ASDA shoppers are clearing the shelve of a popular drink made by Coca-Cola after it was drastically reduced in prices.
The supermarket is selling 24 crates of the limited edition fizz for just £3 – just 12p a can.
One eagle-eyed shopper flagged the saving on a bargain lovers Facebook page.
“I thought I was reading it wrong but a 24 crate of Fanta for £3 in Asda this afternoon – a great bargain!” they wrote, sharing a photo of the drinks.
The striped “Beetlejuice” cans first hit shelves ahead of Halloween 2024, with Michael Keaton’s face printed on the front – a tie in with the release of the movie Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
The Fanta is “Haunted Apple” flavour and is bright green.
Despite the hype, not everyone was sold on the drink – with some calling it “shocking”.
“It’s supposedly apple flavour. Though the person who taste tested it and brought it to market clearly either hadn’t tasted an apple in their life, or lost all sense of taste during the multiple rounds of testing,” wrote one.
“It’s not nice at all,” added a second.
But it was a hit with other shoppers, with one writing: “I like it!”
“Well worth a try at that price,” agreed a second.
A third said it was her daughter’s favourite drink.
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It means shoppers can often pick up a bargain. Often these are marked with a yellow sticker.
Asda said there is no set time across all its branches that workers add yellow stickers to products.
However, according to consumer group Which?, branches usually discount items twice a day – once in the morning and again in the evening.
It looks like this cheap deal is in store only as we couldn’t spot the apple Fanta online at Asda.
But stocks can vary so it might be worth calling ahead to save a trip.
You can find your nearest Asda using the store locator tool on the supermarket’s website.
It’s the cheapest we spotted the drink to. On the Coca-Cola website the drink is still priced at £12.99 for 24, working out at 54p per can.
Meanwhile, Coca-Cola last year made a huge change to the original Fanta’s recipe.
The fizzy drinks giant used to sweeten its sugar-free Fanta Orange alternative with just two ingredients – acesulfame K and aspartame.
The brand’s “new and improved” Fanta Zero Sugar soft drink now contains several different sweeteners which are likely to explain the changing flavour.
The new recipe drink is sweetened with cyclamates, acesulfame-K, sucralose, steviol glycosides and neohesperidine DC and no longer contains aspartame.
However, fans of the drink have been left fuming over the change.
Taking to X (formerly Twitter) one Fanta Fan said: “No idea what Coca Cola are up to but the new Fanta Zero is horrible.
“Phenomenal downgrade on the old one.”
Another said: “Coca Cola what have you done to the zero-sugar Fanta in the UK?
“I used to love it, the new so called ‘improved’ version tastes like chemicals!”
“The new Fanta Zero is diabolical and is not fit for human consumption.
“Change back immediately,” said a third Fanta fan.
Shoppers can spot the new from the old, where bottles have a “new irresistible taste” splashed on the front.