Nestle water 24*500ml $2.47

[dryang]

at zellers, today only. and it is from hope, BC, tastes way better than those from aberfole, ON.

[Entrepreneur_dujour]

At no Frills this week, for an extra $0.50, you get 11 more bottles of water. It's not Nestle, but Real Canadian is good too.

There's a limit of 3 cases per family.

[rdoherty]

Wow.. that sure is a lot of plastic bottles! :rolleyes:

[njneer]

Saw people coming out of Zellers this morning (Coquitlam BC) with trolleys full of cases of Nestle water. What a waste (plastic, energy to produce bottles, transport water etc). Either they are small retailers turning around and selling cold bottles to hot suckers for $1-2 or they are just the kind of people that don't drink tap (or filtered tap) water anymore. The tap water out here tastes great. I blame the TV shows for starting and promoting this unnecessary habit.

[jdub]

buy a Nalgene bottle and reuse it!

[boo4842]

Saw people coming out of Zellers this morning (Coquitlam BC) with trolleys full of cases of Nestle water. What a waste (plastic, energy to produce bottles, transport water etc). Either they are small retailers turning around and selling cold bottles to hot suckers for $1-2 or they are just the kind of people that don't drink tap (or filtered tap) water anymore. The tap water out here tastes great. I blame the TV shows for starting and promoting this unnecessary habit.

I blame the half a dozen people that DIED in Walkerton because they drank the 'great tasting' tap water that they believed to be safe for starting the trend around here.

[picturethismister]

:| Is this for BC only or nationwide? Anyone confirm availability in the GTA?

[1ply]

:| Is this for BC only or nationwide? Anyone confirm availability in the GTA?

If you have a Zellers store - you have the water. I just bought a few today (Kitchener).

[Truemana]

I blame the half a dozen people that DIED in Walkerton because they drank the 'great tasting' tap water that they believed to be safe for starting the trend around here.

Too bad people in third world countries don't have the luxuries of only 7 people dieing from tap water over 50 years. Give me a break, the water in this country is second to none. I've lived in two municipalities that issued severe water advisories (Van city and Ladysmith) and that hasn't changed my drinking habits. I'll drink bottled if it's there, but the tap is free.

This is, however, an amazing deal on bottled water.

[82]

just make sure you put them in the blue box.

Wow.. that sure is a lot of plastic bottles! :rolleyes:

[BestOffer]

Saw people coming out of Zellers this morning (Coquitlam BC) with trolleys full of cases of Nestle water. What a waste (plastic, energy to produce bottles, transport water etc). Either they are small retailers turning around and selling cold bottles to hot suckers for $1-2 or they are just the kind of people that don't drink tap (or filtered tap) water anymore. The tap water out here tastes great. I blame the TV shows for starting and promoting this unnecessary habit.

whats wrong with the ppl making money off these cheap water? that is how small businesses work, if u have a rest. or a corner store u would have done the same thing...is greater profit margin

[bubble.tea]

I noticed this as well. Nestle seems to be the most popularly found brand around...how ironic that I've always found it to have a particular subtle hint of a peculiar taste-unlike ALL other brands.

It's weird., to their credit I've noticed that the flavour has diminished quite a bit from the initial batches of bottles from a couple years ago...but I still taste it.

Yes I'm weird :D. Bite me.

buy a Nalgene bottle and reuse it!
and make sure NEVER to buy a bottle scrub brush, to never rinse out the bottle., to never wash it even with a weekly (shudderz....) hot water shower..hehe. Shucks some people just don't know anything about bacterial colonies.

[basiclogic]

Walmart at warden / eglington has it for 2.37 - 24 case of nestle

[Kwirky]

Thanks OP, picked up some myself.

While I was there, I also noticed a lot of clearance stuff was discounted... printers by 25%, computer accessories, automotive, and furniture by 50%. Probably more, that's just what I spotted.

