Exactly. Might as well suggest we ban cars too.
Not the Double IPA. Some of the less strong McGargles might have been around that price sometimes, but I got a few bottles of the Double over Christmas, and it was over €3.
It's the only one of them I drink,I've bought it regularly for the last 8 months in lidl at €1.98,can't comment before that as I wasn't aware of it then.
I was in the day before nye to buy a few,they were €1.98.I was in there a few days ago just doing the normal shopping,out of curiosity I had a look,€3.98.....
Me too, it's the 8% Dan's Double I'm talking about. There are at least two others that look very similar, Francis' Big Banging, something Rosie's, and Session IPA. The last one might be around the €2 mark, but I have never seen Dan's Double in any of my nearby Lidls for around that. Lowest I think I ever saw it, a couple of years back, was four for a tenner.
Edit: just found a receipt from 23 December: €3.79, same as I paid for it today.
Analysis of numerous studies from around the world to see if MUP measures drive drinkers to drugs
The same fact check earlier found that...
Claim: Minimum unit alcohol pricing has been proven to reduce health harms, elsewhere in the world
Verdict: Mostly FALSE
https://www.thejournal.ie/minimum-unit-pricing-alcohol-ireland-facts-2932210-Aug2016/
Can't see how Scotland is even relevant when our MUP is 31% higher. I can't see how our youth drug use doesn't increase. Hopefully not by too much and with minimal damage. But using the example of Scotland, when nobody can truthfully say they have a clue what will happen, is disingenuous.
If Scotland was the only example used you would have a point but its one of several listed
Just as an aside, I found car tyres are cheaper in Newry too. There are several tyre centres in and around the main shopping centres.
That Carlsberg he's doing must be the most travelled beer in the world. I've never seen it in the ROI.
The Public Health (Alcohol) Act, section 23, forbids giving customers alcohol for free on foot of purchasing something else. It's the clause used for banning the use of loyalty points to buy alcohol but it would apply to this also.
TBH, they're not doing that from how that ad reads, if you see it in full you'll see they have a range of items at €47.34; hoover etc, it's up the customer how they spend their credit.
Still don't think you can do it. I had one of those club card spend €25 to get a fiver off before Christmas, and it wouldn't let me use it as my spend wasn't €25 without the alcohol.
With supermarket loyalty points it's also up to the customer how they spend their credit, but there's a ban on customers spending it on alcohol (or tobacco or baby formula or lottery tickets). How is this different?
You can use a voucher for alcohol if, along the line, somebody paid money for the voucher. That makes it the same as money as far as the Act is concerned. It's where the voucher was provided for free as a bonus when you bought something else that it can't be used for alcohol: loyalty points, spend-and-save and the Sam's thing all fall into this category.
It's not a loyalty bonus or a voucher, it's a credit note for a set amount.
Yeah but the €17 'topup' over the value of the purchased item is being provided for free as a bonus when you bought something else.
Exactly. The whole purpose of section 23 is to prevent people getting alcohol for less than the advertised retail price, paid in real money. Sam's hasn't found a way around this.
Just use it to buy the mop then exchange that.
He's going to be on Liveline later apparently.
But the end result of that transaction is identical to using the credit note for the drink in the first place, and therefore still illegal under section 23. It's like suggesting someone under 18 could buy a mop and then swap it for drink to get around age restrictions. It's the end result that counts, not how many mops you got through to get there.
Could a more legal workaround be to give certain free non-alcoholic items with the alcohol? ie spend €30 on a bottle of vodka to get 5 bottles of mixers of your choice for free
If the free bonus items were non alcoholic they wouldn't fall under the legislation?
A friend of mine is dead after being hit by a drunk driver who had been in the pub all night. What's your point caller?
Did you seriously not see the point in that post, or are you deliberately trying to appear thick?
A credit note is neither a loyalty scheme nor a free gift on foot of purchasing something else.
So is what Sam's doing legit?
There was no point. It was an emotional anecdote put forward with the intention to appeal to people with air between their ears. "MUP is good because I'm making a guess that a drink driver drank cheap beer at a BBQ." It's absolute bullshit.
The latter, so.
So what happens if I go in, buy the cups, take the credit note and buy 47 eur worth of groceries.
Seems like an ill thought out plan to me
*Terms and Conditions Apply would probably prohibit this. I'd imagine the credit note has to be spend on a singular item that costs €47.38
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