Tesco axe Ribena etc

[Inseriousity.]

There's been quite a lot in the news about sugary foods and drink and health campaigners have argued for a Sugar Tax. This would be to help improve obesity. Tesco have announced plans to axe sugary children's drinks such as Ribena and Capri-Sun and replace them with a sugar-free alternative. It's been mocked on the Internet because they still plan to sell things like Coca-Cola. What do you guys think?

Click here for the story. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3175463/Sugary-Ribena-axed-Tesco-supermarket-removes-raft-popular-children-s-drinks.html?ito=social-facebook)

Personally, whenever I've seen these stories of a Sugar Tax, I've thought it was a bit silly. A ban seems a bit over the top but then it's not like no-one will ever be unable to buy it in the hundreds of other stores.

[David]

wait how much sugar is in capri sun
been drinking those by hundreds lately

oops

[MKR&*42]

yeah saw this the other day, quite surprised really.

whilst it is a good move I've gotta say their "sweet free checkouts" that they promote are absolutely ridiculous where I am... one side of the stand is literally just 4 rows filled with water bottles of the same brand, they could be a tiny bit more creative and not try and basically give the message that it's "water or nothing".

[lemons]

lol don't really see the point, what about all the other products in their stores full of sugar??

good publicity for ribena

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wait how much sugar is in capri sun
been drinking those by hundreds lately

oops

20g

22% of what you should have daily according to their website!

[Empired]

No point at all if they're still selling energy and fizzy drinks. I love squash though I'll be so sad if sainsbury's axes their own brand summer fruits squash

[Hannah]

I don't see them axing cola any time soon. :rolleyes:

[xxMATTGxx]

Is it to encourage parents not to buy them and put them in lunchboxes mainly aimed at kids in lower school years? As that's what these drinks would be ideal for.

[Matt]

Would the sugar tax see consumers, the supermarkets or the actual companies paying more?

[peteyt]

This is stupid and will backfire -
Should Tesco stop selling alcohol to prevent alcoholics and cigarettes to prevent smokers/ and smoke related cancer? Do they think the people who want these drinks will buy the alternatives rather than going to somewhere else with more choice?

There's nothing wrong with promoting healthier options, but by removing the choice they risk a massive backlash.

At the end of the day no one is forcing parents to buy fizzy drinks and there's lots of things and people out there trying to educate on healthy lifestyles. Why should other people suffer because parents give into their children too easily?

[GoldenMerc]

Most likely going to replace it with their brand product I assume

[AgnesIO]

I hope they remove all of their everyday value confectionary etc - the only reason any of that deal is so cheap is that they remove ingredients and replace it with sugar...

[MotorStefan95]

I really don't see the sense in it. They shouldn't ban these things, if people want to buy them, then let them buy them, and a sugar tax is a bad idea too, if anything it will work out like the fat tax they introduced in Denmark, which resulted in people stock piling food with fat content, which then meant people were eating out of date food and becoming sick. Plus, soft drinks are rising in price enough already and I'm not resorting to water, I need variety in my drinks.

Instead of sugar tax, they should not sell high sugar content products to under 12s, and maybe do a background check on people buying loads of sugary food and drinks to make sure they aren't addicted, but I'm not sure how that last point would work out realistically.

Overall, my belief is that thye shouldn't mess with things like this, and let people buy what they want, its not like they have an alcohol tax or tobacco tax.