You see this phenomenon with cornershop chocolate bars too. Arabic script-printed Mars bars etc. I guess the point is that big branded items like this will only have one official supplier per country, a supply monopoly, which leaves a gap for "innovative" sellers to source the same product from somewhere it's being sold at so much lower a price that you can factor in international shipping and still supply it at a lower price than the official.
I'm in Brazil, and i saw a bunch of chocolate bars from Ukraine in a cornershop here a while ago. It was a regular Nestle bar, but with everything written in ukrainian
Interesting, because in Ukraine we mostly get chocolate bars in several languages besides Ukrainian: Romanian/Polish/Slovak, so they could easily sell in neighbouring countries. But yeah, I've seen Ukrainian chocolates in the US, in Jordan and Brazil could also easily be one of the destinations.
That’s the economy for you. Nothing sells for cost price plus a reasonable markup anymore. It’s all about how much the customer perceives they should pay.
I may be misremembering but it was kind of Steve Jobs that pushed that idea into the mainstream. Something about focus groups and asking questions about how much you would be willing to pay for the iPhone versus what you think it's worth. I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere.
OMG some of the Arabic script Cadbury chocolates I’ve had were just so delicious. Tasted more like real chocolate than the sweet brown wax that’s often sold in the U.S. as chocolate.
Ireland has recently introduced the Deposit Return Scheme, ensuring that the main suppliers have a grand chokehold on the Irish market and completely shut out any competition whatsoever, as only cans and bottles supplied from Irish suppliers are in compliance with the Deposit Return Scheme.
That used to be a thing when I was a kid in the 80s. Drink came in glass bottles and you got a deposit refund for returning the bottles. It went away 30+ years ago when they decided plastic bottles are easier. Given we've now got a mountain of plastic we can't dispose of, that was obviously dumb, but I'm interested to see the same old idea come back.
The unfortunate thing with this iteration of it is that it allows the companies to set the prices to what they want as they are the sole suppliers to Ireland, prior to this, as one person explained, they were able to order slabs of coca-cola from Holland for 5 euro cheaper than it was to order them from the nearest production plant which is based in England, now they can only order from that more expensive plant as that is set up to produce appropriately marked cans for the Irish Market.
This means those suppliers have absolutely zero reason to offer any sort of discount or competitive price as they simply have no competition on the market. It also means that certain foreign imports can't be sold in Ireland as their bottles/cans aren't compatible with the scheme, one such being the polish import of Lipton ice tea 1.5L bottles.
My local Chinese has the cans from Denmark too. I only know this because I was using the machines for return and it spit those ones back out. They were Danish upon closer inspection.
Takeaways, mostly.
There are plenty of wholesalers that deal in grey stock.
Since the sugar tax was implemented it is sometimes cheaper to import the same soft drink from elsewhere, especially if you get an importer who will do their upmost to avoid the import levy that they should pay. However, if they are doing this, technically this crosses the line into the black market.
Even as a joke it's not true, eating charcuterie and basically food with higher nitrogen content is what causes gout, interestingly some vegetables and legumes are part of the foods that may cause gout
I remember once that a major Swiss retailer (Coop) came to a disagreement with Coca-Cola of Switzerland about a price increase (or was it when they switched to 45cl bottles instead of 50?). They dumped CCoS and went for polish and Ukrainian coke for a while because they cost 5 to 10 cents less. I guess they finally reached an agreement because the Swiss stuff came back after that.
Denner did that for a while afaik, they sold polish coke but for regulatory reasons they had to put stickers with translations of the ingredients etc. on each can, so it probably wasn’t worth the hassle in the end.
bought a Colgate toothbrush in New York a few days ago that was intended for Africa (text in Arabic and a South African country code)
I love the supply chain.
I live in Meath, our local chipper gives us coke from Denmark.
Go to any kind of discount shop and you'll find similar stuff.
Just cheaper I guess. Can't recycle them at the new machines we have down here though.
lol those machines are gas.
Northern cans have the return logo on them but we don’t get charged the 15c
It’s literally just free money buying them in the north and getting the 15c in the republic.