[njneer]

whats wrong with the ppl making money off these cheap water? that is how small businesses work, if u have a rest. or a corner store u would have done the same thing...is greater profit margin

Absolutely nothing, small business have a hard time making money these days so any means to increase their profit margins is good. My point was about the consumption of water in such a wasteful way when as a society we have already spent hundreds of millions of $ in building a safe water delivery system. The energy wasted in producing the bottles, filtering the water, bottling it, transporting it, cooling it again at home, collecting the trash, recycling it (perhaps) when cold clean water is available from our taps is silly. Don't get me wrong, I've bought cases once or twice before when going on holidays. I tend to reuse the bottles a few times, filling them up with cold water from the tap.
The one place I would have loved a case of Nestle Water was Disney World, the water there is like swamp water. Then I found out the restaurants were all happy to give out free cups of ice cold better tasting water if you just asked.

[JC69]

mmmmmmm......Britta.

[BestOffer]

Absolutely nothing, small business have a hard time making money these days so any means to increase their profit margins is good. My point was about the consumption of water in such a wasteful way when as a society we have already spent hundreds of millions of $ in building a safe water delivery system. The energy wasted in producing the bottles, filtering the water, bottling it, transporting it, cooling it again at home, collecting the trash, recycling it (perhaps) when cold clean water is available from our taps is silly. Don't get me wrong, I've bought cases once or twice before when going on holidays. I tend to reuse the bottles a few times, filling them up with cold water from the tap.
The one place I would have loved a case of Nestle Water was Disney World, the water there is like swamp water. Then I found out the restaurants were all happy to give out free cups of ice cold better tasting water if you just asked.

there is a study that reusing those plastic water bottles causes cancer...good luck using them...besides give no **** about it, i don't drink bottled water...

[Emancipated]

I noticed this as well. Nestle seems to be the most popularly found brand around...how ironic that I've always found it to have a particular subtle hint of a peculiar taste-unlike ALL other brands.

It's weird., to their credit I've noticed that the flavour has diminished quite a bit from the initial batches of bottles from a couple years ago...but I still taste it.

Yes I'm weird :D. Bite me.


and make sure NEVER to buy a bottle scrub brush, to never rinse out the bottle., to never wash it even with a weekly (shudderz....) hot water shower..hehe. Shucks some people just don't know anything about bacterial colonies.


You're a stick in the mud.

Good advice, nonetheless. I'll start doing that now :D

[rdoherty]

I blame the half a dozen people that DIED in Walkerton because they drank the 'great tasting' tap water that they believed to be safe for starting the trend around here.

I never go to banks any more.. just ATMs.. ever since I heard about a violent bank robbery in Vancouver..

Too bad such fear created a trend that is generating a lot of waste and dental problems.. as long as you go for your annual cleanings and pay for a fluoride treatment, you probably won't need to drink tap water..

Personally, I feel that redflagdeals is about saving money.. so, bottling your own water saves you from the cost of those plastic bottles, future landfill relocation taxes, and maybe even your dental bills..

But hey.. it's all about how much effort you're willing to put into saving $..

[njneer]

there is a study that reusing those plastic water bottles causes cancer...good luck using them...besides give no **** about it, i don't drink bottled water...

That's an urban legend, but the bottles could build up bacteria if used more than a few times in a short while
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp

[rdoherty]

That's an urban legend, but the bottles could build up bacteria if used more than a few times in a short while
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp

I'm surprised that the snopes website doesn't discuss Antimony leeching from PET bottles.. even though the levels of Antimony are lower than most health guidelines, yet recent studies have shown a drastic increase in Antimony level after storage.


Antimony (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimony)


J Environ Monit. 2006 Feb;8(2):288-92. (http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/EM/article.asp?doi=b517844b)
Contamination of Canadian and European bottled waters with antimony from PET containers.

