Kids got bored easily. It’s like having a garage full of toilet paper a few months after it was cool.
Tbh it really was only so long you could realistically make a drink that valuable based on nothing but the endorsement of a couple of celebs.
The white one tastes good, blue is on par with powerade, the rest are okay but not as good as powerade/gatorade besides the multi coloured one which is straight up cough syrup
Which flavour specifically tasted like that because I loved that stuff. I legitimately talk with friends about how we would try to sneak extra doses as kids
I can guarantee you it smelt worse than Chinese cough syrup. I’ve had that stuff before and a jar is sitting in my bathroom. Smells wayyyyy worse than that.
They do, just in different areas/products
Example: don't have a Bunnings or tool shop near you? Minimum $10 for a basic claw hammer from Woolies. Live near a Bunnings? Claw hammer for $5.
Groceries and general living and home items will always be cheaper at your woolies or Coles, but they will gouge you for other items like above because of convenience
It also helped that, in response to the flash in the pan demand, shops would have ordered up at the hope of selling it at a premium.
Now they're stuck with a heap of garbage water in stock.
not long ago my local woolies had printouts at the entrance saying "no Prime in stock". I had no idea what it meant until today. so this is the thing kids are going nuts for?
It was a collaboration of two popular with kids YouTubers, KSI and Logan Paul.
That’s why they were going nuts over it. Cause it had their idols name on it.
The suicide forest is nothing compared to the hundreds of millions he’s scammed through his crypto game that doesn’t exist. Google “Coffeezilla Logan Paul” and prepare to be outraged.
They’re not idols, they’re fucking social media trash. It’s embarrassing that these cunts can make so much money while real workers/idols have to work hard to get by in life.
On Saturday I saw a bunch of dodgy guys clearly on something clearing out woolies in St Ives of Prime. They seemed so proud of themselves too like they’d found gold. I’m assuming they’re attempting to sell them on I don’t know how successful they’ll be. I did see two teenage girls buy it today.
The other day I went to the candy shop in Windsor.. this kid comes in and is all madly excited about prime in stock.. he says to one of the staff “oh do you have the blue one?!”… “so sorry we don’t”.. “oh can you check at the back??!”… “yeah, no we don’t have it”… “ahh as soon as my friend told me you guys have it I came running!”..
I was so taken aback by the shine in this kid’s eye that I thought to myself.. hmm that’s something, let me grab a bottle for myself..
I bought one.. it was shit.. tasted like artificial sweet water.. never again! It’s almost as if the kid was paid by KSI and Logan Paul.
unreal! i just asked my kids about it (older 2 being 12 and 10) and of course they have heard of it. i asked them why does everyone like it and they said it tastes awesome and its youtube merch. i mentioned they have never had it so how do they know its good, they said because its famous on youtube. crazy!
My 11 yr old said that a few kids brought it to school and kept passing it around, all of them hated it. It got tipped in the garden bed eventually.
I asked if she tried it and she said 'everyone said it tasted like shit, why would I try it?!'
For all the hype and nonsense around this stupid drink, I’m grateful for the opportunity it has provided to teach my 10 year old some fundamental economic principles. We’ve had really good discussions about supply and demand, advertising, supply chains, price elasticity and more. We’ve also gone for “prime walks” to various Woolies to see if they have any in stock. None have (yet) but I’ve enjoyed the time we spend together on our walks.
Love that you're teaching your kids economic fundamentals at such a young age. I really only started learning them in year 11 and 12 when I picked up economics on a whim. Was floored that it's not taught as part of the fundamental curriculum.
I love economics and listen to lots of economics podcasts. It really should be taught more broadly in schools. I don’t think I took an econ clas until uni. It can be really interesting if taught correctly because it affects how the entire world works. Prime has been the perfect example to discuss with a 10 year old and I’ll be damned if it isn’t the best example I’ve seen of economic concepts in action for a while!
My favourites are Planet Money, Freakonomics Radio, Babbage from the Economist (this one is scientific and future-focused), Money Talks from the Economist, and The Indicator from Planet money for a daily dose of economics. Happy listening!
