Tesco - 1l Smirnoff €20 - Spirits Sale

firebug_guy

Tesco currently have the following Spirits on offer this weekend:

1 litre of Baileys – €17 (save €9.10)
1 litre of Cork Dry Gin – €19 (save €9.84)
1 litre of Smirnoff Vodka – €20 (save €9.10)
1 litre of Jameson – €27 (save €11.49)

Ref: http://freeb.ie/2009/11/20/tesco-spirit-offers-we-221109/

Davexirl

Whhaaeeeyyyyy cheers for the info :D

gymnipities

Supervalu have 700cl bottles of Paddy Whiskey for €17 this week.
http://www.supervalu.ie/special_offers/special_offers.538.html

IrishIrish

gymnipities wrote: »

Supervalu have 70cl bottles of Paddy Whiskey for €17 this week.
http://www.supervalu.ie/special_offers/special_offers.538.html

FYP

smallgarden

southern comfort is never on special

Brian1989

smallgarden wrote: »

southern comfort is never on special

£14 in sainsburys & asda until the 8th of dec i think

54kroc

Fantastic prices, Great find op.

CFC007

No 1 litre bottles of Vodka left in Douglas Cork

Hogzy

CFC007 wrote: »

No 1 litre bottles of Vodka left in Douglas Cork

Just bought 2 about half an hour ago!

wmpdd3

Customer quotas apply. (So bring as many people over 18 with ID as you can find!)

jimmay

2 of these for £25 I saw on add on tv in tescoes up north

Woodgate

jimmay wrote: »

2 of these for £25 I saw on add on tv in tescoes up north

Yeah, seen that myself, we never truely get great deals over here.

54kroc

No 1L Smirnoff left in Douglas or Mahon Point, Plenty of the rest though.

ciarraioch1

no smirnoff left in the crescent centre in limerick either
seemingly endless supply of the others though

ronbyrne2005

Publicans must make some money on a shot of vodka if tesco can sell it at 20euro for a litre.

I bought 2 litre bottles of smirnoff vodka for £15 in gatwick duty free last week. Ah to have tax free booze.....

Will stock up on other spirits for the festive season, thanks OP

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Tesco are likely making a loss,even more likely with their buying power they can get massive discounts

54kroc

jackncoke wrote: »

Tesco are likely making a loss,even more likely with their buying power they can get massive discounts

I think the cost price for 1L of Smirnoff is €21.09, With the amount of people they draw to the shop with these offers it's bound to be worth it to them.

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cork45 wrote: »

I think the cost price for 1L of Smirnoff is €21.09, With the amount of people they draw to the shop with these offers it's bound to be worth it to them.

I know yah,they will obviously make up the money on impulse purchases.Still tho,cant complain about that for a retail price

mcaul

ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

Publicans must make some money on a shot of vodka if tesco can sell it at 20euro for a litre.

the duty on a litre of spirits is about €15.30 + vat which bring it to €18.50.

there's also vat on the remaining 1.50, so the total revenue for tesco on the litre of vodka is about €1.25 - out of this they have to pay for it, so my guess is a loss of about €7 per bottle

54kroc

jackncoke wrote: »

I know yah,they will obviously make up the money on impulse purchases.Still tho,cant complain about that for a retail price

It's a great price but i'm bitter as I stocked up for christmas last week.

daveyjoe

mcaul wrote: »

the duty on a litre of spirits is about €15.30 + vat which bring it to €18.50.

there's also vat on the remaining 1.50, so the total revenue for tesco on the litre of vodka is about €1.25 - out of this they have to pay for it, so my guess is a loss of about €7 per bottle

I thought that selling at below cost price was illegal?

mcaul

daveyjoe wrote: »

I thought that selling at below cost price was illegal?

not anymore - rules changed about 2 years ago. Supermarkets claimed that it would bring down the cost of groceries, but all it did was start an alcohol price war which is a benefit for responsible drinkers, but which is major problem for anti social behaviour and also people who have addiction problems.

Fr Tierney

Asda Enniskillen was selling 1L of Baileys for £9 last Friday. Yeah I mean a Litre bottle. limit of 3 per customer. Everyone had 3 in the trolly.

CourierCollie

smallgarden wrote: »

southern comfort is never on special

Tesco Nutgrove had southy at €20.89 today. Not great, but still significantly less than the usual €27 or so.

rubadub

mcaul wrote: »

the duty on a litre of spirits is about €15.30 + vat which bring it to €18.50.

there's also vat on the remaining 1.50, so the total revenue for tesco on the litre of vodka is about €1.25 - out of this they have to pay for it, so my guess is a loss of about €7 per bottle

Excise duty is €39.25 per litre pure, so €14.72 per litre of smirnoff (37.5%). I am not sure if there is other duty on top of that?

