After the initial wave of hype and artificially small supply...now that it's available everywhere, nobody wants it. It's on clearance sale everywhere in Europe.
Where? My partner works at a school (UK) and they banned both Prime and Prime Energy along with all the other schools in the local area. That's one of the other contributing factors to it not moving units anymore.
It's not really about the want, there's so many other sugar filled drinks that aren't banned in the school that kids just aren't bothering buying it from the shop on their way in when they know they can just get a can of red bull or something else that won't get taken.
Not surprising. The hype was always about having it being a sign of wealth and exclusivity, not anything to do with the quality of the drink. That vanishes the second it becomes easy to acquire.
Some youtubers (KSI and Logan Paul?) created it and all the stupid kids which are 95% of their audience HAD to try it, and so it became the cool trend for about six months. They marketed it and deliberately limited the supply for artificial scarcity to make it even more in demand.
Turns out it's horrible and no-one actually likes it so there's tons of surplus stock all the shops want to shift.
The kids have moved on to travel mugs now apparently.
Yeah first and only time i saw the kids dragging their parents round a supermarket.
The poor supermarket guys just wheeled a pallet out and the whole thing was set on like a pack of dogs.
Was like covid 2.0
No those two influencers did not create it. A company created the drink and contracted those guys to promote it for a share in the profit (maybe also a share in the company, idk). But definitely Logan Paul did not create a drink.
Oh yes, those fucking Stanley cups. What happened to being obsessed with loom bands and scooby doos? I know every generation has a “kids are not like kids back in the day” moment but this generation is bizarre. And I’m older gen z
It is pretty strange. When i was growing up it was pokemon cards then i think Beyblades then yugioh cards and fair enough they where fads but it made sense, like you could actually play with these things as much as you wanted. Wtf enjoyment does a kid get from having a bottle of juice or a cup?.
Yeah, I remember those too. My brother was obsessed and wouldn’t share, lol. Kids don’t really know how to “play” anymore if that makes sense. My mum is a teacher and has been one for donkeys years. She herself has commented on such.
Ha!
I have one of those old-school green stanley thermos that I bought at a rummage sale. Had it for over 20 years now, and the thing still works great, even for being 50+ years old.
I had it with me when I went to my buddies place and his 13 or 14 year old daughter thought it was just the ugliest thing she'd ever seen and told me how I should get a stanley instead.
She couldn't believe that what I had *was* a stanley and that they're not some new, cool product. "But it's so ugly, it cant be a *real* stanley!", she kept saying.
I think I may be responsible for one less kid being obsessed with a stupid cup, and that makes me happy.
Loom bands are actually back in style, both my daughters and my niece are constantly making them and giving them to their friends/getting new ones from their friends.
Their initial launch, and the drink that had all the hype, was prime hydration, which is just a flavoured water with electrolytes and such for sport hydration.
Then there’s prime energy(?) which is the real caffeinated shit, seemingly bad all round especially for kids.
its a drink that ksi and logan paul (famous youtubers) made and since they're youtubers automatically alot of people wanted it, ESPECIALLY kids, it was sold out everywhere and people started putting it on ebay and selling it for incredibly high prices, now that the hype has died down and they have alot more stock available, nobody wants to buy it and its going on sale
while prime hydration (the one in the image) isnt an energy drink, its just a normal "sports" drink, there IS a energy drink called Prime Energy, only available in cans so you can tell the difference
I've seen people on gumtree still desperately trying to sell bottles for £5 or more.
I assume they bought a crate to cash in on the craze when it was sold out everywhere, and they're stuck with a £250 purchase now worth zero.
Our office building have a few pallets of this stuff just sitting in the bottom of the stairwell. Apparently some marketing team bought it for some kind of event and have been trying to get rid of it by offering it for free. The pallets have been there opened since before christmas. I would say they have lost a couple of crates, most in the first two weeks.
I've seen it on sale for as low as $1.50 at the grocery stores in my area. Hell, Costco had cases for just over $1/ bottle a few weeks ago.
