Aldi & alcohol

tamara25

Was in my local aldi today around 2. They weren’t selling alcohol. Aisle was blocked off. It’s not essential?

Reputable Rog

What time?

yabadabado

tamara25 wrote: »

Was in my local aldi today around 2. They weren’t selling alcohol. Aisle was blocked off. It’s not essential?

I was in my local Aldi around 1pm and off-licence was open .

Cork Lass

What time were you there- no alcohol before 12.30 on Sunday.

yabadabado

OP has said around 2.

elperello

It's normal to see drink aisles closed on a Sunday up to 12.30 due to licensing laws.
Maybe someone forgot to open it up.

Reputable Rog

Could have forgotten to put her watch back.

bmc58

Cork Lass wrote: »

What time were you there- no alcohol before 12.30 on Sunday.

That's always the case in Ireland,suppose due to our catholic upbringing.

Sonderkommando

I noticed in a few aldi's of late that they have alcohol section with a barrier type thing that you push through to enter.

jenneyk19

who buys alcohol Sunday morning

you have work monday

Bubbaclaus

When has alcohol ever been essential?

Most likely forgot to open it up, although an hour and a half is quite a length of time.

Mehaffey1

jenneyk19 wrote: »

who buys alcohol Sunday morning

you have work monday

Little bit of a generalisation there

Spanish Eyes

Who doesn't buy booze of a Sunday.

I'd have (hic, hic) asked a staff member why it was closed provided it was after the Catholic Matt Talbot induced Sunday opening hours for selling alcohol. In fact I would have DEMANDED that they select their best Merlot for me as a punishment. LOL.

odyssey06

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Who doesn't buy booze of a Sunday.
I'd have (hic, hic) asked a staff member why it was closed provided it was after the Catholic Matt Talbot induced Sunday opening hours for selling alcohol. In fact I would have DEMANDED that they select their best Merlot for me as a punishment. LOL.

You should have demanded a Chateau Talbot!

Seems like an oversight in this store, lots of people on the whiskey thread who bought their specials today.

jenneyk19

who buys alcohol Sunday morning you have to work monday

odyssey06

jenneyk19 wrote: »

who buys alcohol Sunday morning you have to work monday

Well, you can have a glass of wine with dinner or a nightcap without getting a hangover.
And some people don't have to work mondays.

And other people were in picking up one of their special whiskeys that dropped today.

irish_goat

jenneyk19 wrote: »

who buys alcohol Sunday morning you have to work monday

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Spanish Eyes

odyssey06 wrote: »

You should have demanded a Chateau Talbot!

Seems like an oversight in this store, lots of people on the whiskey thread who bought their specials today.

LOL. Just short staffed or an oversight I reckon too.

Quackster

Sonderkommando wrote: »

I noticed in a few aldi's of late that they have alcohol section with a barrier type thing that you push through to enter.

Mandatory in all supermarkets from 11th January 2021.

tamara25

Barriers were up in aisle so I presumed it was shut off?? Should have asked staff member

Quackster

tamara25 wrote: »

Barriers were up in aisle so I presumed it was shut off?? Should have asked staff member

They are swing-shut barriers so will always be closed unless someone is passing through them. You just have to push through them.

irish_goat

Have them as standard here up north. Don't worry, they'll break and end up being stuck open in no time.

elperello

irish_goat wrote: »

Have them as standard here up north. Don't worry, they'll break and end up being stuck open in no time.

They remind me of the swing doors in an old wild west saloon.

Well done to the neo prohibitionists they have got a result installing something that makes me think of drink and debauchery.

Yee ha set em up Joe

Quackster

Quackster wrote: »

Mandatory in all supermarkets from 11th January 2021.

12th of November is what I've heard.

BeerNut

Deleted User wrote: »

12th of November is what I've heard.

That's right: Section 22 of the Act says it kicks in two years after commencement. Commencement was in SI 448 of 2018, dated 12th November 2018. All hail the beer burqa.

Quackster

BeerNut wrote: »

That's right: Section 22 of the Act says it kicks in two years after commencement. Commencement was in SI 448 of 2018, dated 12th November 2018. All hail the beer burqa.

Apologies, was getting mixed up with SI 4 of 2020 which comes into effect on 12th January 2021.

L1011

Going to be a lot of extremely shonky things thrown together in two weeks

One of the suggested presentations in an official document was a fully enclosed box, emblazoned with 'beer cave' and some awful 00s idea of cool / 'sexy' graphics. Which I suspect makes drinking more attractive to teenagers than a shelf of bottles ever did

Bubbaclaus

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

When has alcohol ever been essential?

Are you just buying bread and water when you shop?

beardybrewer

Sonderkommando wrote: »

I noticed in a few aldi's of late that they have alcohol section with a barrier type thing that you push through to enter.

Quackster wrote: »

They are swing-shut barriers so will always be closed unless someone is passing through them. You just have to push through them.

This.

I shop every Monday and my local Aldi suddenly had saloon doors you push through into the alcohol section today.

OP probably saw the doors for the first time and presumed the section was shut.

rubadub

Deleted User wrote: »

12th of November is what I've heard.

I heard a cashier in dunnes told somebody that in Nov. they would stop accepting alcohol with the tenner off a spend of 50 coupons. Maybe they were getting it mixed up with this law.

My tesco has the doors too, it does look closed off.

Quackster

rubadub wrote: »

I heard a cashier in dunnes told somebody that in Nov. they would stop accepting alcohol with the tenner off a spend of 50 coupons. Maybe they were getting it mixed up with this law.

My tesco has the doors too, it does look closed off.

As I said, that law comes into effect on the 12th January. Easy to get the two dates mixed up!

Can't see any benefit to Dunnes enforcing that law earlier than necessary and just before Christmas too. Would piss off a lot of their customers.