A standard 700ml bottle is got a lot of the time for €20, so on the same price per ml a litre should normally be €28.57.

Spirits are very cheap to make, if you had a licence you could make 1L of 40% vodka for €2 and is with higher production costs than they would have. I would also wonder if manufacturers could partially take a hit too, i.e. smirnoff could have below cost selling themselves as a way to promote their product.

Davy

For anyone who missed this offer, Dunnes have the 70cl bottles of Red Smirnoff for €17.99, and the 70cl of Jameson for €18.99.

chris1970

is the dunnes offer today only?

Davy

chris1970 wrote: »

is the dunnes offer today only?

Nope, until Saturday the 28th

K4t

Meh.

Got four 70cls of vodka for €28 literally two minutes over the border today. Buying stuff in the South is a mug's game tbh.

amacachi

K4t wrote: »

Meh.

Got four 70cls of vodka for €28 literally two minutes over the border today. Buying stuff in the South is a mug's game tbh.

Litre of Glen's is I think 11stg in Sainsbury's, even when it's not on offer. It's unreal that 20 quid for a litre is considered so good.

mcaul

K4t wrote: »

Meh.

Got four 70cls of vodka for €28 literally two minutes over the border today. Buying stuff in the South is a mug's game tbh.

Hope you didn't buy any petrol or diesel over the border!

Diesel is an average of €1.29 a litre up north and about 1.07 in the south.

Also I hope you're not thinking of moving to the Uk soon - the average €3000 council tax & €450 water charges will stick in your throat too! As will the higher paye taxes and lower wage levels.

Bandit12

K4t wrote: »

Meh.

Got four 70cls of vodka for €28 literally two minutes over the border today. Buying stuff in the South is a mug's game tbh.

Agreed. The only surprise to me is that more people don't shop up North.

rubadub

K4t wrote: »

Meh.

Got four 70cls of vodka for €28 literally two minutes over the border today. Buying stuff in the South is a mug's game tbh.

For people who live in the south of "the South" it could cost them more to travel up. The real mugs are those who lose out overall by not calculating the REAL cost. It is just like convenience stores, some people will travel miles to Dunnes to save a few pence on a pint of milk, when it would have costed less to get it in the local shop.

amacachi

rubadub wrote: »

For people who live in the south of "the South" it could cost them more to travel up. The real mugs are those who lose out overall by not calculating the REAL cost. It is just like convenience stores, some people will travel miles to Dunnes to save a few pence on a pint of milk, when it would have costed less to get it in the local shop.

Oh thank Christ, for a second I thought you were going to go about us being traitors for not supporting local shops like Tesco. :pac:

segaBOY

I don't know how the shops here are meant to compete. To buy 12 bottles of Smirnoff at cost it's €253.12 incl VAT from a wholesaler. That works out at €21.09 per bottle incl. VAT before you add on any mark up.

Musgraves

On the other hand Tesco are selling this at €20 to their customers, tis good value alright.

nowuckenfurries

Super Value have bottles of Smirnoff for EUR 17.00 at the moment too

Cionád

segaBOY wrote: »

I don't know how the shops here are meant to compete. To buy 12 bottles of Smirnoff at cost it's €253.12 incl VAT from a wholesaler. That works out at €21.09 per bottle incl. VAT before you add on any mark up.

Musgraves

On the other hand Tesco are selling this at €20 to their customers, tis good value alright.

Presumably they will cost a lot less once the reduction in excise has been taken into account. Anyone been in Tesco recently?

cgarrad

1 litre bottles of Smirnoff are £12 in Sainsburys. I was there on Friday. And there was hundreds of bottles....

TequilaMockingBird

mcaul wrote: »

the duty on a litre of spirits is about €15.30 + vat which bring it to €18.50.

there's also vat on the remaining 1.50, so the total revenue for tesco on the litre of vodka is about €1.25 - out of this they have to pay for it, so my guess is a loss of about €7 per bottle

/Off Topic, but your sig is misleading. You should say "Free Delivery for orders over €59" instead of "Free Delivery" - it just pisses people off.

But HURRAH for cheap Vodka for the people!

segaBOY

nowuckenfurries wrote: »

Super Value have bottles of Smirnoff for EUR 17.00 at the moment too

I think that's the 70cl one if I remember correctly?

Nonoperational

cgarrad wrote: »

1 litre bottles of Smirnoff are £12 in Sainsburys. I was there on Friday. And there was hundreds of bottles....

€20 is not a rip off. It's considerably cheaper than the usual price in IRELAND. Jesus do you want me to start quoting the price of vodka in Spain. Cop on ffs. If saving 6 euro is worth driving to the north for you grand, I don't care. I really don't want to hear it and I'm not that tight that I'd go through the hassle.