How does this tax write-off work?
I'm in business 32 years and this is a new one on me that you can write off at retail price.
You might be consuming too much cheap alcohol with that level of ridiculousness
We were talking about that on another thread and while it's hard to tell how things will pan out it's interesting to speculate.
My own hunch is that craft beers won't go up much.
The market for craft beer is people already drinking beer trading up so to speak.
If the people already drinking ordinary beers are paying more for them they will have less money to experiment with craft beers.
It's in the interest of craft brewers to recruit new customers so they will try to incentivise retailers to keep prices at a sensible level.
Prices always have jumped in January.
The next promo period is for champagne and sparkling wine in February followed by the second biggest booze sales period - st Patrick's Day.
That is the one to watch.
Craft beers will really take off if they stay at the same price imo.
Well that's it, fun over for now...
Thanks to all my fellow booze lovers for this thread, a joy to behold to discover or post a bargain .
just finished watching the darts ,will have a couple of more cheap cans tonight , back to work on Wednesday, my cheap 50 cent a can harp lager secured today will go down a treat ,once I’ve dried out for a week or two from the xmas consumption.
Looking forward with great anticipation and hope of a good Northern Ireland bargain beer alert, fingers crossed .
Maybe a stupid question, but will the MUP affect the price at wholesalers like Musgraves? I presume it will.
Aa in, there won't be any benefit buying from them vs supermarkets
No, but Musgrave's have always been more expensive than retail shops anyway. I'd be there every few weeks and have never bought alcohol there as it was rather expensive.
Correct, always found it more expensive, hence my curiosity ... was wondering if it could now become less expensive!
prices jump on stuff like smirnoff, guinness, heineken etc, as they have been greatly reduced.
Some products very rarely get discounted, and if they are it is a small % unlike what we see with cases.
The cheap ciders would fall into that category, which is why I was surprised that they would be priced so high above MUP, it is not just rounding.
Rosies was being sold off for 30cent a can in dunnes it is a "4 for a fiver" cider. I think the 2L was about five euro before, it shows as €4.12 back in 2020
I went into aldi for antigen tests and grabbed one last slab of bud as it was €15. I don't even like bud that much.
think I've 3 heino, 2 bud, 2 boxes miller, 3 crafty boxes, 4 guinness, 3/4 carlsberg and 1 canadian in stock.
I see dutch gold, karpackie and prazsky cans reduced to 440ml, they also have flashed labels, the dutch gold is 4 for a fiver, it would have to be 3.6% to be sold at a fiver. I can't make out the label but it could be 3.5%. I think the karpackie would also have to drop in % to be the flashed price.
I might be developing a serious drinking problem due to this thread! Have stockpiled Whiskey, Gin, Rum, Vodka etc which should last me months. Naas is only a short trip to NI, so I will be depending on you all to steer me to the bargains. There will still be lots of bargains on the premium spirits, wines and champagnes but the neverending conversations about beer are likely to seriously reduce the post count lol.
that should see you through till Paddy's day
So when is this thread being renamed Booze deals Northern Ireland?:-)
Wouldn't need to as thread already here.
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058183383/booze-deals-nirl-edition#latest
Well you clearly don’t know how accounting works! 😳
Good bye cheap booze
You were one of the greats
I was gonna say get creative, but it's not costing them any more whether it was bought yesterday or tomorrow, so i dunno..
Sorry for my lack of knowledge, but could you please pinpoint what are the principles you mention here? I'd like to try to understand your reasoning here.
Even before mup, 4 cans of breedog punk is 10, maybe 8 on sale. 12 cans in North is 14stg, 12 on sale regularly.
Usually bacardi 1L is 16-17 stg etc. Feck the MUP
Luckily I have a contact that goes to the north regularly. Got 1 litre Tanqueray £18, Johnny Walker Black label £18 and a bottle of Woodford Reserve £20.
Johnny Walker Black was €46 in most shops down here. Woodford reserve €44.
RIP cheap booze. I was in tesco last night and they were charging 28 euro for 15 cans!!!!
I can see smaller cans and lower alcohol coming for the 500ml cans and 330ml btls going to 300ml.
Choice 1 - Cheap dishwater beer at €2 a can
Choice 2 - Decent beer at €2 a can
If one place sells crap at €2 and decides to put decent stuff up to €3, customers will very quickly move on to a competitor that sells the decent stuff at €2.
Basic competition.
The price war, if they continue to use alcohol, will now move to decent stuff and there will be plenty of bargains to be had if you like a better quality product
i just wanna say thanks to all who have posted offers/deals, etc here.
I’ve had many a great night on the back of your labour!
A special mention to zell who has played a blinder here over the years.
a lad I work with lives in the north so he’ll be getting a crisp 20 once every 2 months and a shopping list
Okay, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
But what if a craft beer producer decides to sell it at a higher price? There's more profit, it would "force" the retailer into selling it above the €2 value, it would raise the perception of the value of a given product. The beer public is already used to a small difference in price for better quality products and would accept the difference (eg: Since Lidl Excelsior is now almost €2, it's only natural that beers that were priced at €2 until last month, are now priced €3). And once one beer producer successfully apply such a strategy, others would join the bandwagon - after all, why not have a little extra per bottle?
Hypothetical scenario, of course. No way for knowing for sure, just speculating.
New Linden village stock in this morning, 440ml four packs and 1ltr bottles instead of 2ltr. Dunnes value lager replaced with a Belgian alternative at 1.38 for 500ml, 3.5% strength I think, only had a fast glance at it before going for lunch so could be mistaken. Few others like San Miguel switching to 6pk smaller cans etc.
had a few guests over in the summer , looking for a radler/shandy beer : to their shock, only a couple of shops had it , and priced as premium beer ...
i told them is costly to remove alcohol from beer , hence the price...
Already happening. Dutch Gold has changed from 4.0% ABV in 50cl cans to 3.5% ABV in 44cl cans to maintain the €5 price-point for four-packs.
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