Putting the price of booze up like fags

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Calls to increase the price of a unit of booze because we're all drinking too much.
The state says stop getting lashed.
Not sure it'll stop an alcky.
 
Landlords (myself included when I was one) have been saying for years we need a minimum unit price so stop supermarkets being able to sell FAR cheaper than pubs. This will also hopefully slow the sales of cheap super strength ciders etc that seriously.

Increase supermarket prices, keep pubs the same.

Having just come back from Spain how can they sell booze cheaper in pubs and supermarkets but they don't appear to be a nation of alcoholics? Maybe finding the answer to this and addressing the culture might be a place to start.
 
It's not much of a vote winner though as a policy is it?

I don't think that alcohol is as yet as socially unacceptable as cigarettes, once that tipping point is reached then the prices might well rocket.
 
MolteniArcore said:
Landlords (myself included when I was one) have been saying for years we need a minimum unit price so stop supermarkets being able to sell FAR cheaper than pubs. This will also hopefully slow the sales of cheap super strength ciders etc that seriously.

Increase supermarket prices, keep pubs the same.

Having just come back from Spain how can they sell booze cheaper in pubs and supermarkets but they don't appear to be a nation of alcoholics? Maybe finding the answer to this and addressing the culture might be a place to start.
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If we go to a restaurant should we expect the food to cost the same as in the supermarket? Regarding booze in the U.K., it is a massive cultural blight. In terms of pricing, it's usually a race to the bottom. Which pubs are busiest? In my experience, the ones with the cheapest drinks.
 
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Sulamani said:
If you go to a restaurant should we expect the food to cost the same as in the supermarket? Regarding booze in the U.K., it is a massive cultural blight. In terms of pricing, it's usually a race to the bottom. Which pubs are busiest? In my experience, the ones with the cheapest drinks.
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Fair point Sulamani.

The pub trade has a lot of issues.

Culture has a lot to blame and the Government should be trying to address that really.
 
MolteniArcore said:
Fair point Sulamani.

The pub trade has a lot of issues.

Culture has a lot to blame and the Government should be trying to address that really.
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Lots of landlords just expect people to come in and pay over the odds as if the trade owes them a living. Free market economics, for all the faults, is adept at illustrating areas of economic failure. The pub market is one of them.
 
True. Apart from WWII we've never seen such a rapid change in society habits as we have in the last decade or so.
Cheap booze at home and people are more likely to chat/interact in social media now than have the same intercourse down the pub = the death of boozers.
Good or bad thing?
I only go to out for a couple before and after the match, other than that can't remember the last time I went down just for a pint.
 
Sulamani said:
Lots of landlords just expect people to come in and pay over the odds as if the trade owes them a living. Free market economics, for all the faults, is adept at illustrating areas of economic failure. The pub market is one of them.
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I feel for the landlords with unfair tenancies etc - it all needs sorting.
 
Don’t mind a pint but seldom drink, once a fortnight but occasionally go out and have a few. The question is, why should I pay more because others can’t manage to do things in moderation?
 
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