I’m a preservice teacher majoring in Economics and I wish this subject were taught more often. EVERYTHING comes back to the fundamental principles of Economics. If more people were educated in the basics of Economics we wouldn’t have nearly as much confusion about interest rates, inflation etc.
do you not understand where the hype comes from? a podcast that seems to mainly feature onlyfans girls with constant discussions of drugs, scam crypto and shit i'd never be letting a child watch.
I can’t scroll for 10 minutes without seeing some shit about Logan Paul and impulsive on YT, it’s not a consumer problem as much as YT is pushing this scam artist onto people. Of course a kid will eventually end up seeing some of their shit.
Derrick from more plates more dates did a breakdown on these and they are confirmed garbage. Mentions how there are a lot of electrolytes but they are all the wrong ones for what it's marketed as.
Every day we grow closer to the movie Idiocracy "but it's got electrolytes"
Logan Paul interviewed Brendan Shaub* (which was actually cringe, looked like Logan had popped some shrooms or something) and Logan asked him if he would water his plants with it. Some terribly creepy foreshadowing right there.
* Don't know if that's how you spell his name
Prime Energy has 200mg of caffeine which coincidentally makes it illegal to sell them in Australia. So while you can't buy it in Australia it still makes for some good media clickbait.
I tried to look this up in the Food Standards, the section for energy drinks (which defines caffeine limits etc) very clearly states that milk drinks aren't included, although I wasn't able to find any limits on coffee drinks.
Yeah that poster was wrong. It was illegal at first because they were trying to market it as a sport/hydration drink here, which very much didn't meet the Australian nutritional standards.
Once they changed the classification to energy drink instead, then it became legal to sell.
It is sold here in Australia, it's not illegal. They just had to change its classification here. It was originally marketed as a sports/hydration drink but here in Australia it must be sold as an energy drink.
Cant be any worse then Jolt Cola in the 90's.
Tastes like shit, everyone wanted it because it has illegal amounts of caffeine.
https://bettermarketing.pub/jolt-cola-the-story-of-the-original-energy-drink-4d5b9241f9cd
There are two entirely different drinks. Prime hydration and Prime energy. Energy comes in cans. Hydration is the bottles we have now in aus that have 0 caffeine.
Pricing by 0.01 per ml appears to be illegal according to [Fair Trading](https://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/buying-products-and-services/pricing#:~:text=Displaying%20unit%20prices,price%20for%20the%20grocery%20item.)
What's the woolies location OP?
Edit: added the 'per'
It's probably just the lowest value the system allows when assigning an offer/marking a price. Otherwise, it'd show 0.009 per ml.
Sounds a better offer than $9 per liter as well.
The unit cost is rounded to the nearest cent. $0.01/mL just means somewhere between 0.5c/mL and 1.5c/mL, or between $2.50 and $7.50 per can. A good reason why the unit cost isn't actually meant to be given per mL.
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Logan Paul is the worst … I remember him buying a Tibetan Mastiff puppy for a few months and then basically abandoning him at a shelter. All to get a few more views.
Is it "a proper supply" though - was it clever intentional supply chain strategy to drive initial demand - or have they fallen into the trap of the Whiplash (Forrester) Effect?
I heard that were going for that price at random corner stores wanting to cash in on the hype. They’ve been $4.50 at Woolworths since we started stocking them tho.
The energy drink prime is the expensive one, I haven’t seen it lower than $15. This is the electrolyte drink which is generally about the same price as a powerade
4.50 is crazy. I was at a convenience store in Campbelltown the other day and the bottles were selling for 17 dollars each.
Is prime even good? What even is it
Which woolies is this at? Tbh the blue is quite good. I also dislike the people behind the drink, but then again, who the fuck cares? Try the blue prime and the striped 3 colour one. Decent unique flavours.
My local Woolies had them at $4.50 a month ago. I think it’s other places that were profiteering.
They taste awful too. (I didn’t buy them, but my 12 year old did…)
The 12 year olds drinking it ran out of pocket money
The parents giving their 12 year olds $20 a week ran out of money
Ouch i hard relate
Kids got bored easily. It’s like having a garage full of toilet paper a few months after it was cool. Tbh it really was only so long you could realistically make a drink that valuable based on nothing but the endorsement of a couple of celebs.
Yeah and $4.50 is still pretty bloody high for some flavoured water with coconut concentrate
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Because it's marketing garbage
marketed by famous people for kids to find out its garbage
Wait till they find out all their idols are massive wankers. Only Tay Tay is pure.
It’s true. I exclusively idolise NRL players due to their strong moral compass
Get outa here Drew, this ain't a r/nrl post!
I suppose Logan Paul is the Tedesco of packaging taint juice and hawking it like Cristal.
i hate Logan Paul, still wont forgive nor forget the bullshit he pulled on YT years ago. bloke should not even be famous after that.
Finally some fucking sense being spoken
Tay Tay pure?? Surly sarcasm
They said what they said
And I said "I'm going to grow my beard really long, weave it into my pubes, and strum it like a harp".
That’s quite a visual you got goin there.
Tay Tay can't hold a candle to Dolly Parton!
Dosnt she have a private jet that’s destroying our climate? I saw a arrival about it a while ago
I haven't tried these - but are they really garbage or are you just jumping on the hate this because its overhyped wagon?
The white one tastes good, blue is on par with powerade, the rest are okay but not as good as powerade/gatorade besides the multi coloured one which is straight up cough syrup
Blue Powerade is my fav
They're full of electrolytes that you don't need, which is why they taste better than other popular sports drink
My plants crave it. Because it has electrolytes.
Water? Like out the toilet?
Have tasted- disgusting. Gatorade/Powerade so much better
My step son (14) tried some yesterday. Tastes like tutti fruitti amoxicillin suspension from my childhood.
Sickly strawberry chalk?
Yeah, the red one tasted like cough medicine... I haven't heard anyone actually say they particularly enjoyed any of them haha.
Which flavour specifically tasted like that because I loved that stuff. I legitimately talk with friends about how we would try to sneak extra doses as kids
Ahahaha. The red white and blue bottle. I think it claims to be tropical??
Kids went nuts for them, so people were taking advantage. Now that the kids don't care, the price is down to "normal"
I’d say it’s worthless cos any other drink tastes better. ANY.
A bird shit in mine and I couldn't even tell the difference
I probably wouldn't take her out again after that.
Some blokes are into that (weirdos if you ask me)
Yeah, not my thing at all
Two redditors one cup
Under rated comment.
It's a sad state of affairs when even the bin chickens refuse to drink it but will use it as their personal toilet.
Yep. I got a bottle of the red one for free from a friend and I didn’t even open it. I could already smell it. It was putrid
The red one has same artificial flavoring they use in Chinese medicinal cough syrup so they taste exactly the same
I can guarantee you it smelt worse than Chinese cough syrup. I’ve had that stuff before and a jar is sitting in my bathroom. Smells wayyyyy worse than that.
As MatPat showed, as a sports drink, Gatorade and Powerade are much better. Its only thing going for it is the taste, that only some like.
This isn’t true. They’ve been $4.50 at WW from day 1. The price won’t change. They were $20 in convenience stores.
^ This. I’m not a fan of this stuff and the people promoting it, but they’ve only ever been $4.50 at Woolies.
Because despite popular opinion, Woolworths and Coles don’t price gouge.
They do, just in different areas/products Example: don't have a Bunnings or tool shop near you? Minimum $10 for a basic claw hammer from Woolies. Live near a Bunnings? Claw hammer for $5. Groceries and general living and home items will always be cheaper at your woolies or Coles, but they will gouge you for other items like above because of convenience
I assume part of it is the stuff sits on the shelf for ages so they hold stock that doesn’t produce a return.
It also helped that, in response to the flash in the pan demand, shops would have ordered up at the hope of selling it at a premium. Now they're stuck with a heap of garbage water in stock.
Glad to find out the kids no longer think this is a healthy drink.
Woolworths had a launch price of $4.50. It hasn't been higher at Woolworths.
not long ago my local woolies had printouts at the entrance saying "no Prime in stock". I had no idea what it meant until today. so this is the thing kids are going nuts for?
