Tonic water shortage (again)

[Tropicalevo]

Sorry - I tried the search action, but I could not find the original thread.

Where can I buy a slab of Schweppes Tonic Water please?

Macro haven't had any for ages and Sanphet does not have any either. Big C and Tesco have been a waste of time for ages on this one.

Anywhere else please?

Anyone driving to Malaysia?

[yorkie100]

Am going to Padang Besar around the 22nd.

Will be visiting the Duty Free. If they have any I will bring some back.

Let me know nearer the time if you still want some.

[samuijimmy]

I just drove by the shop just before Soi 4 (lights in Maenam) when headed toward Nanthon.... almost opposite where the walking street ends...

He hab!.... as he did last time there was a shortage!.....

(it's a little bit difficult parking there, just to warn...especially in truck or car... )

[Tropicalevo]

Am going to Padang Besar around the 22nd.

Will be visiting the Duty Free. If they have any I will bring some back.

Let me know nearer the time if you still want some.

I will do thank you Yorkie

Much appreciated

[nod]

Of course now you can expect a shortage for sure.

Every a post like this goes up it guarantees a shortage for quite a while, with everyone rushing around stripping the shelves of very can they can find.

Even if normal supplies arrive shortly, they will be bought up,thereby creating an even longer shortage.

Nice one !

[Bsd]

I did notice that these cans were different in shape from the normal Schweppes can, narrower, taller, but I am sorry to say that I could not swear that these new-style cans contained the same amount of fluid as before. So, is this the answer to the current dearth of Schweppes canned drinks on the island of Koh Samui, that Schweppes is in the process of changing the shape and the volume of its cans of drinks? Are we in for a shock, I mean a bigger one than just not being able to buy a can of Schweppes Tonic Water?

Both Schweppes and Coke have been changing their cans into the new thin tall style, I checked what was written on the side of the can and both the old and new can say they have the same amount in them. This has been going on over the last couple of months as the old cans ran out. I do have some new cans of tonic water so the change over doesn't seem to be the issue with the shortage. What I can tell you is that wholesale supplies of Schweppes manao soda ran out 2 weeks ago on KP and the best estimate I can get for a new supply is early next month.

[Tropicalevo]

Of course now you can expect a shortage for sure.

Every a post like this goes up it guarantees a shortage for quite a while, with everyone rushing around stripping the shelves of very can they can find.

Even if normal supplies arrive shortly, they will be bought up,thereby creating an even longer shortage.

Nice one !

Good try nod - but wrong.

I started this thread AFTER I had been running all over the island looking for the stuff.

The shelves were bare before the thread started.

and now..........

THE AWESOME POWER OF THAI VISA!!! (it's a sub-thread Rooo - I didn't think that we needed a new one!)

A big thank you to Yorkie100 who recently made a trip to Malaysia and brought back slabs of Tonic.

Through Yorkie's good actions and Thai Visa's open forum along with all of the friendly guys and gals here - wifey now has a month or two's supply of tonic. Thank you. And another big THANK YOU for all of your help in sourcing boxes of red wine. Wifey is happy and my ears are at peace.

Well done everyone

[ricklev]

None at my usual shops in Bangkok either.

[Tropicalevo]

None at my usual shops in Bangkok either.

I was going to 'like ' your post and then I thought 'how can I like that the poor guy has no tonic!!!!'

So - in sympathy. I don't suppose that yorkie is coming to Bangkok anytime soon. Sorry

[samuijimmy]

T. W. alert !

Maenam ......only 6 cases left! Usual shop near the traffic light near Soi 4 (Bophut side)

They brought in 10 cases from Nakon Si Tammerat

Better hurry !

Edited May 7, 2014 by samuijimmy

[evadgib]

Jimmy, You'd have been a 'spook' in a previous life!

[Tropicalevo]

Half a pallet left in Makro this morning.

[samuijimmy]

Half a pallet left in Makro this morning.

Oh really! ..... Tops, no hab!

[samuijimmy]

for those in Maenam, I noticed there is a bigger stack of TW as I drove by today at the shop mentioned above ^

[Cylon]

Its not only a problem in Samui . It keeps running out in Phuket too. so think its a Thailand thing. they tend to wait till they have run out to order more.

[samuijimmy]

Its not only a problem in Samui . It keeps running out in Phuket too. so think its a Thailand thing. they tend to wait till they have run out to order more.

I think more of a supply problem, they probably make in batches.... and switch to making something else....???

I read their Maneo (?) was in short supply in some areas too~ !

They changed the tins to the taller ones .... which don't fit the fridge so well....

[CaptainS]

Saw it in Tops (Central) today.