Infamous Wakey Wines shop ‘charges £1,000 a BOTTLE for rare new flavour of Prime drink’ and two lads splashed out on 12
WAKEY Wines is charging £1,000 a bottle for a rare new flavour of Prime energy drink.
The off-licence in West Yorkshire, has gained more than 800,000 followers on TikTok after going viral for selling Logan Paul and KSI’s drink at extortionate prices.
Shop owner Mohammed Azar Nazir, 41,was recently blasted for flogging KSI’s drink for £100 a pop.
But now they are charging ten times that for a new type of the sports drink – Prime Lemonade.
And two lads yesterday splashed out on a dozen bottles – setting them back a whopping £12,000.
Now the shop has just 12 bottles left in stock.
Prime, marketed as an energy drink, has taken the world by storm, especially with youngsters and teenagers who are desperate to get their hands on it.
The drink claims to “help you refresh, replenish, and refuel”, it contains B vitamins, electrolytes and coconut water.
It was released in June last year and still has thousands of kids — or their parents — scrambling to snap up any of its eight flavours.
Even celebrities are using their star power to try to shortcut the queues, with Wayne Rooney pestering KSI for a bottle for son Kit’s seventh birthday in January and Stacey Solomon getting in touch to say she couldn’t find any on the supermarket shelves.
Since the drink launched it had been available for £2 from Asda, Aldi and Spar.
Premier League club Arsenal announced a partnership with the brand a month later, making the drinks available for fans at their Emirates Stadium on match days.
Sainsbury’s in February started stocking the drink, and due to the large volume of calls it receives about the product, issued a statement saying: “Our Contact Centre colleagues don’t have any further information on the stock of Prime drinks currently available.
“If you’d like to know the availability of Prime drinks in your local store, please visit the store itself.”