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  • 03-01-2020 2:30pm
    #1
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭


    How do they justify those price increases across the range they offer. The wholesale prices of Coca Cola/zero/Fanta haven’t increased nor has the price of Tayto Crisp. I don’t consume carbohydrates and I only drink water so these price increases aren’t something that would affect me.

    Minerals have increased by 30c from €1.80
    Coca Cola €2.10
    Coke Zero €2.10 (despite no sugar tax applicable)
    Fanta €2.10
    Sprite €2.10 (again no sugar tax applicable)

    Tayto Crisps have increased by 15c to €1.50

    A modern day Dick Turpin.


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  • #2
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    How do they justify those price increases across the range they offer. The wholesale prices of Coca Cola/zero/Fanta haven’t increased nor has the price of Tayto Crisp. I don’t consume carbohydrates and I only drink water so these price increases aren’t something that would affect me.

    Minerals have increased by 30c from €1.80
    Coca Cola €2.10
    Coke Zero €2.10 (despite no sugar tax applicable)
    Fanta €2.10
    Sprite €2.10 (again no sugar tax applicable)

    Tayto Crisps have increased by 15c to €1.50

    A modern day Dick Turpin.

    Gourmet is the Irish for expensive, can use artisan or craft as well


  • #3
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Gourmet is the Irish for expensive, can use artisan or craft as well
    usual trick there is smearing nutella on a bog standard donut and sprinkling crushed up oreos and charging a fiver. Or making an odd shape burger and dusting flour on the bun.

    But what about these cokes? rolling them in muck and calling them organic?;)

    There could well be some complaint mechaism about sugar tax though, I thought the minister made some threat about it, possibly an empty threat but it is not like this is some random one off chipper or something. It would be quite bad press is a rail service was not pricing stuff as the government intended, i.e. to deter people from drinking sugary drinks. Even if they can say its a third party company it is not good.


  • #4
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,600 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Captive audience and I suspect they likely don't actually make much money - you need to sell quite a few cups of tea and soggy sangers to make up the 11 quid an hour or whatever they pay the staff member.

    Massively dropping the prices wouldn't shift a huge amount more so they only have one end of the price to return spectrum to go for.


  • #5
    silver2020
    Registered Users Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭silver2020


    Hope the OP never has to travel on Ryanair :D:D:D


  • #6
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    silver2020 wrote: »
    Hope the OP never has to travel on Ryanair :D:D:D

    I see they also have no price difference for sugar/nonsugar drinks.

    Pepsi / Pepsi Max
    250ml (€1.00/100ml)
    €2.50

    https://www.ryanair.com/content/dam/ryanair/inflight/Ryanair_Spring_Inflight.pdf


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  • #7
    jester77
    Registered Users Posts: 11,262 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    How do they justify those price increases across the range they offer. The wholesale prices of Coca Cola/zero/Fanta haven’t increased nor has the price of Tayto Crisp. I don’t consume carbohydrates and I only drink water so these price increases aren’t something that would affect me.

    Minerals have increased by 30c from €1.80
    Coca Cola €2.10
    Coke Zero €2.10 (despite no sugar tax applicable)
    Fanta €2.10
    Sprite €2.10 (again no sugar tax applicable)

    Tayto Crisps have increased by 15c to €1.50

    A modern day Dick Turpin.

    That's f*ckin mad. I haven't lived in Ireland for years, do they still have the price of the Tayto on the packet? I remember when they were under 10p.


  • #8
    theguzman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭theguzman


    Alot of Rail passengers are either on the free travel so don't mind or are else expensing everything so again don't mind. I have found there is a EuroWorld at Abbey Street Luas stop and I usually load up with a bottle of water, crisps etc. there before taking the Luas out to Heuston. The prices on the train are just a small part of the general rip-off one faces on a trip to Dublin anyway.


  • #9
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,891 ✭✭✭thesandeman


    jester77 wrote: »
    That's f*ckin mad. I haven't lived in Ireland for years, do they still have the price of the Tayto on the packet? I remember when they were under 10p.

    I remember when they were 1½d.


  • #10
    Mountjoy Mugger
    Registered Users Posts: 4,486 ✭✭✭Mountjoy Mugger


    thesandeman wrote: »
    I remember when they were 1½d.

    Wasn't that Perri?


  • #11
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,891 ✭✭✭thesandeman


    Before Perri I think. All you could get were Tayto or Smith's.


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  • #12
    silver2020
    Registered Users Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭silver2020


    thesandeman wrote: »
    Before Perri I think. All you could get were Tayto or Smith's.

    or Sam Spudz :)


  • #13
    cbreeze
    Registered Users Posts: 862 ✭✭✭cbreeze


    Wasn't that the Tayto with the little twist of salt in the bag so you could salt your own crisps?


  • #14
    fatbhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 936 ✭✭✭fatbhoy


    jester77 wrote: »
    That's f*ckin mad. I haven't lived in Ireland for years, do they still have the price of the Tayto on the packet? I remember when they were under 10p.

    And you'd throw the empty packet into the fire and watch it shrink to about 2"x2", then burn up. Weirdly hypnotic. :pac:


  • #15
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,600 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    cbreeze wrote: »
    Wasn't that the Tayto with the little twist of salt in the bag so you could salt your own crisps?

    Smiths did that.

    Tayto invented the procedure for directly flavouring crisps (and made dosh licencing it to others) so never needed to do that. Its also why the term "ready salted" even exists.


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