Using clean lab methods and protocols developed for measuring Sb in polar snow and ice, we report the abundance of Sb in fifteen brands of bottled water from Canada and forty-eight from Europe. Comparison with the natural abundance of Sb in pristine groundwaters, water bottled commercially in polypropylene, analyses of source waters prior to bottling, and addition of uncontaminated groundwater to PET bottles, provides unambiguous evidence of Sb leaching from the containers. In contrast to the pristine groundwater in Ontario, Canada containing 2.2 +/- 1.2 ng l(-1) Sb, 12 brands of bottled natural waters from Canada contained 156 +/- 86 ng l(-1) and 3 brands of deionized water contained 162 +/- 30 ng l(-1); all of these were bottled in PET containers. Natural water from Ontario bottled in polypropylene contained only 8.2 +/- 0.9 ng l(-1). Comparison of three German brands of water available in both glass bottles and PET containers showed that waters bottled in PET contained up to 30 times more Sb. To confirm that the elevated Sb concentrations are due to leaching from the PET containers, water was collected in acid-cleaned LDPE bottles from a commercial source in Germany, prior to bottling; this water was found to contain 3.8 +/- 0.9 ng l(-1) Sb (n = 5), compared with the same brand of water purchased locally in PET bottles containing 359 +/- 54 ng l(-1) (n = 6). This same brand of water in PET bottles, after an additional three months of storage at room temperature, yielded 626 +/- 15 ng l(-1) Sb (n = 3). Other German brands of water in PET bottles contained 253-546 ng l(-1) Sb (n = 5). The median concentration of Sb in thirty-five brands of water bottled in PET from eleven other European countries was 343 ng l(-1) (n = 35). As an independent check of the hypothesis that Sb is leaching from PET, the pristine groundwater from Canada (containing 2.2 +/- 1.2 ng l(-1) Sb) was collected from the source using PET bottles from Germany: this water contained 50 +/- 17 ng l(-1) Sb (n = 2) after only 37 days, even though it was stored in the refrigerator, and 566 ng l(-1) after six months storage at room temperature.

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Environ Sci Technol. 2007 Mar 1;41(5):1560-3

Contamination of bottled waters with antimony leaching from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) increases upon storage.

Antimony concentrations were determined in 132 brands of bottled water from 28 countries. Two of the brands were at or above the maximum allowable Sb concentration for drinking water in Japan (2 microg/L). Elevated concentrations of Sb in bottled waters are due mainly to the Sb2O3 used as the catalyst in the manufacture of polyethylene terephthalate (PET(E)). The leaching of Sb from PET(E) bottles shows variable reactivity. In 14 brands of bottled water from Canada, Sb concentrations increased on average 19% during 6 months storage at room temperature, but 48 brands of water from 11 European countries increased on average 90% under identical conditions. A mineral water from France in PET(E), purchased in Germany, yielded 725 ng/L when first tested, but 1510 ng/L when it was stored for 6 months at room temperature; the same brand of water, purchased in Hong Kong, yielded 1990 ng/L Sb. Pristine groundwater containing 1.7+/-0.4 ng/L Sb (n = 6) yielded 26.6+/-2.3 ng/L Sb (n = 3) after storage in PET(E) bottles from Canada for 6 months versus 281+/-38 ng/L Sb (n = 3) in PET(E) bottles from Germany. Tap water bottled commercially in PET(E) in December 2005 contained 450+/-56 ng/L Sb (n = 3) versus 70.3+/-0.3 ng/L Sb (n = 3) when sampled from a household faucet in the same village (Bammental, Germany), and 25.7+/-1.5 ng/L Sb (n = 3) from a local artesian flow.

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Plus, if you read the website referenced by snopes (http://www.jhsph.edu/PublicHealthNews/articles/Halden_dioxins.html), you'll see the scientist stating the following:

Question: So it’s okay for people to drink out of plastic water bottles?

Answer: First, people should be more concerned about the quality of the water they are drinking rather than the container it’s coming from. Many people do not feel comfortable drinking tap water, so they buy bottled water instead. The truth is that city water is much more highly regulated and monitored for quality. Bottled water is not. It can legally contain many things we would not tolerate in municipal drinking water.

Having said this, there is another group of chemicals, called phthalates that are sometimes added to plastics to make them flexible and less brittle. Phthalates are environmental contaminants that can exhibit hormone-like behavior by acting as endocrine disruptors in humans and animals. If you heat up plastics, you could increase the leaching of phthalates from the containers into water and food.

[TechRock]

the same deal could be find at wal mart too

[BestOffer]

the same deal could be find at wal mart too

WalMart in YVR has the price at $2.94 thou

[Emancipated]

I'm surprised that the snopes website doesn't discuss Antimony leeching from PET bottles.. even though the levels of Antimony are lower than most health guidelines, yet recent studies have shown a drastic increase in Antimony level after storage.