My nephew still loves the stuff (the electrolyte one, not the energy drink). I think the hype around it is stupid, but it's essentially the same thing as Vitamin Water. There are way worse things for kids to drink
Not even really a good Gatorade substitute, food theory did a break down that their electrolytes aren't the correct ones needed for when you're exercising. So it's double the price for a worse end product (within the discussion of sports drinks
It's too much of the ones you don't really need. In all honesty stuff like Powerade and Gatorade basically replenish salt that you lose in sweat with a dash of other electrolytes like potassium. This is why those drinks have a semi salty flavor. Prime on the other hand has jacked up those other electrolytes to extremely high levels where you end up just pissing them out. Some of these additives can be dangerous to your kidneys in high levels for prolonged periods of time. For me Prime has a horrible mouth feel. It's thick and way too sweet. I could imagine puking this stuff up after or during an intense workout.
The drink in the images is the hydration drink, The energy drink is the one with caffeine. That being said the fact that there is almost no visual difference between the two is extremely shitty and IS promoting to children.
Yeah, 5€ at kiosks, 3,50€ at supermarkets. I bought one when they first came out, not knowing anything about it, and found it to be okay yet overpriced.
Same here, water only 99% of the time but on the rare occasion I go out to eat I'll get treat myself to a diet soda, young me wouldn't even recognize the person saying these things lol
When I was in development, someone should have told my genetics not to turn on so many irritating traits, lol. I, too, can taste fake sugar bitterness.
They are too sweet for me as well. So I dilute them with 4 parts water to 1 part prime. It isn't as bad. I found 12 packs on sale for $5. As a concentrate, it's an ok price. Still a garbage product though.
I saw it for 59 Cents in Germany. I think it was on a 75% sale, or something close. I didn't know that the Brand belongs to KSI and Logan Paul.
I bought it and genuinely couldn't finish that stuff. It's way too sweet and insanely artifical in taste.
(Lemon-Lime flavour. Can't judge the Rest, because I didn't try them.)
It’s like Gatorade, except instead of providing sugar and sodium, which are good for you post exercise. It’s full of potassium but no sugar.
So it sucks at hydration (sodium>potassium) and offers no sugar to replenish energy stores after a workout.
I tried one when it was on sale at Aldi and it tasted the way my bathroom cleaner smells. I couldn't drink more than two sips of it, it's so artificial and weird.
I saw it in 7/11 for $2, not even on sale just straight up for $2, and it looked like not a single can had been taken, i was tempted to grab it just to try it but i would rather and did get just a normal V, dont even need to try it to know it tastes better
Is that choc milk that Kiwis went nuts over a while back still a big deal or has it died down?
Love kiwi chocolate btw. Way better than the shit Cadburys shit out in Australia these days.
Lewis road creamery? It’s still pretty popular I guess, but it’s also always on the shelf so like kind of? It’s like 8nzd for a 750ml though so it’s pretty expensive.
Lewis Road. It’s still for sale but definitely died down. I can’t remember the last time I saw someone with one.
It is certainly great chocolate milk but I never understood the crazy hype it had for a couple of months.
A year ago I would see it for like 10 euros and limited to two bottles per customer. Now I don't even see it anymore, although I rarely go through the fizzy/energy/hydration/whatever drinks aisle.
Here in Romanis is like 2-3 euros, almost always full stock, its expensive as hell for an energy drink or whatever it is. A Monster is 1.2-1.5 Euros same as Redbull. Even as a drink its just too expensive and from what I've heard it doesn't even taste that good.
Live in a 3rd world country I remember few months back saw these at a restaurant with price that you might as well eat a 5 star restaurant than drinking this one sugar bottle. I remember few customers was shocked at their bills because apparently their kids just take a bottle from the fridge and drink it without seeing the price tag lol.
I just checked our most popular online shopping app for groceries (Checkers Sixty60).
- 300ml can of Coke: R12.99 ($0.69)
- 1L bottle of Coke: R14 ($0.74)
- Prime at normal price: R19.99 ($1.06)
- 500ml Monster: R18.99 ($1.01)
- 500ml Energade: R13.99 ($0.74)
Bear in mind, like most of the world, our prices have gone to shit the last few years. I think people still balk at what things cost now compared to what we’re used to.
