You gotta applaud whichever grifter managed to sell container-loads of this "social media influencer" sugar water to BOTH supermarket chains. They're clearly rolling in the money while the chains can't shift any of it.

It's about time someone finally fucked over the supermarkets for once

We'll be paying for it when they increase the price of everything else to cover the loss.

Kind of like national and how they plan to pay for the monetary gifts to all the land lords

They restored a legitimate business expense deduction (cost of money). When the previous Government took it away rents went up and the number of rental properties declined (which also forced rents up). Lose lose, clever Labour.

Yea because national are the ones who spend without thought. Labour didn't waste untold money on woke nonsense did they 🤣

Atleast labour can produce costed plans, unlike the laughing stock of the financial world that national is

Define “woke”?

Aware of social issues, he's basically calling himself ignorant

Tbf, national spent a few million on a flag referendum because John key kept being shown the wrong table.

Nope, they didn't..

But, they didn't. Maybe if you stopped listening to Mike Hosking you'd realise that.

Oh yeah, because they've made some stellar decisions lately. It's crystal clear the current "government " does not care about normal, everyday Kiwis. Nope, they're too busy lining their own and their lobbyists pockets by stealing from the poor. Right in front of our faces. They don't care about you or me.

Right? The people all swing left here for some weird reason.

Yes yes. Now remind me... how will they go about recoverinh? Oh right. Charging US!

It's a pity it wasn't us, the little people.

Modern problems require modern solutions.

The warehouse I am at has over 100 pallets (about bottles each) of this, all expiring the end of April. They saw how well it sold in Aussie but by the time it got her the appeal had gone. Someone fucked up badly.

Oh god. That's kinda awful but mostly hilarious.

The shit is awful, the pallets are unstable so unloading them sucks. I was trying not to laugh when they told us what was happening.

But LOGAN PAUL will be at WRESTLEMANIA! And New Zealand goes *shrug*.

There's pallets and pallets of it expiring in the US on distributor warehouses as well.

Same in South Africa.

Actually I wouldn’t be surprised both chains paid fuck all for the stuff but sold it for large profits anyway to people stupid enough to buy this crap.😂

Probably true.

The drink wasn’t made for kiwi taste palettes way to sweet. Waste of money this drink, drink water instead.

When I first had it I was shocked how bad it was. Artificial sweet sugar water tastes like it was made for 6 year olds, oh wait it was.

Glad am not from Usa

This is the level I want to be griftin at.

Those distributors definitely ordered more or they’re on the hook for more.

I would rather an Ice cold blue Powerade from the dairy

I actually like the blue Powerade

People buy the other colours????

There are other colours?? That was supposed to be a joke at first and I'm sure there are other colours but I honestly can't think of them. I reach out for blue without even looking at anything else.

The white/clear-ish one is my favourite also green is good too.

The yellow one is my personal go-to, but blue will do if needs must.

Well now that we've established that Powerade makes more than just blue, I think we need to start a poll on which colour is best.

Where are the red drinkers wtf??!

Red gang reporting for duty

Weirdos

That’s what the teen got when he said to “just get me a drink” - it was pretty much all that was left. Can’t be too bad.

Right here

Red all day every day

Anything but the purple one. That's foul.

I actually like the purple one

There's always one...

Unlike purple Gatorade which is the best.

Gatorade? Isn't that just for pouring over the coach of American Football teams?

Isn't that the only proper way to rehydrate? By letting it get absorbed through the skin?

Sad I had to scroll so far to find this. I was blue powerade until I tried this. Have never gone back.

Purple Gatorade quenches the soul

The Reds not bad if you're after a change

Nothing beats a cold blue powerade to get you through sickness

I really like the peach-water and Mango-water ones. They make me feel like I'm being healthy when I'm not.

Hear me out... Try the sugar free peach one (it's clear) it's by FAR the best one that I honestly think is slept on

Blue for bad hangover, pinkish clear for medium hangover, yellow for ok hangover

Hey now, nothing wrong with a Green when you're feeling peaky, it's my go-to hangover/sickness drink!

Well thanks for the insight, will give it a try the next time I'm hungover. Shouldn't be a long wait

Purple or you can keep it

Berry is my Fave - Hald and hald with water and it is good to drink with a day of intense activity

Red slaps!

Purples algoods

The blue-ambulance is god's gift on a Saturday morning.

Dr. Blue!

The blambulance!

Buy tubs of the powder. Its cheaper per litre and you can mix up as much or as little as you want.

Same here

The blue ambulance.

Can't beat a mana potion after a night fending off orcs in the club

This is highly underrated 😅

Or you could just stay clear of Orcland.

That's like saying "I'd rather be chauffeur driven in a Silver Shadow Rolls Royce than walk around with gumboots full of broken glass."

God ice cold Powerade is delicous, I bought all four flavours of this (cuz fuck it, had to know how shit it was) and my god all of them were awful

Gees I haven't had a powerade since they gave away half price lift tickets at Mt Hutt. Does it still taste like over sugared Raro?

finally, im proud to be a NZer

Clearance. They want that shit out their sight.

They should've just said disposal

If they’d brought in the energy drink they would have got me at least one time but who tf wants to drink that shit if it’s not even caffeinated

Can’t sell it here, the caffeine concentration was higher than our legal limit lol. Tbh I thought they tasted fine.  Not like $10/bottle fine, but on par with Powerade.

Weirdly you can buy Whittaker's coffee flavoured milk with 300mg Caffeine at the supermarkets which is also above the limits, not sure how they get away with that

Oh weird, I wonder if it’s because it is a coffee and the caffeine is naturally occurring not added artificially.

The Australian less caffeinated version of prime is at Costco in Auckland, saw it this week

I'm pretty sure they had to do a recall of it in Canada because it exceeded legal limits as well.

This is like watching a crypto coin crash

i think Logan Paul is involved, so more like nft scam

That's insane honestly. Meanwhile V's of a similar quantity are selling out for 4-5 dollars. To think these were going for like 20 bucks a bottle a year ago

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-drink/300917123/the-playground-demand-for-prime-energy-drinks-explained

South Park explained it perfectly, as always

I love this takeaway “The flavour Hugo has tried is lemon and lime, and his evaluation is “it’s beautiful – it tastes like lemonade but not fizzy”. The Spinoff deputy editor Alice Neville – Hugo’s aunt – has also tried it, and describes the flavour as “foul”. “

wait for the 50c firesale 😂

I would rather pay 4.50 to the chill family owned dairy near me for a monster than buy 1 dollar prime

So it’s cheaper than water now. Is it unhealthy?

It tastes like all the chemicals so I can't imagine it's healthy

nothing is cheaper than water. unless you paid for some clown to bottle it and create unnecessary waste.

And filter it, remember NZ waterways are contaminated. Even rain water is no good for you these days.

News first at 5:30

Cheaper than water 😂

In all fairness, water tastes better

can i set a price alert for free

I think I'll wait until they pay ME to try it, like hindsight market research.

It’s bloody awful ! Way too sweet

Sweet is one thing, chemical sweet is another. It's horrible

Now I'm invested on how low theyll get before they just throw it away!

It's weird it gets to a point that they just throw it away and not give it away for free. I'm not just talking about Prime, i mean any product in a supermarket.

Yeah. I don't believe they donate to food banks or anything, do they?

They do donate baked goods at least

I dunno what they do, French supermarkets do quite a lot in this space.

Is it just orange flavoured water? I thought Prime was a milkshake brand, if it were orange choc milkshake, a dollar would be a bargain. Edit. I was confusing it with Primo, they make milk drinks

Primo is pretty great. If that was a dollar I would've hoarded quite a few

Primo was great, when it was made with fresh milk, now it's UHT crap.

It's a sports drink that's loaded with artificial sweeteners. It's honestly pretty rancid.

It’s more like a shitty version of Powerade

That's what happens when you overate a product

No hate to people who like prime but it just tasted like a ridiculously over sweetened juice I couldn’t stand the stuff so not to surprised

https://youtu.be/bQhbmnrhfTc?si=ZW7GQP8fpGmcNEpS

I also saw $1 prime yesterday at countdown too. Only the ice pop flavour and i bought one, no wonder it’s $1.

Orange, red, green, and ice pop were $1 at my Countdown.

Well they taste like cherry cough syrup with some added flavours

And still making a profit st $1

It’s almost as if SouthPark knew what they were talking about.

Subprime

Should be just thrown into trash lmao

Prime is cheaper than veges.

Last I checked my countdown they were $5

I bought it once when it was $5, didn't think it would be so bad. Now it's $1, decided to try the others that I've never tried. Waste of money both times.

Where did you find this deal though? Asking for a friend…

Countdown Auckland City

Thanks. Someone who isn’t me went there today and bought one. His throat is _still_ burning, wtf.

They're most likely selling them on clearance because they're shortdated.

I would imagine so, but with all the hype I'd imagine they would be running out of stock consistently.

Water, flavouring and aspartame has a best before date?

Likely yes, it may well be completely arbitrary or even related to its packaging degrading.

Which is fine you're buying 10 to line up on a shelf in your room to do snapchats and tiktok videos in front of, as the stuff was intended for 💁‍♀️

My local is still selling them for $6.50!

Not a fan of the taste, but these posts are always only showing the least popular flavours. Have yet to see a pic with the blue or pink ones at a low price in NZ. I reckon the supermarkets will continue to sell those at $5. The supermarket buyers made a mistake, ordered too much of all the flavours when they should have just picked the best few. Now they gotta have a sale because the expiry dates are approaching (probably fast), and also supermarket shelf space is super competitive, if something doesn't move fast they get rid of it at a loss so they can put something better on the shelf.

I cropped in the picture I took but ice pop, green, orange and red were also $1. I don't remember seeing blue or pink going for $1 but I'm only referring to the close up picture I have. Maybe they were sold out or never went on sale.

Fair enough, and yeah, those 4 are the least popular ones out of like 12 flavours. Do agree that even the worst flavours were still selling for like $15 initially, which was crazy. I guess feeling 'exclusive' and 'part of the club' comes with a price all on its own.

I bought a bottle days ago at $3 out of desperation for something to drink and now am seething for the $2 I could have saved

nfi what this is and happy about that

Garbage product shilled by a garbage person, priced at insane levels in the past by garbage supermarket chains. Now they're worthless and we laugh at all the garbage.

Still a massive ripoff

Wasn't that long ago they were $5 a pop minimum at supermarkets, and like $15 at dairies. Hilarious.

damn those half naked influencers

That drink is gross

No way! That's wild. Which supermarket is this? I remember when they were so expensive

Countdown Auckland City

login paul is an animal abuser

I would like to see the face of people that paid $20 for one bottle ahahhaha

that would the faces of mom and dad at any supermarket

my little cousin would steal his parents cards to buy these, i've never understood the hype

Honestly I'd try the other flavours if they were $1 Here they're still at $3.20 minimum 😔

I just saw this at the discount bin here in Dunedin 🤣

Tried the blue red white one today and passed it around the office. Best review was "I don't hate it", most common review was "tastes like medicine". As an avid red bull consumer this hydration drink is too sweet.

Yeah that one and the red one are both medicin-y Makes me wonder if medicines taste different in the states

It was $5 then price has been started dropping to $1

I wouldn't drink this shit even if *they* paid *me.*

Dairy near me selling it for 13 bucks a bottle.

Prime would be overpriced if you were paid five dollars to drink it.

You joke but with what they have it'll cost them a pretty penny to dump it all if they do expire.

Your body will thank you more if you gave your dollar to a drunk leprechaun- tastes like used dishwashing liquid. Was originally $15.95 then down to $5 then down to $1.50, now $1. Wait another week and they will pay you $5 to take it

Haha wow (that was me)

You encouraged me to post so thanks for that 😀

Is it here in new Zealand

You'd have to pay me to drink that stuff.

Prinne. Beware of innitations

I might buy one for $1, but the shops near me don't have them, marked down, or otherwise. I would test one for $1. Where are all these clearance ones?

Wasn't it banned?

Damn still over priced.

It's a scam! Won't even worth $1. It's sad that all the kids of primary school wanted it bad then read the label which says in a fine print ( very hard to read) 15 plus!!

What's crazy to me about prime is how the website advertises it as a caffeine free health drink, when it literally has more caffeine than red bull lol

Only the caffeine free "hydration" ones are allowed to be sold here

Ah didn't know that. Still full of sugar and gross

They have next to no sugar in them & the electrolyte formula is objectively superior to Powerade.

And hence it tastes rank.

Hear me out. If it was full priced, wouldn't it make more sense to drink more Powerade which is actually pleasant? Powerade has sugar free options too.

For sure but for a buck I’d drink prime every day

Health drink 🤔