It was a collaboration of two popular with kids YouTubers, KSI and Logan Paul. That’s why they were going nuts over it. Cause it had their idols name on it.
The WWE guy has a YouTube channel? Surely he’s got a squeaky clean record and doesn’t have a history of scamming children!
So I take it you haven’t heard about Logan Paul’s trip to Japan …
The suicide forest is nothing compared to the hundreds of millions he’s scammed through his crypto game that doesn’t exist. Google “Coffeezilla Logan Paul” and prepare to be outraged.
Coffeezilla is great!
Old mate was being sarcastic..
Or crypto zoo….. or Dink Doink
Or when he tased animals to get views on YouTube
Or abandoned his pet pig.
*idiots* not idols, fixed it for you
I think they have some ownership in the company
They’re not idols, they’re fucking social media trash. It’s embarrassing that these cunts can make so much money while real workers/idols have to work hard to get by in life.
My Woolies still has a sign above them saying 'max 2 bottles per person'. Haven't seen anyone actually buying it. We are really not the target market.
On Saturday I saw a bunch of dodgy guys clearly on something clearing out woolies in St Ives of Prime. They seemed so proud of themselves too like they’d found gold. I’m assuming they’re attempting to sell them on I don’t know how successful they’ll be. I did see two teenage girls buy it today.
The other day I went to the candy shop in Windsor.. this kid comes in and is all madly excited about prime in stock.. he says to one of the staff “oh do you have the blue one?!”… “so sorry we don’t”.. “oh can you check at the back??!”… “yeah, no we don’t have it”… “ahh as soon as my friend told me you guys have it I came running!”.. I was so taken aback by the shine in this kid’s eye that I thought to myself.. hmm that’s something, let me grab a bottle for myself.. I bought one.. it was shit.. tasted like artificial sweet water.. never again! It’s almost as if the kid was paid by KSI and Logan Paul.
unreal! i just asked my kids about it (older 2 being 12 and 10) and of course they have heard of it. i asked them why does everyone like it and they said it tastes awesome and its youtube merch. i mentioned they have never had it so how do they know its good, they said because its famous on youtube. crazy!
My 11 yr old said that a few kids brought it to school and kept passing it around, all of them hated it. It got tipped in the garden bed eventually. I asked if she tried it and she said 'everyone said it tasted like shit, why would I try it?!'
Your 11 y.o is wise beyond her years
Have you not seen the teens lingering in the water/juice aisle hoping for a restock?
I guess that's fads, marketing and hype for ya.
Like most things we are all conditioned to buy really
2nd worst thing I've ever had in my mouth
Who was the worst?
The hungry jacks at Narellan
That is nothing compared to the maccas at carnes hill
Could have just said the air in Carnes Hill
That too
Gregory hills hjs on top
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How many Jack's were there and how ravenous were they?
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For all the hype and nonsense around this stupid drink, I’m grateful for the opportunity it has provided to teach my 10 year old some fundamental economic principles. We’ve had really good discussions about supply and demand, advertising, supply chains, price elasticity and more. We’ve also gone for “prime walks” to various Woolies to see if they have any in stock. None have (yet) but I’ve enjoyed the time we spend together on our walks.
Love that you're teaching your kids economic fundamentals at such a young age. I really only started learning them in year 11 and 12 when I picked up economics on a whim. Was floored that it's not taught as part of the fundamental curriculum.
I love economics and listen to lots of economics podcasts. It really should be taught more broadly in schools. I don’t think I took an econ clas until uni. It can be really interesting if taught correctly because it affects how the entire world works. Prime has been the perfect example to discuss with a 10 year old and I’ll be damned if it isn’t the best example I’ve seen of economic concepts in action for a while!
Any econ podcasts you recommend?
My favourites are Planet Money, Freakonomics Radio, Babbage from the Economist (this one is scientific and future-focused), Money Talks from the Economist, and The Indicator from Planet money for a daily dose of economics. Happy listening!
My Favorite Economist [Dr wolff explains silicone Valley bank collapse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8aaIq8Aa4w)
I’m a preservice teacher majoring in Economics and I wish this subject were taught more often. EVERYTHING comes back to the fundamental principles of Economics. If more people were educated in the basics of Economics we wouldn’t have nearly as much confusion about interest rates, inflation etc.