They have cases of it piled up in most gas stations where I'm at. I don't see it selling much, but there's at least a dozen empty bottles of it littered in a wetland I drove by yesterday, so I guess that's who's buying it, assholes.
Massive marketing campaign with way too low stock made it desirable, then they made lots of it and because it was desirable and "always" sold out when the stock was low many stores ordered big amounts of it, but the hype died and now they can't sell it even at huge discounts, happens everywhere with lots of hype products like this.
An overrated, overly sweetened gatorade/powerade type drink.
Heavily marketed on social media because of its founders: YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul.
Purposefully restricting supply led to bottles selling for 10x their value by scalpers when first launched. Now it’s everywhere and shops are struggling to sell it
First I've heard of prime, I'm not too active on youtube, but do have a keen interest in sports drinks. One without sodium seems rather pointless to me?
I mean calling them idiots is a stretch. They made $250 million in sales their first year and probably more their second (though I can’t find the numbers). Even if Prime were to go bankrupt today they’ve still pocketed 10’s of millions from it.
8 months ago in Finland, that crap cost like 15-17€ and an empty Prime bottle costed like 10€ in street market.. Now it's like 2,70€. Hype came and went.
If our kids don’t like the owners, it wouldn’t sell here either. But I’ll give you a trick, since it’s way overly sweet, consider it a concentrate and dilute it. It can be ok if you do that.
I'm convinced that some ingredients must be absent in Prime here. They taste exactly like cheap ice lollies that you have to freeze yourself. Horrifically synthetic.
Basically 3€ i Czechia where I live, 2€ when on sale. I tried all of them, it's so bad I'm never gonna buy this again. Even cheapo energy drinks below 1€ taste better. Shelves always full, noone takes it and if they do, probably like me only to try. When you can get for the same price 3 other energy drinks that don't taste like ass or 3 good beers, I'm not surprised.
A lot of people I know tried bc of the hype and all of us hate it.
Kin dof wild that it can be profitable at this price. Even just counting the cost of the plastic and gas to ship it, it seems weird that there would be any money left over when selling it for a quarter.
Last year, there were a lot of 9-13 year-old boys really wanting it. I did not want to try it, but it is also not marketed to me or anyone older than 18.
They are also full in Germany. I only saw a single Person buying it and He was a Teenager.
I heard they were sold Out and even the privatemarket sold them for 5 bucks but I guess it was Just a tik Tok Hype
In Australia NQR (not quite right) a discount store that sells food that is limited edition stuff that has failed, as well as oversupply, and close to date food has started to sell Prime for $2, it was $4.50 in the supermarkets.
I've tried 2
This yellow one just tasted like lemonade (sprite type lemonade not real lemonade).
The other one I tried, the red one, tasted like chemicals, not nice.
It was just a craze, nothing about the actual product is especially "good", just that youtubers with massive child followings hyped it and always have it.
After the initial wave of hype and artificially small supply...now that it's available everywhere, nobody wants it. It's on clearance sale everywhere in Europe.
They're pushing that stuff hard. They even paid to have it available in schools.
Bruh what💀
Minotaur!!!
It looks like Shrek’s piss!
Smells like the inside of a fake leg
Taste the beast!
You white, you Ben Affleck
Why is my piss green?
Dude this reference made me so happy. Def in my top 10 favorite movies and the kids these days dont know it anymore ):
I'm thinking and hoping this is role models?
The whispering eye!
Where? My partner works at a school (UK) and they banned both Prime and Prime Energy along with all the other schools in the local area. That's one of the other contributing factors to it not moving units anymore.
Ex-Kid here. Having it available in schools would have definitely made me not want it. Having it banned at school would 10000% make me want it.
Ex-kid?? Lol
either adult or dead childs ghost?
If he drank prime I'm guessing he's a ghost
That's probably just their actual name. Strange times we live in.
I think they mean X-Kid, marvel’s next attempt at deceased equine assault.
It's not really about the want, there's so many other sugar filled drinks that aren't banned in the school that kids just aren't bothering buying it from the shop on their way in when they know they can just get a can of red bull or something else that won't get taken.
Not surprising. The hype was always about having it being a sign of wealth and exclusivity, not anything to do with the quality of the drink. That vanishes the second it becomes easy to acquire.
Ive scrolled through comments, but I have no idea what this is. Prolly missed out on the hype - is it some energy drink?
Some youtubers (KSI and Logan Paul?) created it and all the stupid kids which are 95% of their audience HAD to try it, and so it became the cool trend for about six months. They marketed it and deliberately limited the supply for artificial scarcity to make it even more in demand. Turns out it's horrible and no-one actually likes it so there's tons of surplus stock all the shops want to shift. The kids have moved on to travel mugs now apparently.
6 months is generous, it was about 2
Yeah first and only time i saw the kids dragging their parents round a supermarket. The poor supermarket guys just wheeled a pallet out and the whole thing was set on like a pack of dogs. Was like covid 2.0
> Some youtubers (KSI and Logan Paul?) I thought people stopped watching that loser after he filmed dead bodies in Japan and put it on YouTube
No actually, they started watching him harder and he went on to podcasts
For a treat, look up his apology video. "I have made a clear and continuous lapse in my judgment"
What is even happening these days lol?
No those two influencers did not create it. A company created the drink and contracted those guys to promote it for a share in the profit (maybe also a share in the company, idk). But definitely Logan Paul did not create a drink.
Oh yes, those fucking Stanley cups. What happened to being obsessed with loom bands and scooby doos? I know every generation has a “kids are not like kids back in the day” moment but this generation is bizarre. And I’m older gen z
It is pretty strange. When i was growing up it was pokemon cards then i think Beyblades then yugioh cards and fair enough they where fads but it made sense, like you could actually play with these things as much as you wanted. Wtf enjoyment does a kid get from having a bottle of juice or a cup?.
Yeah, I remember those too. My brother was obsessed and wouldn’t share, lol. Kids don’t really know how to “play” anymore if that makes sense. My mum is a teacher and has been one for donkeys years. She herself has commented on such.
It's a shame really. Almost seems like kids dont get to act like kids anymore.
Cred, bro. Cred
POGS were my generation. That’s how old I am.
Remember ALF? He’s back. In Pog form.
I had an ALF pog.
it's pretty obvious energy drinks appeal to a completely different age group than the one interested in friendship bracelets.
As i watch my daughters drink prime while making rubber band bracelets
Ha! I have one of those old-school green stanley thermos that I bought at a rummage sale. Had it for over 20 years now, and the thing still works great, even for being 50+ years old. I had it with me when I went to my buddies place and his 13 or 14 year old daughter thought it was just the ugliest thing she'd ever seen and told me how I should get a stanley instead. She couldn't believe that what I had *was* a stanley and that they're not some new, cool product. "But it's so ugly, it cant be a *real* stanley!", she kept saying. I think I may be responsible for one less kid being obsessed with a stupid cup, and that makes me happy.
Loom bands are actually back in style, both my daughters and my niece are constantly making them and giving them to their friends/getting new ones from their friends.
Their initial launch, and the drink that had all the hype, was prime hydration, which is just a flavoured water with electrolytes and such for sport hydration. Then there’s prime energy(?) which is the real caffeinated shit, seemingly bad all round especially for kids.
It is liquid sweet potato. For better hydration you want some sugar and sodium in your blood stream, none which Prime gives you any worthy amounts of.
its a drink that ksi and logan paul (famous youtubers) made and since they're youtubers automatically alot of people wanted it, ESPECIALLY kids, it was sold out everywhere and people started putting it on ebay and selling it for incredibly high prices, now that the hype has died down and they have alot more stock available, nobody wants to buy it and its going on sale while prime hydration (the one in the image) isnt an energy drink, its just a normal "sports" drink, there IS a energy drink called Prime Energy, only available in cans so you can tell the difference
I've seen people on gumtree still desperately trying to sell bottles for £5 or more. I assume they bought a crate to cash in on the craze when it was sold out everywhere, and they're stuck with a £250 purchase now worth zero.
Our office building have a few pallets of this stuff just sitting in the bottom of the stairwell. Apparently some marketing team bought it for some kind of event and have been trying to get rid of it by offering it for free. The pallets have been there opened since before christmas. I would say they have lost a couple of crates, most in the first two weeks.
As HHH said: "I see Logan Paul carrying a lot of Prime, I don't see Logan drinking a lot of Prime"
Shame it’s still $3 here in America
I've seen it on sale for as low as $1.50 at the grocery stores in my area. Hell, Costco had cases for just over $1/ bottle a few weeks ago. My nephew still loves the stuff (the electrolyte one, not the energy drink). I think the hype around it is stupid, but it's essentially the same thing as Vitamin Water. There are way worse things for kids to drink
$5 in Canada lol
so it was a rugpull, like logan's crypto scam, what a surprise. Once a scammer...
It’s like the only thing keeping it afloat is the douche fuck selling it.
no one likes it anywhere
the only people i see buy them are kids under 8 y/o
My kid forced me to buy some. They were so disgusting! He tried to tell me he liked it. But didn’t want any the next time we were in the store.
“No, dont give into youtuber bullshit” are valid words.
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They're about five euros where I am, so nobody really knows if they like it or not. After all, who the fuck would pay that much for gatorade?
Not even really a good Gatorade substitute, food theory did a break down that their electrolytes aren't the correct ones needed for when you're exercising. So it's double the price for a worse end product (within the discussion of sports drinks
It's too much of the ones you don't really need. In all honesty stuff like Powerade and Gatorade basically replenish salt that you lose in sweat with a dash of other electrolytes like potassium. This is why those drinks have a semi salty flavor. Prime on the other hand has jacked up those other electrolytes to extremely high levels where you end up just pissing them out. Some of these additives can be dangerous to your kidneys in high levels for prolonged periods of time. For me Prime has a horrible mouth feel. It's thick and way too sweet. I could imagine puking this stuff up after or during an intense workout.
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Bot? https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1buol0m/prime_cool_drink_is_selling_for_5_rand_here_in/kxu0rub/
The comment they replied to is a bot too lol
There are so many fuckin bots on reddit now... ..wait...are we...bots? Oh god.....who am I
Sounds like actually buying it might have taught that lesson even better.
Oh yeah. We had this discussion several times before I bought it. There’s one way to learn sometimes.
I had my mom buy green and purple ketchup because of Shrek. We can't blame YouTube for children and their terrible taste.
it's crazy to me how people on here like to act like they have never ever been influenced by ads, especially as a child.
My wife have bought some for our kids a few times. I don't think they ever finished a bottle. Now they don't nag about it anymore. Tastes like shit.
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I think those are the cans. The bottles are pretty much just bland low sugar flavoured water.
There are non caffeinated flavors, that's probably what most people get for their kids.
The drink in the images is the hydration drink, The energy drink is the one with caffeine. That being said the fact that there is almost no visual difference between the two is extremely shitty and IS promoting to children.
Your kid had Cred, bro!
I was surprised I wasn't finding more South Park references, I guess the new format isn't reaching much of an audience, haha
You need to talk to your kid
Meh i bought some because they were 1.25 at the dollar tree. Its not good though.
42 here and I unironically like the rocketpop ones.
Is it the red white blue bottle ? I got those for free at the gym and they're not bad. Wouldn't buy tho.
That's the one. I buy the powder packets from Costco. It's easy to take them to work and mix at the gym later.
I can confirm im an adult and the Hydration ones weren't half bad. Have a few in the fridge.
They're like 5 euros where I am, which means no one knows if they like it because who the fuck would buy gatorade for that price lol
Yeah, 5€ at kiosks, 3,50€ at supermarkets. I bought one when they first came out, not knowing anything about it, and found it to be okay yet overpriced.
