A Workington garage has been quickly selling out of an internet sensation electrolyte drink – with one shopper buying £1000 worth of bottles.
Euro Garage’s Lillyhall Service Station near Workington, which has the same owners as Asda, has been stocking the ‘impossible to get’ Prime Hydration Drink that has sent the nation’s teenagers crazy.
The service station said youngsters have been running in to get their hands on a bottle, with its first stock of 3,000 bottles selling out in just six hours at £2.99 per bottle.
Manager Joanne Parker, 41, of High Harrington, said: “The first time we sold them people could buy whatever they wanted. People were coming in and buying crates and somebody bought £1,000-worth of stock. We got another 3,000 bottles in a few days ago so we limited it to two per person because it was getting beyond a joke.
“People aren’t getting a chance to buy it at a normal price and there’s people inflating it at £5 to £10 per bottle. We’ve sold out again with the new restrictions in just three of four days, so it has been really good for sales.”
She added that they often get shoppers asking when new stock is expected to arrive in store, but that the staff are never aware of when the drink will arrive.
She said: “The bottles just land, we’re not sure when they come, we just put it on social media and say that we’ve got them. It doesn’t last long as the college kids come in and take pictures to put it on Snapchat and it just goes mental.
“We are hoping we’ll get more of it because it sells so well but we just don’t know when that will be.”
Joanne added that Cockermouth’s Euro Garage Oakhurst Service Station is also selling bottles of the drink.
Prime, which is made in America, was originally exclusively sold in Asda stores across the UK, but was also made available in Aldi as a special buy for £1.99.
Created by YouTubers and boxing rivals KSI and Logan Paul, the drink is made up of 10 per cent coconut water, electrolytes, B vitamins, BCAAs, zero sugar and has around 20 calories per bottle, the manufactures claim.