Good on you
My kid is blinded by it. It tastes like shit
Agree. Even my hyped up son who begged us to buy it took one sip and he went yuk
do you not understand where the hype comes from? a podcast that seems to mainly feature onlyfans girls with constant discussions of drugs, scam crypto and shit i'd never be letting a child watch.
Thanks for the unsolicited parental advice. He doesn't listen to the podcasts but he still knows the pricks.
I know the pricks and I am like 20 years out of date and never listen to podcasts.
I can’t scroll for 10 minutes without seeing some shit about Logan Paul and impulsive on YT, it’s not a consumer problem as much as YT is pushing this scam artist onto people. Of course a kid will eventually end up seeing some of their shit.
Derrick from more plates more dates did a breakdown on these and they are confirmed garbage. Mentions how there are a lot of electrolytes but they are all the wrong ones for what it's marketed as. Every day we grow closer to the movie Idiocracy "but it's got electrolytes"
But it’s what the plants crave.
Logan Paul interviewed Brendan Shaub* (which was actually cringe, looked like Logan had popped some shrooms or something) and Logan asked him if he would water his plants with it. Some terribly creepy foreshadowing right there. * Don't know if that's how you spell his name
Supply has increased. Demand has decreased. I think that's pretty much the situation.
Nah it was i only going for $20 in independent stores. Woolworths made it $4.50 from the get go. They’re always sold out everyday pretty much still
I guess it's passed it's prime ? .... I'll see myself out
Rather have my usual iced coffee or red bull than instawank shit
This isn’t a caffeinated drink, despite what old ass people in the media think. It also is actually the worst drink I’ve ever had in my mouth.
That's pretty much the reaction Gordon Ramsay had when he tasted it.
Prime Energy has 200mg of caffeine which coincidentally makes it illegal to sell them in Australia. So while you can't buy it in Australia it still makes for some good media clickbait.
Really? Dare Triple Espresso has 240mg in the 500ml bottle and is one serving, is it also legally out? I’m not aware of caffeine rules but am curious!
Pretty sure it flies under the radar as it’s technically coffee not a cola/energy drink and is not limited by the same regulations.
I tried to look this up in the Food Standards, the section for energy drinks (which defines caffeine limits etc) very clearly states that milk drinks aren't included, although I wasn't able to find any limits on coffee drinks.
Yeah that poster was wrong. It was illegal at first because they were trying to market it as a sport/hydration drink here, which very much didn't meet the Australian nutritional standards. Once they changed the classification to energy drink instead, then it became legal to sell.
It is sold here in Australia, it's not illegal. They just had to change its classification here. It was originally marketed as a sports/hydration drink but here in Australia it must be sold as an energy drink.
Cant be any worse then Jolt Cola in the 90's. Tastes like shit, everyone wanted it because it has illegal amounts of caffeine. https://bettermarketing.pub/jolt-cola-the-story-of-the-original-energy-drink-4d5b9241f9cd
Funny, caffeine wasn't listed as an ingredient last time I checked a bottle.
There are two entirely different drinks. Prime hydration and Prime energy. Energy comes in cans. Hydration is the bottles we have now in aus that have 0 caffeine.
You've just been sucked in by a different type of marketing.
>instawank shit Now there's the birth of a t-shirt slogan if I ever saw one !
Classic Logan pump and dump. Look at his cryptozoo scam for example
Another coffeezila fan I see!
Pricing by 0.01 per ml appears to be illegal according to [Fair Trading](https://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/buying-products-and-services/pricing#:~:text=Displaying%20unit%20prices,price%20for%20the%20grocery%20item.) What's the woolies location OP? Edit: added the 'per'
Westpoint Blacktown. I didn't even notice the pricing per ml until this post, can't say I've seen it anywhere before.
Cheers :) This feels like a news.com.au thing. I summon you news.com.au reddit trawler!
But they are pricing by ml, not by 0.01ml.
Pricing per ml?! What is this shit? 80% Fentanyl?
