This is way too expensive for a drink.

So don’t buy it. If you buy it, you’re telling the store you’re willing to pay that price. Go somewhere else or buy something else. Don’t encourage them.

Or make your own iced tea for even cheaper than the cheapest bottled one and save the plastic waste.

Not to mention Lipton Ice Tea is rubbish. You can make your own for 1/10th of the price, and it'll taste 10x better.

What are you making your tea out of if it costs €0.50? Gold or something?
- My favorite part about purchasing iced tea in the store is that you will have 2 bottles sitting right next to each other. One will contain a product that costs far more and both will cost the same price. The main cost of sweet tea is sugar. No sugar in unsweet tea, just water and tea leaves...
Preach.
- It’s spelled “peach”. But I know what you mean, I really like aspberry tea.
- Mix in some peach herbal tea bags for another 15 cents?
Arizona Ice Tea ftw!
- Note the € sign - it’ll be nearly as expensive and you’ll only find 2-3 flavors if you’re lucky (US expat in NL)
  Op: Brew your own tea and make your own. Or reduce it by half and add it as a concentrate to fizzy water if you need the bubbles. Also, equal parts sugar and water, low heat in a saucepan until reduced by ⅓-½ and you’ve got sugar syrup. That lasts in the fridge forever, and you can make it as sweet or not as you’d like.
If you're using Lipton tea bags then it's more like 1/100th

Your not paying for the contents anymore. It's shipping, packaging, advertising and CEO's expenses your paying for.

CEOs yachts yacht isn't going to pay for itself!
- It gets lonely because he never has time for it 🥺
  (Not because he's busy, it's just actually kind of a boring thing)
- It could though if you hooked it up to an AI and taught it to fish
No. You're paying for the rent if the probable airport kiosk this photo was taken in.

Greedflation!
- Because as we all know, the thing that changed during the pandemic was that where before greed wasn’t a thing, it is now!
  We know greed caused this inflation, because of the correlation between greed varying and the inflation varying.
  During the year 2020, greed emerged into humanity, and gave us inflation. It makes perfect sense
  /s
They never needed an excuse. All they needed was the lack of competition that we gave them when we forcibly shut down their competitors.

Just so you know - Carrefour is one of the biggest retailers in Europe, they're French, and have said a giant "Va te faire foutre" to PepsiCo this week -

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/04/carrefour-pulls-pepsico-products-four-eu-countries-price-hikes

Fair play to them, that's great stuff.
Wow, didn't know that. Bonne nouvelle !
For anyone who didn't know, Lipton's readymade beverages, like the one in the picture, are owned and sold by PepsiCo.
Merci pour le partage!

Water is the best

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Good news! This drink is mostly water by volume!
💦 💦

Good! That means less people drinking sugar!

I've seen cheaper drinks at ski field cafes... It makes sense for them to be pricey there, since they have to bring it up a mountain, but what's this places excuse...?

Inner city monopoly
Maybe it's in an airport within a ski field?
- Psst hey kids, you wanna get high?

Gom Syrup 50/50 mix sugar (caster is easiest) or honey (don't hate me France) & boiling water Black tea 2 grams per 8oz water at 70c increase tea a little more if adding ice right away Fruit juice or purée to taste or go Eurobeat and not bother

Put in a reusable container, stop supporting nonsense things you can do yourself

Do the French dislike honey?
- I refered to it as gom syrup
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Least incomprehensible recipe

Was this picture taken in Ireland OP?

- the Euro sign is only placed before the amount in English, Dutch, Irish and Maltese
  While true, on pricing labels it's put in front of the numbers in other countries as well. My unresearched guess is to avoid tampering with a pen when a currency sign is blocking the space to put additional numbers in front.

Also insanely unhealthy to consume stuff like this on a day-to-day basis

But it says "low in calories"! 🙄
- Of course it is. You’re not going to consume all 15 servings in that bottle at once I hope!
If it was in a glass bottle maybe I would buy it. Plastic pagaking should be more expensive IMO
- The bottle doesn't change the ingredients

Please tell me that was at the airport

That was my thought. I spent the last 48 hours in various airports, and this briefly looked normal to me.

Let them go bankrupt

Is it me, or are those only about half full? I can't tell if the label is transparent or opaque. 😳

Looks more half empty to me
The labels are like a shrink wrap, it makes it look lighter or empty starting at the bottom of the wrap in this picture.

On a trip in Nola and took the kids for a treat at the Cheesecake Factory. 3 sodas and an iced tea was $21. Won't be back for that reason alone. We are being fleeced.

"Ice" tea drives me nuts - it's iced!

No, no. This is literally steeped ice cubes.
It's not though is it? Can you really consider this product tea? And it definitely does not contain any ice. Therefore the product is named ice tea. If you make tea at home and put ice inside? Voila you got yourself some iced tea.
- Honestly I'm surprised the EU even lets this be called tea. It really should be "tea flavoured beverage" at best in the same way they won't let "American cheese" (the Kraft singles stuff) be called cheese, no?

The price is insane, is this store on top of a volcano and goods need to be transported via helicopter?

Nah, it's all for the Rich People Yatch Money.
- It’s like everybody has forgotten about market pricing.

Is that a hospital vending machine? I spent £15 once and got 2 packs of crisps, chocolate bar and drink.

Will they ever stop doing their stupid 4.95 or 4.99 as if people don't understand it's like 5 euro ...

It's scientifically proven that it's works. So, never.
no, it works. so they'll do it forever.
People will fall for this. Everyone reads its like 4 and even if you know it you can be mislead

Looks like the price says 1.25L. Even in the US, that’s more than one drink

2L soda used to be .99. Just don't buy it. These fuckers need to suffer or go out of business.
Yes, but at roughly $5 USD per liter, it's still a rip off.
Good catch.
"Litre tea. Do we make litre tea?"

Make your own. Only takes a minute and once you find the right formula, will taste much better than this garbage.

And you know what? It's kinda a good thing that this disposable stuff is more expensive. A tiny tea bag is way more sustainable and makes better iced tea for a fraction of the cost with no plastic.

Eww. The only thing worse than bottled Lipton is Brisk.

I don't understand this comment. Brisk is Lipton.

I can steep tea at home for pennies what the Southern fried fuck

Southern fried fuck.... sounds delicious.
- Idk about that, fucking your cousin while breaded and dipped in hot oil does not sound like a good time to me.

That's painfully expensive for just 500ml, ouch!

Edit: just noticed that looks like just over 1L, still really expensive though...

2-2.50€ would be reasonable. This aint it.

New strategy to refrain consumers from buying soft drinks? Perhaps high taxation behind it, like special purpose taxes?

I remember this happened in my country; to cull high sugar and sweetners content, the industry threw a fit, the authorities didn't care, life moved forward and sugar content in soft drinks dropped (but not the prices).

Lipton was always much more expensive than other brands, as well.

I smoke weed like a chimney and occasionally binge on sugary stuff.
It’s the sugar that fucks me up. I kick ass at work when I haven’t eaten any sugar. Then I go get a bunch of donuts, and I’m fucked for a few days.
- I'm not going to call sugar poison but too much can do a number on you.

That isnt a drink, its flavoured sugar water with some nasty chemicals hidden in there

I paid 8 Euros for 1L of Coke in Germany 15 years ago. To be fair that was at Oktoberfest... I think the beer was the same price.

I agree though, too expensive for day to day consumption.

I agree though, too expensive for day to day consumption.
Good. This liquid sugar shouldn't be part of anyone's day to day consumption. Occasional treat? Sure! But no more than that.
- Tbf I thought these Lipton teas were sugar free these days? I can't find them with sugar in my country.
- I don’t understand people who don’t binge.

At that point just make it yourself

I pity the fool buy that pricey ass tea

Yep, I agree. I stopped buying fancy coffee drinks for the same reason

What's a fancy coffee drink?
- Anything with an Italian name

I buy no-name colas - store brands and such. It's pennies per gallon and I honestly can't tell the difference between them and Coke / Pepsi. If there is a difference, at the second gulp, I'm already used to the new thing enough to have forgotten. I don't think I've bought the real thing in 25 years.

90% of the price is the brand name.

Also generic sodas have better flavors. There’s pineapple soda at King Soopers. Amazing mixer for drinks

Alternatively, you can walk to the coca cola shelf, pick up a 250 ml glass bottle and pay about 6.3 €/l. You know, there are really expensive specialty coffee beans that produce a drinkable liquid that costs less than that.

checked the math, fresh small roaster beans cost about 60€/kg these days, with 1 1.25dl cup taking about 7g of beans the cost of that coffee would be about 3.5€/l
- Yep. That’s about the usual price range I was thinking of. However, you can easily go over that with Jamaica Blue mountain (190 €/kg) and a high dose (70 g/l). The price of that liquid would be about 15 €/l, which is incidentally in the wine territory.

It's like a dollar here in Brazil.

Don't go into a Starbucks.

For many reasons, but you certainly won't like the pricing there either.

Starbucks isn't great espresso, but there's a reason espresso drinks cost what they do. There's a lot more labor, a genuinely obscenely expensive machine, or both involved in making it in a shop like that.
I'm perfectly fine with a cheap machine at home, but it just doesn't work in a coffee shop.
- Moka pot all the way!
This wasn't Starbucks. This was in a Centra
- They knew it wasn't a Starbucks. The comment was meant more as "if you think that's bad, don't go into Starbucks" At least that's how I read it.

These became too expensive in my country too. Only buy it occasionally now once in 3 months. Prob they're doing a favor to my health :)

Yes

Water is still pretty cheap.

For now.

It’s 2.90 in Tesco or SuperValu op, that’s centra screwing you over. 2.90 is still a lot for a 1.25l from the supermarket tho.

They're all screwing you over so bad, it's 1,20€ in my country
- We don’t even have to use euros in my country

1.25L for €4.95? Wow... $5.41 US. 42.268 fluid ounces, so $0.128 per ounce? Yeesh!

Here you can get a 12 pack of 16 ounce bottles for just under $7. $0.033 per ounce.

There's a secret trick: don't buy this kind of crap.