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Proposed minimum alcohol pricing
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I had been calling things in the law loopholes too, but a loophole is usually an oversight that they forgot to put into the law. In this case it is clearly in the law that you can have "combination deals". The smaller offies will suffer hugely due to this. A small offie could offer "combination/meal deals" but will have not nearly as much stock to offer than supermarkets do so will not be attractive at all.
It's more than that though - from my reading of the amendment, it also means that offering cashback or accepting vouchers as part of the cash price will still be allowed, so therefore an off license can either (a) say "get €10 back when you spend €20 on cans" or say "€38 per slab, but if you have loyalty card points worth €10, that counts as part of the €38 so you only owe us €28 and we'll give you back more loyalty points."
Unless I'm totally misreading the bill, that will still be allowed, so these are fantastic loopholes which essentially undermine the MUP.
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