Internet rumpus as convenience store asks customers to add ice to their beverages

[webfact]

Daily News Thai Caption: Consumer rights?

(Sign: When getting beverages please add ice - thank you sincerely)

 

Daily News said there was huge comment online after a consumer advocate posted a picture of a sign at a convenience store in a gas station.

 

The sign asked customers politely to add ice to their drinks at a vending machine in the store.

 

It was semi-identified as being the "Fah Pump" in Chonburi.

 

The message on the post was "we are customers - if we want to fill our glasses up with just drink then we will".

 

Some posters commenting on the story said they had previous experience.

 

One at the same store where they were told by the manager that he was not forcing anyone to put ice in their drinks.

 

It was just a suggestion and entirely up to them. It was to avoid waste.

 

Many netizens thought it was just a ploy to enhance the convenience store's profits.

 

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[Will B Good]

I never have ice added to a drink....out and out con.

[ThailandRyan]

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

was just a suggestion and entirely up to them. It was to avoid waste

Waste of what? Instead of a drink that's half a cup you get a full cup and if from the machine it's cold already.  When I order a soda or drink i ask for the can, or bottle and a cup of ice....no waste there.

[Emdog]

Stores pricing structure is developed in part on what amount of ice to drink ratio typically is. It's not a "scam" or "out and out con". I know some places in USA have drink price for with and price for without ice.

[Mickeymaus]

3 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Waste of what? Instead of a drink that's half a cup you get a full cup and if from the machine it's cold already.  When I order a soda or drink i ask for the can, or bottle and a cup of ice....no waste there.

This is the idea. The machine should not provide it cold already so that you will be motivated to use the ice. I understand the shop owner somehow. He made a calculation with ice. But obviously some costumers are more clever than he thought. 

[JoePai]

But ice this time of year brrrrrrrrr

[thaibeachlovers]

It's an old trick and not just in LOS. Buy a drink at the movies and it's ice to top of cup before any drink goes in.

In 7 11 I always made a show of adding ice, though it was minimal.

[norbra]

I once bought a hot. Coffee from 7 ,it was so hot I took a second empty cup to enable me to carry the drink to the cashier, problem !!

1 drink 1 cup only, cashier advised that the owner checks cups used everyday

Edited January 14, 2023 by norbra

[ezzra]

Yeah right, gas station ice, sure way to get a stomach poisonings and that's if you lucky...

[Celsius]

53 minutes ago, norbra said:

I once bought a hot. Coffee from 7 ,it was so hot I took a second empty cup to enable me to carry the drink to the cashier, problem !!

1 drink 1 cup only, cashier advised that the owner checks cups used everyday

 

Yes. And Subway and some other food chains have the same policy. As a matter of fact if you buy a bottled or canned drink at Subway, you can not ask for a cup.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, Will B Good said:

I never have ice added to a drink....out and out con.

Enough water in my Chang already

[mikeymike100]

3 hours ago, Celsius said:

 

Yes. And Subway and some other food chains have the same policy. As a matter of fact if you buy a bottled or canned drink at Subway, you can not ask for a cup.

I'm sure you can ask for a cup? You may not get one though?????

[LivingNThailand]

On 1/14/2023 at 11:25 AM, Emdog said:

I know some places in USA have drink price for with and price for without ice.

You order an iced americano and it is always more expensive than a hot americano.  Everywhere in Thailand

[brianthainess]

On 1/14/2023 at 11:25 AM, Emdog said:

Stores pricing structure is developed in part on what amount of ice to drink ratio typically is. It's not a "scam" or "out and out con". I know some places in USA have drink price for with and price for without ice.

Yawn.

[whiteman]

why drink this fizzy <deleted> in the first place

[herfiehandbag]

19 hours ago, LivingNThailand said:

You order an iced americano and it is always more expensive than a hot americano.  Everywhere in Thailand

That will be because they first make a hot americano and then add and "blitz" with ice to chill it. You are, not entirely unreasonably, paying for the extra process.

[ThailandRyan]

6 minutes ago, whiteman said:

why drink this fizzy <deleted> in the first place

Why not? Tonic Water, Club Soda not bad for you if you find ones with low sodium content. Of course all junk food is potentially bad for one to drink or eat.  

[LivingNThailand]

5 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

That will be because they first make a hot americano and then add and "blitz" with ice to chill it. You are, not entirely unreasonably, paying for the extra process.

I wasn't complaining, I was just making a comment when someone else said below.  Higher price for ice.  Why not.

I know some places in USA have drink price for with and price for without ice

[Orinoco]

A little sign at a gas station,  up sets the mighty fearsome Thai's

What a load of school girls.