Antimony (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimony)


J Environ Monit. 2006 Feb;8(2):288-92. (http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/EM/article.asp?doi=b517844b)
Contamination of Canadian and European bottled waters with antimony from PET containers.

Using clean lab methods and protocols developed for measuring Sb in polar snow and ice, we report the abundance of Sb in fifteen brands of bottled water from Canada and forty-eight from Europe. Comparison with the natural abundance of Sb in pristine groundwaters, water bottled commercially in polypropylene, analyses of source waters prior to bottling, and addition of uncontaminated groundwater to PET bottles, provides unambiguous evidence of Sb leaching from the containers. In contrast to the pristine groundwater in Ontario, Canada containing 2.2 +/- 1.2 ng l(-1) Sb, 12 brands of bottled natural waters from Canada contained 156 +/- 86 ng l(-1) and 3 brands of deionized water contained 162 +/- 30 ng l(-1); all of these were bottled in PET containers. Natural water from Ontario bottled in polypropylene contained only 8.2 +/- 0.9 ng l(-1). Comparison of three German brands of water available in both glass bottles and PET containers showed that waters bottled in PET contained up to 30 times more Sb. To confirm that the elevated Sb concentrations are due to leaching from the PET containers, water was collected in acid-cleaned LDPE bottles from a commercial source in Germany, prior to bottling; this water was found to contain 3.8 +/- 0.9 ng l(-1) Sb (n = 5), compared with the same brand of water purchased locally in PET bottles containing 359 +/- 54 ng l(-1) (n = 6). This same brand of water in PET bottles, after an additional three months of storage at room temperature, yielded 626 +/- 15 ng l(-1) Sb (n = 3). Other German brands of water in PET bottles contained 253-546 ng l(-1) Sb (n = 5). The median concentration of Sb in thirty-five brands of water bottled in PET from eleven other European countries was 343 ng l(-1) (n = 35). As an independent check of the hypothesis that Sb is leaching from PET, the pristine groundwater from Canada (containing 2.2 +/- 1.2 ng l(-1) Sb) was collected from the source using PET bottles from Germany: this water contained 50 +/- 17 ng l(-1) Sb (n = 2) after only 37 days, even though it was stored in the refrigerator, and 566 ng l(-1) after six months storage at room temperature.

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Environ Sci Technol. 2007 Mar 1;41(5):1560-3

Contamination of bottled waters with antimony leaching from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) increases upon storage.

Antimony concentrations were determined in 132 brands of bottled water from 28 countries. Two of the brands were at or above the maximum allowable Sb concentration for drinking water in Japan (2 microg/L). Elevated concentrations of Sb in bottled waters are due mainly to the Sb2O3 used as the catalyst in the manufacture of polyethylene terephthalate (PET(E)). The leaching of Sb from PET(E) bottles shows variable reactivity. In 14 brands of bottled water from Canada, Sb concentrations increased on average 19% during 6 months storage at room temperature, but 48 brands of water from 11 European countries increased on average 90% under identical conditions. A mineral water from France in PET(E), purchased in Germany, yielded 725 ng/L when first tested, but 1510 ng/L when it was stored for 6 months at room temperature; the same brand of water, purchased in Hong Kong, yielded 1990 ng/L Sb. Pristine groundwater containing 1.7+/-0.4 ng/L Sb (n = 6) yielded 26.6+/-2.3 ng/L Sb (n = 3) after storage in PET(E) bottles from Canada for 6 months versus 281+/-38 ng/L Sb (n = 3) in PET(E) bottles from Germany. Tap water bottled commercially in PET(E) in December 2005 contained 450+/-56 ng/L Sb (n = 3) versus 70.3+/-0.3 ng/L Sb (n = 3) when sampled from a household faucet in the same village (Bammental, Germany), and 25.7+/-1.5 ng/L Sb (n = 3) from a local artesian flow.

=====

Plus, if you read the website referenced by snopes (http://www.jhsph.edu/PublicHealthNews/articles/Halden_dioxins.html), you'll see the scientist stating the following:

Question: So it’s okay for people to drink out of plastic water bottles?

Answer: First, people should be more concerned about the quality of the water they are drinking rather than the container it’s coming from. Many people do not feel comfortable drinking tap water, so they buy bottled water instead. The truth is that city water is much more highly regulated and monitored for quality. Bottled water is not. It can legally contain many things we would not tolerate in municipal drinking water.

