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Icehouse Spring Water 600ml Pk/24 Officeworks $6.00

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Icehouse Spring Water 600ml Pk/24 Officeworks $6.00
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jason101 on 10/01/2011 - 19:50 officeworks.com.au (808 clicks)

Like many Ozbargainers I really take objection to paying high prices for bottled water. I found this at my local Officeworks today and thought it must be a localised store promotion - to my surprise it seems its the standard price, and a good one at that.

I bought the same slab at Coles (Gouger Street Adelaide) on the weekend for $9 and in Adelaide generally pay up to $11-12 for a slab of 24 x 500mm no name spring water.

$6.00 including container deposits worth $2.40 in SA makes the water content = $3.60 per slab or 15c Each.

Thumbs up in my book !

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  • Icehouse is bottled at the source from a water reserve that is free of external pollutants.
  • Icehouse Spring Water has the lowest sodium content of all the best selling Australian brands.
  • This water purity delivers great taste along with a guarantee of confidence for the health conscious consumer.
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  • dom on 10/01/2011 - 20:04
    +1

    Same price at Coles atm so it will go back up when the special ends

  • altomic on 10/01/2011 - 20:38
    +2

    wow, a tribute bottled water to one of Australia's greatest rock band.

    they have now "made it".

    • steven107 on 10/01/2011 - 21:18
      +1

      LOL! Well said!!

  • pork chop on 10/01/2011 - 20:56

    same price I paid at my local Coles on the weekend.

    • jason101 on 10/01/2011 - 21:07
      +1

      SA Normally incurs a premium on bottle drinks due to the container deposit - deal may not seem so cheap to those interstate, but is pretty good for SA.

  • outlander on 10/01/2011 - 21:05

    Skip the fluoride and chlorine in one step

    • Seachicken on 11/01/2011 - 01:33

      Flouride is good for your teeth, and safe for consumption (at the levels found in tap war).

      • MHLoppy on 11/01/2011 - 01:38

        And most people agree, but there are a minority who don't agree and to be honest I'm really not sure whether it's good or bad :/
        But regardless, let both sides believe what they want. Unless I see evidence myself, there's too many "well qualified" people on both sides of the argument.

  • John Dough on 10/01/2011 - 21:31
    +10

    Who needs/pays for bottled water??

    Its free out of a tap, and doesn't harm the environment! (as much)

    • voter1 on 10/01/2011 - 21:42
      +8

      i dont want to harm the environment - thats why I only drink beer…..

    • xor on 10/01/2011 - 22:22
      +3

      I used to live in Adelaide, and when the drinking water is being drawn from the lower reaches of the then drought-stricken Murray River, you don't want to drink tap water

      • Ecstatic on 11/01/2011 - 21:35
        +1

        I live in Adelaide. I don't drink tap water.

        It's that bad!

        • diamondtouch1 on 11/01/2011 - 22:29
          -1

          melbourne tap water smells like B.O. (well in my experience)

        • MHLoppy on 12/01/2011 - 23:37

          I live in Melbourne (eastern suburbs) and took a holiday to Mount Gambia a couple years back. I felt like I was covered in a thin layer of slime after showering :P

    • typ3z3r0 on 11/01/2011 - 02:39
      +3

      You're right about it harming the environment. http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/

    • MementoMori on 11/01/2011 - 11:38
      +1

      Absolutely…

      'source from a water reserve that is free of external pollutants'

      There ain't gonna be no water reserves that are free of external pollutants if everyone maintains bad eco habits like drinking bottled water…

      I've been to WA and SA and know why you'd want this… do checkout home filtration and distillation systems. They're not as expensive as people think, and the water will taste just like Mt Franklin.

  • [Deactivated] on 10/01/2011 - 21:57

    Coles is selling for $6 this week so ow is just price matching with coles to avoid furthet 5% discount.2 weeks ago i paid $9 at ow

    • Trance N Dance on 11/01/2011 - 14:22
      -1

      Wow they are tightarses, saving themselves 30cents a pallet…
      Honestly, who goes to OW to buy water?

  • windsurfer-sp on 11/01/2011 - 00:59

    The pallets may still say $9.

    Anyway I bought three of them.

