people were talking of this when MUP was first mentioned. How the breweries etc are not going to let the supermarket profit. I was saying that, especially for small indpendent offies, there is nothing to stop them importing the stuff. When I was younger the local supervalu had foreign heineken 5% alongside Irish stuff, and it was cheaper. You could often find 5% heineken in some offies and some bars that did not have it on tap, who were obviously not playing ball with the official heineken reps/distributors. My small locall offie had stoli vodka long before it was officially released/distributed here, it was the full 40% and cheaper than when the 37.5% stoli was properly released.
If I was a small offie I would be importing cases from germany and selling by the case, word would get out and people would travel to get beers at MUP. You could afford to drop the price if every customer was likely to buy €100+ per visit.
I cannot see a single mainstream beer at MUP in tesco at the moment. Some are saying slabs are a thing of the past, I very much doubt it, come Paddys day I can imagine them having cases at MUP and the smaller packs still above it. Slabs have always had a market as they are simply handy to handle if you want that much. The only tesco beer I see at mup is Manislav Czech Style Lager, brewed in louth and I think it is a Tesco phantom own brand
Like the NI coal warehouse pallet offers, I wonder would any wholesalers or offies up North offer deals on pallets that we could have shipped direct to our door.
Might have to rename this thread to ideas of ways around MUP 😀.
So it seems I picked a really good time to give up the booze.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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
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 can see smaller cans and lower alcohol coming for the 500ml cans and 330ml btls going to 300ml.
RIP cheap booze. I was in tesco last night and they were charging 28 euro for 15 cans!!!!
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.
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
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.
I was gonna say get creative, but it's not costing them any more whether it was bought yesterday or tomorrow, so i dunno..
Good bye cheap booze
You were one of the greats
Well you clearly don’t know how accounting works! 😳
Wouldn't need to as thread already here.
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058183383/booze-deals-nirl-edition#latest
So when is this thread being renamed Booze deals Northern Ireland?:-)
that should see you through till Paddy's day
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.
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 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.
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
Correct, always found it more expensive, hence my curiosity ... was wondering if it could now become less expensive!
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.
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
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 .
Well that's it, fun over for now...
Craft beers will really take off if they stay at the same price imo.
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