Having said this, there is another group of chemicals, called phthalates that are sometimes added to plastics to make them flexible and less brittle. Phthalates are environmental contaminants that can exhibit hormone-like behavior by acting as endocrine disruptors in humans and animals. If you heat up plastics, you could increase the leaching of phthalates from the containers into water and food.

I hope people take time to read this. Granted it's nothing new, but the thought that kept turning in my head was the more of these reports we read about, the more passive we get as society. Where are the proof that these leaching are happening and even if it were happening, the amounts are so minute that we start to rationalize it away. By that I mean, people (I'm guilty of such thing myself) would say that breathing in the smog we call our air is likely more polluting and detrimental to our health than trace chemicals found in bottled water.

My conclusion is, do what you want regarding safe guarding yourself. It is true we breath in harmful chemicals every day, but it doesn't mean we need to expedite our death. They said Global Warming was junk science and unsubstantiated, but then people started to take notice and be aware. It's only a matter of time before people turn up ill from these but I don't want to be a statistic.

[Dakras]

Just make sure it doesn't come from their source in ON. I once bought one by mistake from Staples. It tastes like crap (nutrition facts on the bottle show a big difference too). I filed a complaint and used the remainder of the pack for my fish tank.

[CanadaKnows]

Nestle gives a boost to pet health insurance in Canada, but No Insurance for WellingtonWater Watch

CTV cameras were NOT allowed inside the meeting & There's No Web Site even though Nestle #'s Estimate over a Billion bottles a Year Going Out with a $ 3,000.00 temporary permit

Nestle Purina PetCare Canada and SecuriCan General Insurance Company announced today the official launch of PurinaCare Pet Health Insurance. via Canada NewsWire

Wellington Water Watch is dedicated to the protection, restoration and conservation of drinking water in Guelph and Wellington County. http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/

Nestlé holds Q&A session July 16 with Woman named Gail claiming to be the Canadian President for Quebec & Ontario facilities but No Web Info to be Found yet ?

http://www.topix.net/world/canada

http://www.topix.net/world/canada/2007/07/nestle-gives-a-boost-to-pet-health-insurance-in-canada-but-no-insurance-for-wellingtonwater-watch

Water worries addressed NOT after 4 months: Nestlé's Q&A session yesterday in Aberfoyle Ontario

http://www.topix.net/world/canada/2007/07/water-worries-addressed-maybe-as-a-test-case-attend-nestl-s-q-a-session-tomorrow-in-aberfoyle

[magical]

at zellers, today only. and it is from hope, BC, tastes way better than those from aberfole, ON.

You know, I have to agree with you... that aberfoyle stuff is crap.. after getting 38 cases from staples, I'm already sick of it

[solidxxx]

For starters never drink tap water. You might as well just drink out of your toilet because its the same thing. Tap water was someone else toilet water with poo and pee flushed down into the sewer then filtered and cleaned with chemicals back to your tap. I always boil my water and then put it through the Brita filter before drinking. And bottled water you dont know what in there but then again you can say that for just about everything in this world, but at least it should be cleaner than tap water.

[voyager6868]

solidxxx--you're completely nuts. Tap water isn't sewage that's had some chemicals applied to it (unless you're living in some third-world country, perhaps). You should do some research before you make crazy claims like that.

As for this deal, no bottled water is a "hot deal". Tap water costs about $2/1000L here. This bottled water would cost about $200/1000L. Tap water is regulated and must meet certain standard. There are absolutely 0 standards for bottled water in this country.

[mahjongmaniac]

buy a Nalgene bottle and reuse it!

sometimes i actually re-use the larger 500mL, 710mL, or 1L bottles a few times before a throw 'em out... cuz i used Brita-filtered water.

[porphyra]

For starters never drink tap water. You might as well just drink out of your toilet because its the same thing. Tap water was someone else toilet water with poo and pee flushed down into the sewer then filtered and cleaned with chemicals back to your tap. I always boil my water and then put it through the Brita filter before drinking. And bottled water you dont know what in there but then again you can say that for just about everything in this world, but at least it should be cleaner than tap water.

You are kidding, right?:confused: