chucking a litre or so.

Why does Coca Cola not advertise the larger bottles?

freshpopcorn

Both Lidl and Aldi have the 1.5l bottles 3 for €4.50 at the moment.

Supervalu has a €1.5l bottle for €1.19!

murpho999

Pubs and restaurants are worse.

They now sell tiny 200 ml bottles for the same price as the older style larger bottles.

Complete rip off. Only seen them in Ireland as well.

Snake Plisken

I noticed that once the sugar tax was introduced Coca Cola Two litre bottles were. Re-introduced to the market. I'm not sure if it was because the 1.75Ltr bottles sold badly or because they wanted to push Coke Zero and Diet Coke as better value then the sugar taxed Coca Cola.
I think Iceland bring a lot of their stock from the UK and that is why you will see 3 litre bottles stocked in there.
I also seem to remember Tesco's were selling 3 litre bottles of Diet Coke and Coke Zero over the Christmas period last year.

mtoutlemonde

I can only buy 1.5L bottles - two 2L used to do the week - I'm not a big drinker just for dinner etc. Now have to buy double on Friday and another double Wednesday - bottles don't last. So if there are more people like me - then the sugar tax and the reduction in bottle size has increased sales???? I wish I could make my own decisions

Mackmatic

I really don't like bottles of coke. Any size. I can never finish a small bottle and wouldn't be arsed with a big one. The big bottles taste like shyte after you've opened it. If its even slightly flat I'm not interested.

An ice cold can of coke though? No drink compares.

It's like pure acid on your teeth and it's pure muck for your insides, but fuch me does it taste glorious and refreshing when it's ice cold and in a tin.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Snake Plisken wrote: »

I noticed that once the sugar tax was introduced Coca Cola Two litre bottles were. Re-introduced to the market. I'm not sure if it was because the 1.75Ltr bottles sold badly or because they wanted to push Coke Zero and Diet Coke as better value then the sugar taxed Coca Cola.
I think Iceland bring a lot of their stock from the UK and that is why you will see 3 litre bottles stocked in there.
I also seem to remember Tesco's were selling 3 litre bottles of Diet Coke and Coke Zero over the Christmas period last year.

Most small shops I see are putting the sugar tax on non sugar drinks. Not sure about larger shops.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Mackmatic wrote: »

I really don't like bottles of coke. Any size. I can never finish a small bottle and wouldn't be arsed with a big one. The big bottles taste like shyte after you've opened it. If its even slightly flat I'm not interested.

An ice cold can of coke though? No drink compares.

It's like pure acid on your teeth and it's pure muck for your insides, but fuch me does it taste glorious and refreshing when it's ice cold and in a tin.

Yeh. I don’t drink the stuff anymore but cold cans were amazing.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Subway, which I don't eat very often, have gotten rid of all the normal sugar drinks they have on tap, not it's only Pepsi Max, Fanta Zero and all that crap.

Normal Coke or Pepsi is way safer than all that fake sugar crap that tastes like chemicals.

2 litres of Coca Cola Zero, €1:19 today in a bargain chain called So-Lo

padd b1975

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Yeh. I don’t drink the stuff anymore but cold cans were amazing.

It's even better from a glass bottle.