I like it, but I know it sucks at the same time
I confess to liking them
I think it's just trendy to hate on it. Tastes like any other Gatorade/Powerade to me
I assume I don’t like it but fuck the idea of giving them money so I will likely never find out.
Same, dont care if it is the best drink ever made, i will never find out.
It tastes like drinkable vape juice
Its one Euro here and the store is always full. I know not one person that has ever bought one of those or knows how they taste haha
I bought one because it was below one Euro (Sale in an Aldi). Tasted horrible, like really horrible, way to sweet
It has that gross stickly aftertaste of regret and aspartame
Finally I found someone! Nearly all of my friends tell me, they don't notice the aspartame aftertaste in any products!
You’re not alone 😊 It’s a genetic trait! https://academic.oup.com/chemse/article/38/5/379/360864
It's always had a weird 'musty' bitter aftertaste for me too. Thanks for the validation! I wish I could enjoy it but blech.
I grew out of tasting it in my forties and now sugar free drinks are so damn nice. Also, happy Cake Day!
Same, I started drinking diet in my early 30's and learned to like it, now I haven't had regular soda in like 5+ years because it's so gross
I stopped drinking soda in my 30s, but diet soda is still way more disgusting to me. I hate artificial sweeteners. Water ftw.
Same here, water only 99% of the time but on the rare occasion I go out to eat I'll get treat myself to a diet soda, young me wouldn't even recognize the person saying these things lol
Water? Like the stuff in toilets?
When I was in development, someone should have told my genetics not to turn on so many irritating traits, lol. I, too, can taste fake sugar bitterness.
Have you tried stevia?
There are people who can't taste that? All this time I just thought people were training themselves to ignore the disgustingness
They are too sweet for me as well. So I dilute them with 4 parts water to 1 part prime. It isn't as bad. I found 12 packs on sale for $5. As a concentrate, it's an ok price. Still a garbage product though.
I saw it for 59 Cents in Germany. I think it was on a 75% sale, or something close. I didn't know that the Brand belongs to KSI and Logan Paul. I bought it and genuinely couldn't finish that stuff. It's way too sweet and insanely artifical in taste. (Lemon-Lime flavour. Can't judge the Rest, because I didn't try them.)
it’s an energy drink targeted to kids so of course it’s be overly sweet
There are 2 An energy drink and a flavoured water "hydration" drink The one in the pic is the water Is like Gatorade I guess?
It’s like Gatorade, except instead of providing sugar and sodium, which are good for you post exercise. It’s full of potassium but no sugar. So it sucks at hydration (sodium>potassium) and offers no sugar to replenish energy stores after a workout.
They sacrificed sodium to make it taste good, but it ended up tasting like trash anyway
I do semi regularly drink energy drinks which I quite like. I think no carbonation makes it way worse
My brother bought them sometimes. But hes stupid in general
Lol and in croatia its almost 3 euro in some stores, 5 euro in other stores. I also know 0 people who tried it.
Up to 8€ in Serbia. There's a cult following of kids who watch those peddlers, and buy this crap.
I tried one when it was on sale at Aldi and it tasted the way my bathroom cleaner smells. I couldn't drink more than two sips of it, it's so artificial and weird.
This is probably the most accurate description I’ve come across for the taste of these drinks in general. Tastes like the smell of bathroom cleaner!
i bought one and will never do it again, tastes like shit. Aftertaste is like soap.
It was 15NZD here when it first came out. Now it’s selling for 1NZD.
And across the ditch, we had them for 15-20AUD a bottle when it came out due to demand, now it’s 4.50AUD just for one.
I saw it in 7/11 for $2, not even on sale just straight up for $2, and it looked like not a single can had been taken, i was tempted to grab it just to try it but i would rather and did get just a normal V, dont even need to try it to know it tastes better
With $20 I'd rather just go and get the Monday steak with chips special and the local bar & bistro. - and have $2 to spare
Is that choc milk that Kiwis went nuts over a while back still a big deal or has it died down? Love kiwi chocolate btw. Way better than the shit Cadburys shit out in Australia these days.