  • worlds_most_wanted on 11/01/2011 - 03:49
    +4

    Boil your tap water & fill up that jug in the fridge.. Cost - 5min of your time.

    • dlakers3peat on 11/01/2011 - 10:32

      not handy if your at the beach or at a park.

      • salem on 11/01/2011 - 10:56

        or after the apocalypse.

        • Domingo on 11/01/2011 - 11:38
          +7

          If Fallout has taught me anything, you want to buy bottled water with metal caps, as those caps are going to become currency.

  • s.a.m on 11/01/2011 - 17:43

    Install a under sink water filter. I haven't bought bottled water in years. It's so good and definitely worth the money.

    • Domingo on 11/01/2011 - 19:04
      -1

      And what do you drink when you're not at home? I usually empty my bottle 2 or 3 times a day and an hours train ride to fill from my water filter at home seems a bit extreme.

      • Trance N Dance on 11/01/2011 - 19:35
        +1

        Bring a 5L bottle with you?

        • s.a.m on 11/01/2011 - 22:13

          @Trance….who do you know that drinks 5L of water a day?? They should win a medal.

        • Trance N Dance on 12/01/2011 - 19:42
          +1

          @s.a.m
          no one just that Domingo was complaining and i merely just said 5L to cover whatever he drinks. :)

        • s.a.m on 13/01/2011 - 00:23

          sorry trance, was a bit slow that day…lol

        • Domingo on 13/01/2011 - 10:08

          Don't get me wrong, I have a royal doulton ceramic urn with a silver nitrate filter and usually use that at home. But at work or uni or any other place I might go, after I empty the bottle I drank at home, im forced back to tap water. Personally I have no problem with tap water, but for those who do, an under sink water filter doesn't completely remove the need to purchase bottled water.

          Also, with the little nasties that live inside water bottles, I'd much rather recycle the bottle and replace it with a fresh one than trying to clean something out and poisoning myself.

      • [Deactivated] on 11/01/2011 - 21:39
        +2

        I'd simply take a bigger bottle, or more smaller bottles. Personally I don't usually empty my 600mL bottle (which I fill from home without any filters, purifiers, etc) when I'm out and about but whenever I do, more often than not I'm close to a tap water source - and no, that does not include toilet taps or the like.

        Assuming a bottle of water is somewhere around the range of $1, that'll be two dollars in my pocket every day if I were to empty my bottle that many times. That's $10 in any given week, and around the ballpark of $500 for bottled water annually.

      • s.a.m on 11/01/2011 - 22:11
        +1

        I take filtered water from home. Refill at work, for the day and before I leave work, for the way home. On top of that I have a family of five, so it still works out to be a much cheaper way to provide filtered water to the family….then there's the huge number of visitors we get regularly…..
        Bottled water is a joke. If the under sink water filter is unaffordable, just stick to tap.

  • bendertiger on 11/01/2011 - 23:15

    Scary thought…did you know the only place in the world that manufacturers stainless steel water bottles is CHINA?

    Anyway, just picked up two trays :) Not the BEST water…but for 42c a litre, WOAH! Brilliant :)

  • Jabba the Hutt on 12/01/2011 - 00:00
    +1

    I buy bottled water solely for convenience when I'm out and about, thanks to the lack of bubblers. So what I'd really like to see is a no-frills brand that vendors could sell in single units for a buck or less. As it stands I kinda feel like an idiot paying $2+ for water.

  • bibendum73au on 12/01/2011 - 17:26

    10 Cartons later and I'm one happy chappy. We use the water for our customers in the Town Cars so this is heaps better than paying $8.99 at the local shops.
    But why did 5 people have to ask me "Are you a bit thirsty?" at OW whilst I was wheeling the trolley with 204 bottles on it to the checkout.

    • Trance N Dance on 12/01/2011 - 19:44

      Cause no one would think to go buy 204 bottles of water from OW?

    • dom on 13/01/2011 - 23:17

      Probably because you were buying 240.

  • ronnknee on 14/01/2011 - 23:55

    $6.00 including container deposits worth $2.40 in SA makes the water content = $3.60 per slab or 15c Each.

    I'm pretty sure that's not how it works in SA. The $2.40 deposit you get back, is actually charged on top of the cost price ie. $8.40.

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