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    #3962
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,030 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    More freebies... Budvar 4-pack bought yesterday in Dunnes with no deposit (actually, nothing on their shelves had a deposit!) and the barcode on each can is in the Re-Turn list 👍️

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #3963
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,819 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I've never seen Budvar in cans in Ireland before now, how long have those been available?



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    #3964
    DrZeuss
    Registered Users Posts: 878 ✭✭✭DrZeuss


    Picked up a few in O Briens Wines yesterday, To OI and Kinnegar. Was informed that most of the Craft beers were under the new scheme and would be charged, no problem lets try this new scheme out.

    Had a look at the cans when I got home, no Re-Turn logo so thought I was duped. Checked the website and the barcodes were registered (although why they don't have a scan to check rather than manual entry is an odd choice). Check their twitter page and on the 1st and 2nd Feb they said the below. 😵

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    #3965
    JayRoc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,579 ✭✭✭JayRoc


    I can't see an obvious answer to this on any of the press releases; does the display price not now have to include the deposit?


    Or are we expected to do the north american thing of having to calculate the full price ourselves before we get to the till?



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    #3966
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,787 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    American option for me in SuperValu today. Yee haa.

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    #3967
    Pen Rua
    Registered Users Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭Pen Rua


    And, from memory, the German way too. Prices are marked €x plus €y pfand.



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    #3968
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,030 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121719633#Comment_121719633

    In Dunnes since early last year I think. My local Molloys had them for a while too, but not recently alas. One of my favourite beers and one which always attracted a strong price premium when in bottle.

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #3969
    Tinter Box
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭Tinter Box


    Bought 4 althea in Lidl pre scheme for 6.49. They have logos on them. I’ll stick through machine to see what happens.



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    #3970
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,819 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121747075#Comment_121747075

    Be prepared to possibly spend quite some time putting them through - GBB barcodes are black on silver or black on grey and hence a bugger to read.

    But Althea cans will work, eventually. I found that putting GBB stuff in head-first read easier but different models of machine will be different.



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    #3971
    Tinter Box
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭Tinter Box


    Bizarrely these are black on white!



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    #3972
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,819 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121747169#Comment_121747169

    You'll be fine then - different run of cans to my disasters clearly.

    Hopefully the "actually read properly" ones are the newer ones.



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    #3973
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,030 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121621000#Comment_121621000

    Well the rest of the Polish fridge is still there for now, but the Polish Tyskie has been substituted with weaker and less flavoursome Grolsch-brewed "Tyskie"

    Dark days ahead for fans of any low-volume imported beers.

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #3974
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,819 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121748056#Comment_121748056

    Surely the Polish Tyskie was in glass and hence not in scope?



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    #3975
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,030 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Nope, cans imported from Poland

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #3976
    Twee.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Twee.


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121721081#Comment_121721081

    Yes, and it applies to all pricing advertising! Samples from the Return deck on branding:

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    #3977
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,782 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    They don't add it onto the price, though, they just indicate that it needs to be added on.



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    #3978
    adaminho
    Registered Users Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭adaminho


    Just on the deposit return thing, I passed the back of the local Dealz the other day and there is several orange bins marked return. I wonder is there a separate collection truck for them?



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    #3979
    Twee.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Twee.



    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121757440#Comment_121757440

    Ah yeah, it's not part of the price of course as you get it back but the pizza ad sample just made me lol. I can't see my local chipper & Chinese updating their flyers with this sort of stuff!


    Going to take a machine for a spin today, finally have a bottle to return :D



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    #3980
    squonk
    Registered Users Posts: 8,544 ✭✭✭squonk


    I tried a few yesterday. It’s free money for me at the moment as I’m run through my stock of Kinnegar cans bought before Christmas with no DRS added on. Overall though I do think the whole thing is going to just turn into a massive pain in the hole.



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    #3981
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,782 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121758845#Comment_121758845

    What? You're getting a return on cans that you never paid the deposit on?



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    #3982
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,819 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121758915#Comment_121758915

    Kinnegar have registered (most? all?) of their barcodes as international barcodes meaning all existing stock will refund also.



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    #3983
    squonk
    Registered Users Posts: 8,544 ✭✭✭squonk


    Yeah and a White Hag sour also registered too.



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    #3984
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,777 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121758954#Comment_121758954

    Same on an Irish IPA I picked up last Friday..

    Using this to scan barcodes.. not sure if it's been posted already but handy: https://re-turn.shanehastings.ie/



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    #3985
    DrZeuss
    Registered Users Posts: 878 ✭✭✭DrZeuss


    I wonder is it all craft beers. Just tried TWH Little Fawn that I got prior to Christmas and its in the scheme. Also tried Kinsale Tropical (part of a 96 can deal last week) and that's included.

    That just made that Kinsale deal even better (€14.40 free money, cashback).



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    #3986
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,777 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Another Bran And Sceolan I got a fortnight ago wasn't eligible.. so probably depends on when produced.



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    #3987
    squonk
    Registered Users Posts: 8,544 ✭✭✭squonk


    Yeah. The Western Herd cans I’ve tried haven’t scanned on the site. I bought them before Christmas too. They don’t seem to have upped their prices either to include the deposit but no complaints anyway as I just dump them in the recycle bin at home afterwards as always.



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    #3988
    Blisterman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,450 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Anyone know what you're supposed to do with cans that don't scan? My local Tesco refused to take them, so I took them home. But if I wasn't heading directly home afterwards, I'd have had to throw them in the general waste bin.

    Is there any way of forcing them into the machine? I'd rather not lose an arm in doing so!



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    #3989
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,819 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121765968#Comment_121765968

    Take them home. Most Tesco stores would have a bottle bank with aluminium bins though

    There is no way of putting them in to the machine if it doesn't take them, don't try.



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    #3990
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121766003#Comment_121766003

    Which is a basic design flaw. The whole point is supposed to be to increase recycling and discourage waste (and not to employ lots of people in yet another quango). So if a can doesn't scan, just have it say "can't be scanned, deposit anyway?" - or end up with with a load of cans that would have been put in recycling at home get dumped in a general waste bin, or a ditch.



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    #3991
    Pen Rua
    Registered Users Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭Pen Rua


    Tesco Paul St Cork, and others judging by pics on Twitter, have bins beside the machines inviting customers to recycle rejected cans.

    Back to Ireland after a holiday, so haven’t interacted with the new scheme yet. Used the barcode scanner tool someone shared and a couple of the cans I have pre-scheme seem to be scanning ok on the tool.



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