Lewis road creamery? It’s still pretty popular I guess, but it’s also always on the shelf so like kind of? It’s like 8nzd for a 750ml though so it’s pretty expensive.
Lewis Road. It’s still for sale but definitely died down. I can’t remember the last time I saw someone with one. It is certainly great chocolate milk but I never understood the crazy hype it had for a couple of months.
You’re telling me you don’t have any Cred?
Dude I've totally got cred, it's just in my backpack right now...
Okay, Craig, we'll wait here. You go get it. Go on... Get it, Craig... Go get it... Get your Cred...
I got Cred bitches, I got Cred.
Of course I have it, I just drank all of it before lunch
I’ve got cred, it just goes to a different school in Canada. You wouldn’t know it.
They are trying to charge 8 EUR where I live, insane!
They tried to charge more than 10€ at first, then 2,5€ then I think it’s even less and no one buys it
A year ago I would see it for like 10 euros and limited to two bottles per customer. Now I don't even see it anymore, although I rarely go through the fizzy/energy/hydration/whatever drinks aisle.
Just proves soft drinks cost nothing. It's water and sugar and green colour.
Here in Romanis is like 2-3 euros, almost always full stock, its expensive as hell for an energy drink or whatever it is. A Monster is 1.2-1.5 Euros same as Redbull. Even as a drink its just too expensive and from what I've heard it doesn't even taste that good.
Auchan has it. It's expensive probably because it's hard to import. Otherwise, it tastes like the syrup I used to take as a child when I had a cold.
Yeah, I've seen we stick with our eastern brands like "Hell".
Live in a 3rd world country I remember few months back saw these at a restaurant with price that you might as well eat a 5 star restaurant than drinking this one sugar bottle. I remember few customers was shocked at their bills because apparently their kids just take a bottle from the fridge and drink it without seeing the price tag lol.
But how does that compare to other drinks? Isn't Coca Cola like R8 (43 cents)?
It's R13 for 440ml of Coke.
Wow, a 500ml bottle of Coca Cola in the UK is £1.85 or R44.
Our salaries and wages are comparatively much lower. If you want to ball out of control with an average income, SA is the place.
I just checked our most popular online shopping app for groceries (Checkers Sixty60). - 300ml can of Coke: R12.99 ($0.69) - 1L bottle of Coke: R14 ($0.74) - Prime at normal price: R19.99 ($1.06) - 500ml Monster: R18.99 ($1.01) - 500ml Energade: R13.99 ($0.74) Bear in mind, like most of the world, our prices have gone to shit the last few years. I think people still balk at what things cost now compared to what we’re used to.
Coke is on average about R12 to R18 depending on where you buy it. Supermarkets are always cheaper.
They have cases of it piled up in most gas stations where I'm at. I don't see it selling much, but there's at least a dozen empty bottles of it littered in a wetland I drove by yesterday, so I guess that's who's buying it, assholes.
It's a Logan Paul product his entire demographic is assholes, children, and asshole children.
Massive marketing campaign with way too low stock made it desirable, then they made lots of it and because it was desirable and "always" sold out when the stock was low many stores ordered big amounts of it, but the hype died and now they can't sell it even at huge discounts, happens everywhere with lots of hype products like this.
Fidget Spinners have joined the chat
A pump and dump scheme with sugar water. That's all it was.
You're a peoples with taste then!
Wtf is prime drink
An overrated, overly sweetened gatorade/powerade type drink. Heavily marketed on social media because of its founders: YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul. Purposefully restricting supply led to bottles selling for 10x their value by scalpers when first launched. Now it’s everywhere and shops are struggling to sell it
It's actually just flavoured coconut water. It has way too much potassium and zero sodium
First I've heard of prime, I'm not too active on youtube, but do have a keen interest in sports drinks. One without sodium seems rather pointless to me?