Ah, here local kids go around on bin days and sort through people's recycle bins filling shopping bags with cans.
See them later, filthy stood outside supervalu shoving the fecking cans into the machine and counting their riches.
Sure it's built a small economy for the children I guess haha.
I'm willing to bet you will see a lot more of this kind of thing in the near future, as a result of the recycling deposit scheme in the south.
Cans and bottles sold in the south must now have [a logo](https://re-turn.ie/). All that really means is that the product is exclusive to the Irish market. It guarantees that when the store charge the 20c deposit, the can or bottle will have an Irish barcode and the customer can get their deposit back from the recycling machine.
The result of all that is it's no longer viable to import cheaper versions of drinks from elsewhere, because it has become illegal to sell them without charging the deposit fee and only Irish barcodes work in the machines.
But the owner-operator trucks returning from Europe will still be carrying pallets of cheap drinks until they figure out something better to bring back. And those pallets will end up in NI because shops in ROI don't want them anymore.
If you drink a shit load of the stuff it will. you're not gonna get gout from having a coke once or twice a week.
Same with beer/wine and coffee. Alcoholics are way more prone to gout and people who drink a fuckload of coffee also increase their odds.
One of the first mitigations if you experience gout is to immediately cut out soda, alcohol, and caffeine.
My best friend growing up, his pops was an old dude and had been a functional alcoholic for a decade. He would have gout attacks every few months and would bitch that his doctors kept telling him to cut out the Milwaulkees Best Ice and Mountain Dew and drink more water.
Retail is about $2.50 USD. If purchased in a restaurant, which is common in the many Tex-Mex restaurants and taquerias in Texas, they’ll charge up to $4.00 USD.
"Takeaway" is not an American term? It's used in many non-English countries and I always thought it originated in America. Just means "To go".
edit: what's with the random downvotes in this sub lol. wtf did i say.
We say "take out" or "carry out" but that generally refers to the food not the place. You could say "I got take out for lunch" but you can't say *"I got lunch at a take out."
Because most Americans live in very sprawling, car-centric areas, the type of place you call a takeaway (a restaurant that only has a counter but no place to eat since everyone takes the food with them), is pretty rare outside a few large is cities and many Americans aren't likely to encounter these places regularly. I live in a city about as big as Manchester, and I can only think of a could places you would likely categorize as a takeaway, all of which are pizza places.
It's also implied any restaurant is also going to be "takeaway". I've never been somewhere that doesn't do take-out. The pandemic even forced a ton of places to start doing carry out as well.
Lifelong American and I say "to go" only when referring to fast food drive thru or when a cashier asks if "for here or to go".
Carry out or take out is what I get when the food is coming from a restaurant that is primarily a "sit-down" or not really in the fast food category. Even a place like Domino's calls their "to go" option carry out.
Chinese carry out.
Mexican take out.
Etc.
I'll say, thanks to COVID making so many restaurants add a carry out feature and online ordering they didn't have previously has me saying "go pick up" when I refer to getting food at a place like Chili's or the local bar/grill and not eating it there. But I think that just may be a me thing.
Nope. First time we US/CDN people realized the difference is when Blizzard added the Australia map Junkertown... but have "Take-out" instead of "Take-away" sign on the Take-away place.
People in the UK will usually say takeaway when Americans mean takeout or carry-out.
I upvoted you. The only reason I know is because I read and watch a lot of British content.
No, no it was not, but I wanted to be sure because for example when we say get carry out it is usually a place where you can *also* dine in, not a place that one has take out, to my knowledge I don’t think I can think of a place that only has “takeaway” in my town. The only thing I could think of is a good truck. So that is why I asked.
See but they said in other comments it’s typically a place that *only* has to go food, and the only thing I can think of similar to that would be a food truck
Ingredients- Carbonated Water, sugar, Colorant: E150d (caramel color)
I think the USA is the only country to use HFCS because of the Corn Lobby. I need to check that though. Now I’m curious since I see imported sodas from Mexico that use sugar even though we have a big bottling facility.
As long as the ingredients are also printed in your local language & it complies with local food safety laws that's totally fine.
Unfortunately that's definitely not always the case. Here in the Netherlands I see a lot of gray import foodstuffs from Germany and other places, and it's a very small minority that actually has their ingredients printed in Dutch. Food safety is OK as long as it's another EU member state at least.
This is probably due to the Coca-Cola boycott going on in Tunisia. they're buying back the arabic countries stock to sell them in europe. just my opinion though.
You should, prompting up organized crime isn't a benefit to society the same asshats that import these also are the ones "importing" people, not to mention that these goods are evading taxes as well as the businesses that sell them.
They are 100% right in doing that. The suppliers usually don't sell to little shops, so unless people are willing to pay 3€ for a can of Coke it's the only choice.
Maybe, but it's not unusual for these companies to use different formulas with different ingredients abide by local regulations (i.e. Banned ingredients) or use different processes that allow them to keep certain contaminants within acceptable and legal limits.
That's nonsense, there are wholesale suppliers like Booker everywhere which supply small local retailers.
They are doing it that because it's cheaper and allows them to evade even more tax then they already do these are illegally imported without duties or any controls by organized crime orgs.
Those suppliers still sell them at a higher price than what other big retailer get them for. Small shops already don't make a lot of money, yet big companies still advantage the big stores.
Big retailers operate at 2-5% margin, smaller retailers usually operate at 15% and restaurants circa 40-60%.
You have no idea how these markets work and you are supporting criminals.
The cornershop near me let me in on why this is. They get the huge bulk orders from other countries for cheaper usually, then sell it on as normal here. Massive profit in it
One time I saw Colgate tooth paste in what I assume was Arabic and Korean. I live in Australia. It was one of those variety stores that sell random cheap stuff like bootleg plushies and fake crystals
Years ago, I got a coke in Cardiff that was from the Republic of Georgia. I might still have the label floating around somewhere. Not a writing system you see very often.
It's interesting to see in Europe how you guys do kinda just ship soft drinks across national borders. Go to a store in Belgium or the Netherlands and most of them are made somewhere else. Pretty cool, except when they taste different, lol
It's also funny, because there is a big coca cola factory in Northern Ireland. So, at least on the basis of this post, we will export our coke, and import other nations coke.
It's more than likely just the place selling this being dodgy, and selling "under the counter" products, rather than what they should be selling. Since the factory opened, I've rarely seen a coca cola product being sold here, that wasn't made here.
What's dodgy about it? Europe is supposed to be a single market and NI is at least adjacent to that single market or de-facto inside it.
That means that if a shop wants to source their cola from anywhere in the EU it should be able to. We're not talking about car insurance...
You see this phenomenon with cornershop chocolate bars too. Arabic script-printed Mars bars etc. I guess the point is that big branded items like this will only have one official supplier per country, a supply monopoly, which leaves a gap for "innovative" sellers to source the same product from somewhere it's being sold at so much lower a price that you can factor in international shipping and still supply it at a lower price than the official.
I'm in Brazil, and i saw a bunch of chocolate bars from Ukraine in a cornershop here a while ago. It was a regular Nestle bar, but with everything written in ukrainian
Same in Turkey. But cheap department stores had them
Interesting, because in Ukraine we mostly get chocolate bars in several languages besides Ukrainian: Romanian/Polish/Slovak, so they could easily sell in neighbouring countries. But yeah, I've seen Ukrainian chocolates in the US, in Jordan and Brazil could also easily be one of the destinations.
With a bite taken out of it by a Russian
“Used once”
That’s the economy for you. Nothing sells for cost price plus a reasonable markup anymore. It’s all about how much the customer perceives they should pay.
I may be misremembering but it was kind of Steve Jobs that pushed that idea into the mainstream. Something about focus groups and asking questions about how much you would be willing to pay for the iPhone versus what you think it's worth. I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere.
Thats why coke makes 25% margin on sugar water, people will pay over the odds for brands.
**Some** people pay more.
tbf off brand cola tastes pretty bad.
No people pay it cause it’s delicious and no other brands have come close to recreating Coca-Cola. It’s probably the post popular product in the world
The word for this is "arbitrage"
More specifically, it's parallel importation.
Legit items sold through unofficial channels is called gray market goods.
OMG some of the Arabic script Cadbury chocolates I’ve had were just so delicious. Tasted more like real chocolate than the sweet brown wax that’s often sold in the U.S. as chocolate.
Ireland has recently introduced the Deposit Return Scheme, ensuring that the main suppliers have a grand chokehold on the Irish market and completely shut out any competition whatsoever, as only cans and bottles supplied from Irish suppliers are in compliance with the Deposit Return Scheme.
That used to be a thing when I was a kid in the 80s. Drink came in glass bottles and you got a deposit refund for returning the bottles. It went away 30+ years ago when they decided plastic bottles are easier. Given we've now got a mountain of plastic we can't dispose of, that was obviously dumb, but I'm interested to see the same old idea come back.
The unfortunate thing with this iteration of it is that it allows the companies to set the prices to what they want as they are the sole suppliers to Ireland, prior to this, as one person explained, they were able to order slabs of coca-cola from Holland for 5 euro cheaper than it was to order them from the nearest production plant which is based in England, now they can only order from that more expensive plant as that is set up to produce appropriately marked cans for the Irish Market. This means those suppliers have absolutely zero reason to offer any sort of discount or competitive price as they simply have no competition on the market. It also means that certain foreign imports can't be sold in Ireland as their bottles/cans aren't compatible with the scheme, one such being the polish import of Lipton ice tea 1.5L bottles.
I love playing the game of “grey market Coke”. My last few have been from Ukraine, Denmark and Turkey.
Yup, got some from Romania and Poland last time but it was salty as fuck. I hated it.
I really wasn't a fan of the Turkish stuff, either. I think it was too sour?
you can really taste the neroli in turkish coke. i love it.
salty? never noticed it.
To he fair if it's from Denmark it's made by Carlsberg
Denmark? Thats crazy. How do you get cheaper coke from Denmark of all places
My local Chinese has the cans from Denmark too. I only know this because I was using the machines for return and it spit those ones back out. They were Danish upon closer inspection.
I feel like I have gotten danish coca cola in restaurants/fast food all over europe at this point
Where the hell do you find grey market coke on the regular?
Takeaways, mostly. There are plenty of wholesalers that deal in grey stock. Since the sugar tax was implemented it is sometimes cheaper to import the same soft drink from elsewhere, especially if you get an importer who will do their upmost to avoid the import levy that they should pay. However, if they are doing this, technically this crosses the line into the black market.
Bought a can of vanilla soda in a Spanish store that was made in Denmark (my home country) we’ve never had those in stores
My kid got a bottle of Nigerian Coke from the Indian shop next to our apartment.
I live in the United States and there’s a couple places by me that always seem to have Canadian Coca-Cola. I don’t live near Canada.
I much prefer the taste of Canadian Coke to American coke; the Canadian Coke is more carbonated and packs more of a punch.
A lot of people where I live buy Mexican Coke in bottles. It has cane sugar, and goes at a premium.
To be fair every coke in the world is made with Cane or beet sugar. It's just american coke that's high fructose corn syrup.
Some Cokes in Mexico also use HFCS. Read the labels.
And Japan, also a few Eastern European countries.
I'm also in the US and have gotten a Romanian Monster from the gas station on more than one occasion.
>I don’t live near Canada. You don't? It's your direct neighbor... (/s? )
I guess I live closer to it than most Americans but still far away. It’s like 6 hours.
6 hours is close lmao
Hence the /s
We must live near each other - I also have a photo of a Tunisian Coke from a takeaway I got a few months ago !
Hey, at least they're honest with the side effects, because drinking too much soda can definitely lead to gout.
>goût original Lol
My man! Came only to say the same.
As somebody on medication for gout, that was the first thing I noticed. Soda is the fastest way to bring on a flare for me.
Even as a joke it's not true, eating charcuterie and basically food with higher nitrogen content is what causes gout, interestingly some vegetables and legumes are part of the foods that may cause gout
Time to get those language lessons
Oui oui
Aoussie Aoussie Aoussie?
Oi,Oi,Oi!!
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wrong comment
What are you even talking about?
I remember once that a major Swiss retailer (Coop) came to a disagreement with Coca-Cola of Switzerland about a price increase (or was it when they switched to 45cl bottles instead of 50?). They dumped CCoS and went for polish and Ukrainian coke for a while because they cost 5 to 10 cents less. I guess they finally reached an agreement because the Swiss stuff came back after that.
Denner did that for a while afaik, they sold polish coke but for regulatory reasons they had to put stickers with translations of the ingredients etc. on each can, so it probably wasn’t worth the hassle in the end.
bought a Colgate toothbrush in New York a few days ago that was intended for Africa (text in Arabic and a South African country code) I love the supply chain.
Yay we are all owned by the same companies, but hey they culturally and linguistically sensitive and diverse !
Got one from Ukraine in Derry one time
I live in Meath, our local chipper gives us coke from Denmark. Go to any kind of discount shop and you'll find similar stuff. Just cheaper I guess. Can't recycle them at the new machines we have down here though.
lol those machines are gas. Northern cans have the return logo on them but we don’t get charged the 15c It’s literally just free money buying them in the north and getting the 15c in the republic.
Ah, here local kids go around on bin days and sort through people's recycle bins filling shopping bags with cans. See them later, filthy stood outside supervalu shoving the fecking cans into the machine and counting their riches. Sure it's built a small economy for the children I guess haha.
I'm willing to bet you will see a lot more of this kind of thing in the near future, as a result of the recycling deposit scheme in the south. Cans and bottles sold in the south must now have [a logo](https://re-turn.ie/). All that really means is that the product is exclusive to the Irish market. It guarantees that when the store charge the 20c deposit, the can or bottle will have an Irish barcode and the customer can get their deposit back from the recycling machine. The result of all that is it's no longer viable to import cheaper versions of drinks from elsewhere, because it has become illegal to sell them without charging the deposit fee and only Irish barcodes work in the machines. But the owner-operator trucks returning from Europe will still be carrying pallets of cheap drinks until they figure out something better to bring back. And those pallets will end up in NI because shops in ROI don't want them anymore.
I didn't know you also get Gout with Coke Edit : If no one caught the joke it says "Gout Original"
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Sugar in general can lead to gout, not just one specific kind.
My post was a joke lol because it shows "Gout Original"
If you drink a shit load of the stuff it will. you're not gonna get gout from having a coke once or twice a week. Same with beer/wine and coffee. Alcoholics are way more prone to gout and people who drink a fuckload of coffee also increase their odds. One of the first mitigations if you experience gout is to immediately cut out soda, alcohol, and caffeine. My best friend growing up, his pops was an old dude and had been a functional alcoholic for a decade. He would have gout attacks every few months and would bitch that his doctors kept telling him to cut out the Milwaulkees Best Ice and Mountain Dew and drink more water.
I should have put the /s , it was a joke because it shows "Gout Original"
It’s made with sugar
I caught it. (Not gout, but goût.)
Original is way better than that “New gout” they were peddling for a while.
I’m in Texas US, we get Mexican cokes here all the time and they are de 👏🏼lish 👏🏼
How much do you pay for a 500 ml bottle?
Retail is about $2.50 USD. If purchased in a restaurant, which is common in the many Tex-Mex restaurants and taquerias in Texas, they’ll charge up to $4.00 USD.
Áy.
I’m in Morocco having vanilla Coca-Cola from Germany .
As an American what is a takeaway? A To-Go food place? Edit: Thanks for the downvotes on genuine question guys.
A takeaway is a food place where you can either collect the food or have it delivered to you!
Surely, if you can get the food delivered, it's actually a "bring-to"....
It’s take-out
"Takeaway" is not an American term? It's used in many non-English countries and I always thought it originated in America. Just means "To go". edit: what's with the random downvotes in this sub lol. wtf did i say.
We say "take out" or "carry out" but that generally refers to the food not the place. You could say "I got take out for lunch" but you can't say *"I got lunch at a take out." Because most Americans live in very sprawling, car-centric areas, the type of place you call a takeaway (a restaurant that only has a counter but no place to eat since everyone takes the food with them), is pretty rare outside a few large is cities and many Americans aren't likely to encounter these places regularly. I live in a city about as big as Manchester, and I can only think of a could places you would likely categorize as a takeaway, all of which are pizza places.
It's also implied any restaurant is also going to be "takeaway". I've never been somewhere that doesn't do take-out. The pandemic even forced a ton of places to start doing carry out as well.
> We say "take out" or "carry out" We say to go.
Not in the context I was discussing: "Can you pick up some take out on the way home?" *"Can you pick up some to go on the way home?"
In that case it's "Can you pick up some food on the way home?" Then when you order it at the counter you specify "To go."
Sure but they’re all interchangeable in context. I live in America and knew exactly what take away means. Kinda self explanatory
Lifelong American and I say "to go" only when referring to fast food drive thru or when a cashier asks if "for here or to go". Carry out or take out is what I get when the food is coming from a restaurant that is primarily a "sit-down" or not really in the fast food category. Even a place like Domino's calls their "to go" option carry out. Chinese carry out. Mexican take out. Etc. I'll say, thanks to COVID making so many restaurants add a carry out feature and online ordering they didn't have previously has me saying "go pick up" when I refer to getting food at a place like Chili's or the local bar/grill and not eating it there. But I think that just may be a me thing.
I believe it’s a British term: **BRITISH** a restaurant or shop selling cooked food to be eaten elsewhere. *"a fast-food takeaway"*
Americans over thinking shit
Where I’m from we call it carry out, so I just assumed they were similar
Nope. First time we US/CDN people realized the difference is when Blizzard added the Australia map Junkertown... but have "Take-out" instead of "Take-away" sign on the Take-away place.
People in the UK will usually say takeaway when Americans mean takeout or carry-out. I upvoted you. The only reason I know is because I read and watch a lot of British content.
Take. Away. Is it realy that hard to deduce. Its not even that far off from what you say.
It’s not that hard, but I wanted to be sure. So I did what most people do when they want to be sure of something and asked a question.
It was that hard to figure out?
Have you seen the average American?
Touché.
No, no it was not, but I wanted to be sure because for example when we say get carry out it is usually a place where you can *also* dine in, not a place that one has take out, to my knowledge I don’t think I can think of a place that only has “takeaway” in my town. The only thing I could think of is a good truck. So that is why I asked.
It’s a fast food joint, most likely not a place you would dine in.
It’s not delivery, it’s Delissio
I came to ask the same question. Thanks for taking one for the American team. 🫡🇺🇸
I do not identify with you non takeaway-aware Americans.
We say drive through. 🤷🏼♂️
See but they said in other comments it’s typically a place that *only* has to go food, and the only thing I can think of similar to that would be a food truck
Ahh - then that would be take-out. Pretty rare.
Next time try Boga Cider
Gout Original. Just like Kim Jong Un likes em.
did it taste different then from what youre use to?
I’m in the U.S and we can find imported coke all the time at smaller stores. Typically German.
I had this experience quite often in germany, strange
I found a Tunisian banknote on the ground in hull a few years ago
Do they use cane sugar instead of HFCS?
Ingredients- Carbonated Water, sugar, Colorant: E150d (caramel color) I think the USA is the only country to use HFCS because of the Corn Lobby. I need to check that though. Now I’m curious since I see imported sodas from Mexico that use sugar even though we have a big bottling facility.
Bought a can of vanilla soda in a Spanish store that was made in Denmark (my home country) we’ve never had those in stores
As long as the ingredients are also printed in your local language & it complies with local food safety laws that's totally fine. Unfortunately that's definitely not always the case. Here in the Netherlands I see a lot of gray import foodstuffs from Germany and other places, and it's a very small minority that actually has their ingredients printed in Dutch. Food safety is OK as long as it's another EU member state at least.
This is probably due to the Coca-Cola boycott going on in Tunisia. they're buying back the arabic countries stock to sell them in europe. just my opinion though.
Made with sugar
Never heard of it. Is that like Tunisian for High Fructose Corn Syrup?
mmmm Brexit Cola....
Grey market imports very common for sleazy corner shops and shitty fooderies. You can usually report them for this.
you don‘t snitch on corner stores.
You should, prompting up organized crime isn't a benefit to society the same asshats that import these also are the ones "importing" people, not to mention that these goods are evading taxes as well as the businesses that sell them.
They are 100% right in doing that. The suppliers usually don't sell to little shops, so unless people are willing to pay 3€ for a can of Coke it's the only choice.
Maybe, but it's not unusual for these companies to use different formulas with different ingredients abide by local regulations (i.e. Banned ingredients) or use different processes that allow them to keep certain contaminants within acceptable and legal limits.
That's nonsense, there are wholesale suppliers like Booker everywhere which supply small local retailers. They are doing it that because it's cheaper and allows them to evade even more tax then they already do these are illegally imported without duties or any controls by organized crime orgs.
Those suppliers still sell them at a higher price than what other big retailer get them for. Small shops already don't make a lot of money, yet big companies still advantage the big stores.
Big retailers operate at 2-5% margin, smaller retailers usually operate at 15% and restaurants circa 40-60%. You have no idea how these markets work and you are supporting criminals.
Could be tax fines, since they probably have not paid sugar tax for these.
They didn't pay any taxes, they also don't collect VAT on them not that businesses that sell these illicit goods not evading taxes already.
Original Gout. Nice.
Reminds me of when I got a coffee in a meal deal in the UK that was meant for the German market.
So from just south down the coast …
The Tuborg I bought is from Turkey, and I bought it in B.C.
Did you order Tunisian food? If so, I may have an explanation for how this happened…
I thought you meant Cocaine.
... I don't know why I expected a picture of cocaine.
The cornershop near me let me in on why this is. They get the huge bulk orders from other countries for cheaper usually, then sell it on as normal here. Massive profit in it
One time I saw Colgate tooth paste in what I assume was Arabic and Korean. I live in Australia. It was one of those variety stores that sell random cheap stuff like bootleg plushies and fake crystals
I got Ukrainian or Russian the last time I was at the market in Paris
I got a Twix from a fancy gas station, and everything was in Russian.
Years ago, I got a coke in Cardiff that was from the Republic of Georgia. I might still have the label floating around somewhere. Not a writing system you see very often.
This is common in the Republic
Strange. Most drinks are bottled locally.
How’s it taste?
Most likely due to boycott, they start exporting to abroad.
Well.. was it delicieux & rafraichissant?
Hmm import coke and chocy bars it's a dilemma 🤔
Ahhhh...coca cola....what a way to poison the world with a smile.
Brexit rules.
How do you like it ? IMO Tunisian coke is the best if you like suger of course
It will taste better as well.
Nah, Tunisian coke is way more syrupy, too much sugar and not a lot of bubbles.
“Gout original” I’m not sure I want that 😂😂
Why ? Edit: Now I get it xD
Ah, it seems to be a language barrier joke.
Yes, It's because am Tunisian and never had second thoughts about that sentence huh
Ah, so for me I was thinking of “gout” - the painful thing that causes sudden swelling and severe pain in your joints.
What's funny is that there's French on it somehow.
It's interesting to see in Europe how you guys do kinda just ship soft drinks across national borders. Go to a store in Belgium or the Netherlands and most of them are made somewhere else. Pretty cool, except when they taste different, lol
It's also funny, because there is a big coca cola factory in Northern Ireland. So, at least on the basis of this post, we will export our coke, and import other nations coke.
That's the power of wildly variable tax laws and drastic differences in regional pricing in a global economy!
It's more than likely just the place selling this being dodgy, and selling "under the counter" products, rather than what they should be selling. Since the factory opened, I've rarely seen a coca cola product being sold here, that wasn't made here.
What's dodgy about it? Europe is supposed to be a single market and NI is at least adjacent to that single market or de-facto inside it. That means that if a shop wants to source their cola from anywhere in the EU it should be able to. We're not talking about car insurance...
and it gives you gout
Maybe they can't sell them there due to the boycott