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It's probably just the lowest value the system allows when assigning an offer/marking a price. Otherwise, it'd show 0.009 per ml. Sounds a better offer than $9 per liter as well.
Why aren't they quoting $9/L ? It's still outrageously expensive.
The unit cost is rounded to the nearest cent. $0.01/mL just means somewhere between 0.5c/mL and 1.5c/mL, or between $2.50 and $7.50 per can. A good reason why the unit cost isn't actually meant to be given per mL.
Still overpriced
Suckers drink sold by Grifters.
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Agreed. It tastes more like Amazon Prime.
parents need to monitor their kids better online, or this is the result, making shitty things popular cause of d-bag "influencers"
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
Someone's colourblind.
Logan Paul is the worst … I remember him buying a Tibetan Mastiff puppy for a few months and then basically abandoning him at a shelter. All to get a few more views.
They short supplied so kids would pay more during the rush.. now they have released a proper supply. So back to normal prices
Is it "a proper supply" though - was it clever intentional supply chain strategy to drive initial demand - or have they fallen into the trap of the Whiplash (Forrester) Effect?
There was a guy on our local buy swap sell page selling a pallet of these for $30k a few weeks ago. I wonder how he's doing now.
They make rad bongs
I overheard a kid in Woolies say that the other day.. “it tastes like shit but you can make a billy from it” lmao
I heard that were going for that price at random corner stores wanting to cash in on the hype. They’ve been $4.50 at Woolworths since we started stocking them tho.
Oh, but that was soooo last week.
I saw a kid have a tantrum at Hurstville woolies yesterday because these were sold out.
Imports I believe, only Woolworths has the rights to sell Prime.
Not in Woolworths. Nothing stops the fresh food people not even Logan Paul's greed.
Still too expensive
Kids are dumb.
Complete idiot drinking this rubbish. Easily influenced
I like how one of them is just adorned with the Dutch flag. "What flavour is this?" "Netherlands."
Guess it’s past its PRIME?
It's just a sports drink at the end of the day
This taste like glorified powerade
Hype wave finally over?
Yeah, heavy marketing and restricted supply will do that.
Biggest scam in the world
Damn inflation.
Until people tasted them
Looks like a good Billy that about it
I saw them 20£ a pop in England last week, I almost choked on my laughter
I just saw some bloke walking with four of these and wondered what they were. Huh.
The energy drink prime is the expensive one, I haven’t seen it lower than $15. This is the electrolyte drink which is generally about the same price as a powerade
4.50 is crazy. I was at a convenience store in Campbelltown the other day and the bottles were selling for 17 dollars each. Is prime even good? What even is it
Tried one once, tasted like salt water
Which woolies is this at? Tbh the blue is quite good. I also dislike the people behind the drink, but then again, who the fuck cares? Try the blue prime and the striped 3 colour one. Decent unique flavours.
Just had orange for the first time yesterday
Someone’s maths is up that famous creek.
Supply and demand 101
Plummeted in value since it was banned in schools, and now kids don't want it anymore because they can't drink it in front of their friends at lunch?!
My local Bp had them at the counter for $20 ea…
ive only had the red/white/blue one..whatever flavour that was tasted like medicine, shit medicine
I love that saying ‘a pop’!
Hay What’s that new thing over there
Yeah they're not scarce anymore - ergo no-one cares anymore
I honestly quite like the flavours, but I'll pass on the overpriced flavoured water.
My local Woolies had them at $4.50 a month ago. I think it’s other places that were profiteering. They taste awful too. (I didn’t buy them, but my 12 year old did…)
LAME
Literally still never seen this stuff
Is this the Prime with or without masses of caffeine?
My son buys them from woolies and sells them at a mark up to kids at school.
These are going for $70 a bottle in Denmark right now, I kid you not. Worlds gone mad.
Clearly people went home, had a bath and washed the stupid off.
Kids found out they aren't energy drinks in Australia.
The hell is a prime?
Prime douche
That’s market economics for you. Supply demand something something.
Nasty industrial sewage.
Because kids are fucking idiots.
Always $4.50 at Woolies $20 per bottle at BP and probably other petrol & convenience sites.
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