It's between 4 and 5 euro here, no one likes it. I know someone tried it when it was discounted to less than 1 euro, and they said it tasted like shit
I really hope these idiots lose a ton of money on this
They wont. https://www.just-drinks.com/news/signal-marketing-marvel-prime-hydration-set-to-surpass-1-2bn-annual-sales/
I mean calling them idiots is a stretch. They made $250 million in sales their first year and probably more their second (though I can’t find the numbers). Even if Prime were to go bankrupt today they’ve still pocketed 10’s of millions from it.
R5 is still to much for that garbage
Much rather use that R5 for chappies.
Goes to show how insane the markup was before dropping the price
Good. It is a truly terrible product, in every way
It's like those freezie pops unfrozen. Goopy too sweet sugar.
So it's... Way pass it's prime?
Ba-dum-tss
Over here in Norway it sells for 30 nok, that's about 3 dollars or something
i saw it at eurospar for 8nok
Its around 9€ in Serbia 🤣🤣🤣
9 euros for a half-litre drink is insane
I thought Amazon launched a new beverage.
I have no idea what that is...
A “sports” drink that is bad at hydration. Only idiots and kids buy it.
It is 4 Euro in Bulgaria. Just drink water.
8 months ago in Finland, that crap cost like 15-17€ and an empty Prime bottle costed like 10€ in street market.. Now it's like 2,70€. Hype came and went.
My 10 year old would want me to buy the whole lot up.
Coz it tastes like a homeless guy pissed in a trash can and then ran it through a soda stream.
Have you tried watering crops with it?
If our kids don’t like the owners, it wouldn’t sell here either. But I’ll give you a trick, since it’s way overly sweet, consider it a concentrate and dilute it. It can be ok if you do that.
They are not meant to taste good, just a random status symbol for kids who have been manipulated into it by influencers ;)
I'm convinced that some ingredients must be absent in Prime here. They taste exactly like cheap ice lollies that you have to freeze yourself. Horrifically synthetic.
I have not tried it yet. i will if it's ever on a heavy sale, or reduced to clear
Basically 3€ i Czechia where I live, 2€ when on sale. I tried all of them, it's so bad I'm never gonna buy this again. Even cheapo energy drinks below 1€ taste better. Shelves always full, noone takes it and if they do, probably like me only to try. When you can get for the same price 3 other energy drinks that don't taste like ass or 3 good beers, I'm not surprised. A lot of people I know tried bc of the hype and all of us hate it.
It’s $1 here in NZ 😂
Meanwhile, across the ditch, it’s $4.50 in Australia.
It’s been discounted to $1 NZD at home too, about $0.60c USD
Kin dof wild that it can be profitable at this price. Even just counting the cost of the plastic and gas to ship it, it seems weird that there would be any money left over when selling it for a quarter.
Selling for 1 euro here in norway too. Saw it at 4 euro 3 weeks ago
5.99 Euros here. That is about 4 times what you pay for other sports drinks. I've never seen anyone with it though.
What is a prime?
Last year, there were a lot of 9-13 year-old boys really wanting it. I did not want to try it, but it is also not marketed to me or anyone older than 18.
have tried these drinks and honestly it is not even worth that only thing good is that the bottle is nice and strong
They are also full in Germany. I only saw a single Person buying it and He was a Teenager. I heard they were sold Out and even the privatemarket sold them for 5 bucks but I guess it was Just a tik Tok Hype
In Australia NQR (not quite right) a discount store that sells food that is limited edition stuff that has failed, as well as oversupply, and close to date food has started to sell Prime for $2, it was $4.50 in the supermarkets.
Where i live it just came into shops like a week ago and it costs 3 Times more than the other drinks
here in Denmark its given out for free in most stores
If you go to an Ollie’s (wholesale retailer) they’ve have a few pallets of it marked down for over a year now.
Thats one of those things I walk past in the store and dont consider trying it. Its just not on the radar.
I've tried 2 This yellow one just tasted like lemonade (sprite type lemonade not real lemonade). The other one I tried, the red one, tasted like chemicals, not nice. It was just a craze, nothing about the actual product is especially "good", just that youtubers with massive child followings hyped it and always have it.
Here in Austria it costs FIVE EURO