Tap water marked up 2,500 per cent

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....fusing-customers.html

Now why does this not surprise me in our 'rip-off' Britain?

[Sqad]

When in the UK we would drink "filtered tap water" absorbing the expense of maintenance setting up costs.

Mrs sqad never liked the taste of "tap water" which had never been filtered.

If Tesco's can convince the British public to drink filtered tap water and sell it to them, with total ease at 2,500% mark up, then good luck to them.

[Sheenamf]

I suppose if people are daft enought to buy it that's their choice

[Mick-Talbot]

Have you lived anywhere else other than 'rip of britain' ?

[dave50]

Dont blame the supermarkets. If the general public are stupid and gullible enough to insist on buying bottled water because they think it's better rather than drink water out of the tap then I have no sympathy.

[sir.prize]

So . . '' its origin is French, but it is bottled in the UK – I think somewhere in the West Midlands.''

And where is it stored between France and the Midlands?

[SIRandyraven]

When we are our second home in Cornwall, we buy the cheap water in Tecso.
17p or 20p ...very cheap.
The Cornish tap water upsets my stomach for some reason.
Ok at home in Hampshire.
Hope the Daily Hate article don't stop the retailers from stocking it.

[EcclesCake]

I'm not sure I can see why it is a rip off. It doesn't seem to be making any kind of false claim and I'm not aware of anyone having a gun put to their head to make them buy it.

The reasons people buy bottled water are many and varied and at 17p a bottle it seems a good deal for something that has to be bottled and transported to the stores.

[hc4361]

I wonder how much drinking water is in bottles around the world at this very moment...

[mikey4444]

More money than sense it would seem to me.

[anotheoldgit]

I can foresee that in the distant future, drinking water as we know it will no longer be available through our taps, we will only get sub-standard water for bathing and other cleaning tasks, then we will all be forced to buy bottled water.

[spotit3]

Amazing how our parents generation managed with just tap water, that's if they were even lucky enough to have running water in the house.

[mike11111]

I can think of no fitter response to this news other than that of Del Boy.

"Lubbly jubbly Rodders, get the van out!"

[emmie]

people are not to know the stuff is out the tap, so that is fraud.

[emmie]

as to the berk, i forget who, no one on this site, said that water was free is living in cloud cuckoo land.

[dzug2]

I really don't see what's 'rip off' about it. What the markup is I've no idea - but it's only 2500% if you assume it costs nothing to filter it, bottle it and distribute it.

Perhaps it serves as a warning of how much packaging (often seen as 'free') actually does cost

[emmie]

won't the water companies be interested in this?