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I saw earlier that Tesco are selling some Stella, 15 cans for £5...

Now i love a bargain, and I love my beer, so this is good. However.

These prices are killing the pub trade, and probably fuelling alcoholics everywhere. Do you think there should be some kind of restriction in place against cheap booze?

I know its nice to buy cheap and we all have the right to buy etc. However I think its detrimental to pub culture.

With higher prices drinking may become more of a special occasion thing, and not a weekly need.
 
I guess I think its just a shame that small independant pubs are closing by the hundreds because they cant compete. Pubs arent necessarily ripoffs, they are covering there costs themselves.

15 cans for 5 quid is certainly mega cheap!
 
Up to £7-9 for a double vodka and coke in some clubs, better off relaxing with friends in your own flat with your £5 stella...
 
rz30 said:
Up to £7-9 for a double vodka and coke in some clubs, better off relaxing with friends in your own flat with your £5 stella...
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Yeah i understand this.

Bargains are too good to miss, but I still feel that its getting a bit mental.

Dunno how I can be questioning something that is only beneficial to us all, but I think small independant pubs are part of british culture and they are rapidly decreasing in number.
 
I blame the pubs who think the best way of keeping their revenues up is by increasing their prices instead of attracting more customers. I know a lot of these are done through the brewery responsible, also mentioning the increasing rental prices some of these pubs have, the only ones really surviving are doing it through food sales.
 
I tend to disagree really.

Pubs and Restaurants massively mark up their prices and I think drinking at home is totally different to drinking in a pub.

If you go to a pub, its to go out and socialize and enjoy a drink with company.
If your buying beer to just consume on your own (not using it for a party or something) then its quite a different experience.

I don't believe prices should be put up because low cost encourages alcoholism. People just need to moderate how much they take, just like anything else in life. If someone really does have a drinking problem, they will buy it no matter how much it costs.
 
Drinking should be a regular occurance and I think it is just you being paranoid.
As if booze isn't expensive enough?
I go down the pub nearly every night and have a few, have a few more on the weekend, it's much better to go out, it's the social aspect which draws us to pubs, if you make shopbought booze more expensive people will have less money for the pub.

And to be honest, I love the offers. At the moment I've got about 80 crates in total of cheap generic beer and cider, about another 20 of the premium ales and ciders, nearing 150 bottles of wine and I don't even know how many bottles of spirits. Women like buying shoes and clothes I like filling my garage and music room with alcohol.
Everyone thinks I'm an alchy but I just love a drink, everyone in my family does, it isn't a dependancy.

Only thing I don't like is buying it off of ******* supermarkets and where possible i'll go to proper booze shops.
 
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pitchfork said:
And to be honest, I love the offers. At the moment I've got about 80 crates in total of cheap generic beer and cider, about another 20 of the premium ales and ciders, nearing 150 bottles of wine and I don't even know how many bottles of spirits. Women like buying shoes and clothes I like filling my garage and music room with alcohol.
Everyone thinks I'm an alchy but I just love a drink, everyone in my family does, it isn't a dependancy.
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Your ridiculous claims and fantasies never cease to amaze me. You have 100 crates of beer and 150 bottles of wine on top of your spirit collection so massive that you've lost count? How do you fit your E60 BMW M5 in beside all that lot?

Let's see some pictures.
 
My local Tesco has an utterly crap selection of beer. I walk down the aisle every time to see if they're got something new and interesting in, but no, they never have. There's a cursory nod to Belgian beers and the odd interesting/massively overpriced ale here and there, but they've not changed their stock in over a year.

Lidl is better, at least it's cheap and crap, not just crap.
 
I've just bought 144 cans of Carlsberg for £40 (about 28p per can) - stocking up for the future weeks since it's so cheap; any 3 crates for £20 :o Also at Tesco you can buy 2litres(200cl) of Smirnoff Vodka for £20 - ridiculous.
 
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