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.

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.

Water is the best

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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...?

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

Was this picture taken in Ireland OP?

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

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.

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

Please tell me that was at the airport

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

Let them go bankrupt

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Don't go into a Starbucks.

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

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

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

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.

It's like a dollar here in Brazil.

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.